In two weeks I will go to Novi Sad to Exit. It is the 5th edition of a gathering that started just before the 2000 elections in Serbia with people counting down the days for Milosevic's regime - parties, concerts, video projections. We had something somewhat similar in Bucharest in Piata Universitatii back in 1990, whereas people were protesting about the communists practices and the way of the country was led by Iliescu and his clique. Ultimately the Romanian event was solved by Iliescu by bringing in the miners who beat the protesters up with the tacit support of the authorities. Bucharest was a chaos in those days, I was actually afraid that it could lead to a civil war. Incidentally, these days there are some investigations led, with lots of hopes that Iliescu is to be judged and sentenced for what he did at that time - Cosma, the miners leader at that time was already sentenced and then freed by Iliescu, see the stories: 1 and 2.

In Novi Sad this year there are lots of good musicians lined up and probably will bring in an interesting crowd. I think Exit is one of the most important festivals from around Central Eastern Europe, now that the one from Szeged is helding its last edition this year.