Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence of its use by the Kremlin in its wars in Ukraine and Syria and the company’s increasing use of criminals rather...
“Serbia is not doing enough to solve this issue,” Ukraine’s ambassador to Serbia, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, says, of the phenomenon of Serbs traveling to Ukraine and fighting on the side of pro-Russian forces in the east. Kyiv has...
They give their greetings without relinquishing their weapons: “To the Prime Minister and government of Serbia. From your Russian Brothers.” “A big hello to the Prime Minister of Serbia, thank you for all these many fighters, who...
Former Ambassador of Montenegro to NATO, Professor of Practical Diplomacy and International Relations of Boston University Vesco Garchevic believes that through these exercises Russia tried to show the West that it has become stronger...
The first serious clashes between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Yugoslav authorities began back in January 1998. The conflict was accompanied by a large number of civilian casualties, which ultimately led to foreign...
We have written before about Russia’s destructive influence growing in the Balkans and the Russian links of those suspected in organizing the coup in Montenegro. Nonetheless and much to Moscow’s dismay, Montenegro officially...
Montenegrin authorities issued a travel ban for 149 citizens of Russia and Ukraine who are connected to the annexation of Crimea and military conflict in Donbas, according to the newspaper Pobjeda, RFE/RL’s Russian service reported....
On March 19-21, an international parliamentary delegation that included members of the Serbian Radical Party of Vojislav Seselj, illegally visited the occupied Crimea. This is not the first time that Serbian radicals showed their special...
The Russian economy is small relative to that of Europe or the United States. It military is hardly capable of competing with NATO. But “the Kremlin has a secret weapon which no one else in the world has: enormous criminal financial...
Another quite serious escalation may happen in the Balkans. This is an opinion shared by several European and Ukrainian experts in connection with the statements made by the senior leadership of the Serb republic (Republika Srpska), a...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
