The adoption of the Law on Freedom of Religion enacted by the Montenegrin Parliament on 27 December 2019 attracted significant media attention across the region and, especially, in Serbia. Coverage mainly focused on provisions related to...
Sweden Unlike other parts of the world, the Russian state-run channel Sputnik didn’t survive long in the Nordic countries. Its only Nordic outlet, in Sweden, lasted less than a year before it shut down. However, Sweden didn’t...
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....
Vladimir Putin’s regime, which has always been authoritarian and kleptocratic, nonetheless has evolved over the course of the last 18 years through four stages and now is entering its fifth and final one, according to Moscow...
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...
At the end of the 19th century, Otto von Bismarck prophesied that “some damn thing in the Balkans” would be the trigger for a broader European war. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand I 1914 proved him...
Inscription of Odesa on the UNESCO World Heritage List In the south-Ukrainian city of Odesa, the preparation of a nomination dossier for the inclusion of the historical center of the city in the UNESCO World Heritage List and the List of...
