Leaders in Belgrade and Pristina are perpetuating distrust by using the issue of the remaining missing persons from the Kosovo conflict for political purposes, ethnic Albanians and Serbs told researcher Nina Kaufmann. During the Kosovo conflict and its aftermath, men, women and children from all communities in Kosovo were forcibly …

Pressure is building for Serbia to strike a deal on Kosovo, but Aleksandar Vucic faces other challenges too in 2023. Russia’s war in Ukraine will continue to cast a long shadow over Serbia well into 2023. Still wrestling with the collective memory of being bombed by NATO in 1999, the …

The Kremlin wants to expand the Russian military by 350,000 men but is constrained by two factors that limit its options. On the one hand, demographically there are only a few more than half as many potential draftees now as there were only a decade ago; and on the other, …