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Moldova’s Pro-Russian President under Pressure in Re-Run of 2016 Election

Moldovan President Igor Dodon has a fight on his hands for a second term in an election that offers voters a familiar choice. Moldova’s presidential election on November 1 is shaping up to be a re-run of the previous poll in 2016, only this time the outcome might be different.

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Under Cossack Banner, Russian Ties with Balkan Fighters Strengthened

Russian Cossack groups are building ties with Serbs in the Balkans. But are they just promoting Russia, or finding fighters for it too? A few days before the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1993, a group of around 50 men approached the country’s border and requested passage.

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Marcos and Soldado: Colombian Shootout Sheds Light on Balkan Drug Ties

Seventy-one days after Dejan Stanimirovic was found at a roadside in Colombia, bleeding from a gunshot wound to his face, the remains of the 45-year-old Serb were interred in Villavicencio’s crumbling Central Cemetery, where headstones sink into the ground and colonial-style architecture decays at the hands of the city’s tropical …

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