Serbian President Vucic called the novel "The Brothers Karamazov" the best work in the world.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov" the best work of world literature, commenting on student protests in the country. He stated this in an interview with Informer TV on July 12.

"Dostoevsky in The Demons describes exactly this in the most accurate way. I don't even know how to retell Dostoevsky, although I've read almost everything twice — the Brothers Karamazov even three times. For me, this is the best work of world literature — better, deeper, stronger than Crime and Punishment," Vucic said.

Using the example of Dostoevsky's novel "Demons", the Serbian President also spoke about the mechanism of protests, abuses, new values and ideologies.

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Earlier, on July 4, Vucic called on protesting students and opposition supporters to abandon plans to lay siege to several cities, including Belgrade, warning that otherwise the authorities would be forced to take counter measures. According to the Serbian president, the actions of the protesters contradict the law on traffic safety and the constitutional norms of freedom of movement.