Ever-closer cooperation with Baku has the potential to relieve the Balkan states’ worryingly high levels of energy dependence on Moscow. Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, visited two Balkan countries one week apart in November this year. During the first trip, to Albania, it was decided to establish an Azerbaijani diplomatic mission. …

Thousands of migrants are trapped in Slovakia as the Czechs prevent them from crossing into their territory, while Hungary refuses to take back those that crossed from there into Slovakia. The government is struggling to come up with a solution. On the balcony of one of several blocks of flats …

Заедно можем повече, отколкото поотделно Добрата новина в лошата е, че заедно не ни пуснаха в Шенген с Румъния. Ако само България бе останала нищо чудно да ни бяха изхвърлили изобщо от ЕС. И без това ни редят в нещо като Б група, но ако бяхме само ние щеше да …

Kroatien soll zum Schengen-Raum dazugehören, Rumänien und Bulgarien aber nicht. Wären Menschenrechte das Kriterium, dann sähe es auch für Kroatien düster aus. Die Freizügigkeit ist eine der wichtigsten Errungenschaften der Europäischen Union (EU). Wer will, dass Europa enger zusammenwächst, kann es deswegen nur begrüßen, wenn der Schengen-Raum erweitert wird, in …

2022 will go down in history as a watershed moment in EU-Russia relations. The invasion of Ukraine was a primary cause, but it may well be that future historians will agree that the breakdown of bilateral ties was long in the making. With Russia intent on rebuilding its territorial empire through brutal, …

Reports last month that Ramzan Kadyrov was organizing a military force based on the Batal-Haji wird of a Sufi order for use in Ukraine were disturbing enough given that the Chechen leader was doing so on under the terms of Putin’s mobilization order  (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/11/russian-officials-accuse-influential.html). But now an Ingush human rights activist …

Witnesses told the Hague Tribunal that the notorious Scorpions unit was controlled by the Serbian Interior Ministry during the Yugoslav wars. Can an in-depth analysis of the court’s archives establish the truth? Material in the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY indicates that the Scorpions …

Why America’s Allies Are Flirting With Russia and China

Why Ukraine Should Not Rush to Retake the Peninsula Ukraine’s liberation of the city of Kherson at the beginning of November was more than just a dramatic military victory. In its battlefield win, Ukraine called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bluff. Just two months earlier, Putin had publicly declared Kherson and …

The top Turkish diplomat aired a rare complaint over the Russian stalling of constitutional talks between the warring Syrian actors, calling on Moscow to allow the process to resume. A high-level Russian diplomatic delegation is heading to Turkey on Thursday for talks amid repeated Turkish threats of a new ground …