How Serbia went crazy for fortune telling in the 1990s
From Vlach magic to Kleopatra, Serbia in the 1990s was a great place to be a charlatan. Or was it all just performance art? Daytime television in Serbia is today dominated by much the same fare as in the rest of the world: kitsch talk shows, reality programmes, infomercials. But in the 1990s it was a very different story. Back then, the daytime (and at times, the prime-time) airwaves were the site of a strange phenomenon that took the country (and to an extent, the entire Western Balkans region) by storm — a slew of televised oracles and prophets offering succour to masses traumatised first...
Source: emerging-europe.com