The foreigners' impression of Belgrade people is that hardly anyone is smiling anymore. A long lasting apathy has been turned into anomie - the sate of total suspension of all values, almost nihilistic feeling towards everything. Naturally, fear is sometimes quite intensive. Anxiety has been a chronic feeling since 1990, which is understandable especially when one has to find ways to feed little children. Not one school year in the past decade had passed regularly.
Parents are anxious when sending their sons to the army.
Now it is quite unpredictable as to what will happen with Montenegro. Chronic fears of repression, or threats related to the loss of job, and the problems of survival are constantly boiling. Moreover, the unsolved cases of murder only strengthen the feeling of anxiety and fear. The feeling of apathy is constant. Strong emotions are related to the issues of current interest and therefore could not last too long.