Balkans

Round one was in 2023, round two will be in 2024, warned today Ivana Stradner, research associate of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy from Washington, pointing out, once again, the tightening of conditions in the Balkans. Just as Putin denied Russia’s intention to attack Ukraine, the president of …

Syria TV says the Romanian intelligence chief delivered a joint message from Romania, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy. A European diplomatic source informed Syria TV on Wednesday that the Romanian intelligence chief recently met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian intelligence director Hossam Luka in Syria. According to the source, …

Sad, insulting, arrogant, partisan – this is how our interlocutors describe the rally “Serbia is calling you” organized on Thursday in Banja Luka, as a sign of opposition to the adoption of the Resolution on Srebrenica in the United Nations General Assembly. At the invitation of the SNSD, Milorad Dodik’s …

Once celebrated as a prime sanctuary for foreign investments in the Mediterranean, Turkish Cyprus has come under fire for allowing Israeli entities to purchase large swathes of property on the strategically significant island. ter obtained TRNC citizenship, have the right to unlimited property acquisition because they are officially registered as …

History is full of manipulations, half-truths and mythical claims. The most popular of them are, for example, the claim that United Kingdom alone fought against Nazi Germany in 1940 (in reality it had a huge colonial empire), the opinion that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute while sources say otherwise, Vikings …

There are two full-blown wars going on now. Both started much earlier but both broke out into hot wars recently. The Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, the Palestine-Israel war in 2023. The first, as a result of US-EU provocations in Ukraine, intent on pushing Russia to defend Russian Ukrainians in eastern …

Serbia recorded the biggest drop in results in the Freedom House report “Nations in Transition 2023”, which covers 29 European and Asian countries. Freedom House states that Serbia experienced a historic decline due to the efforts of President Aleksandar Vučić to consolidate power in 2023. “Two consecutive mass murders in …

In addition to the lack of political will on the part of Kosovo and Serbia to implement the agreement reached in the dialogue, analysts believe that Brussels has also proved unable to push forward the level of achievement agreed upon in the Brussels-Ohrid Agreement. In the absence of progress in …

Twenty-five years after the start of NATO’s air strikes on Yugoslavia, no exact casualty figures have ever been established and no official comprehensive list of all the civilian victims’ names exists – allowing the death toll to be manipulated by politicians. On March 24 last year, in his speech at …

The 1994 Washington Agreement ended fighting between Bosniak and Croat forces, but in the historic city of Mostar, people’s everyday lives and the local political scene are still troubled by the legacy of the wartime past. Only a few passers-by are to be seen early in the morning on what’s …