April, 2023

• 8 April

  Counting Vučić and SNS members

  

  Counting sheep was the best traditional natural recipe found to get you to sleep if you can’t sleep. They say that shepherds in medieval Britain still counted sheep, counted, counted, every time they went to sleep, and that’s how they finally got to SNA. In modern Serbia, with a similar …

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• 8 April

  Surviving Contact with the Enemy: The UK’s Economic Crime Plan (2023–2026)

  

  The UK government’s second Economic Crime Plan is welcome, but do enforcement agencies have the arsenal to deliver? When the UK government’s first ever whole-of-government plan for tackling the myriad harms of economic crime to the UK wrapped up in July 2022, we gave its impact a mixed scorecard. Although …

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• 8 April

  POLISH AGRICULTURE MINISTER FALLS ON SWORD AS ZELENSKY VISITS POLAND

  

  The resignation of Henryk Kowalczyk was seen as a political cost PiS had to pay to appease farmers angry at the flood of Ukrainian grain into the country and to enable the first state visit of Ukraine’s president to pass off smoothly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid his first state …

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• 8 April

  DEMOCRACY DIGEST: FRIENDS OF ZEMAN BENEFIT FROM SWANKY VILLAS AT RIDICULOUS RENTS

  

  In other news, plans are in the works for Hungarian PM to visit Ukraine; Slovakia’s National Security Authority claims acting interior minister illegally accessed classified EU and NATO documents; and Poland gets 2 new ministers. Rental housing prices in the Czech Republic have risen dramatically over recent years, driven higher …

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• 8 April

  The longest and bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine: Why is Bahmut so important?

  

  The battle for Bakhmut has already become the longest and bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine. Losses are high – on both sides, and the outcome is still uncertain. Why is Bahmut so important? Before this war, hardly anyone had heard of Bahmut, a small town of seventy thousand …

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• 8 April

  INTERVIEW Nenad Canak: I absolutely understand the need to replace Đukanović after 33 years in power, but…

  

  I am not very familiar with the actions of the newly elected President of Montenegro. I only know that he was elected to the apostolic government of Zdravko Krivokapić on the recommendation, to put it mildly, of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral. Which already makes me doubt the …

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• 8 April

  Vučić on elections: Belgrade elections when Đilas calls for them

  

  The elections will take place when they ask me to, said the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, answering the question of when the elections will be held in Serbia. Vučić pointed out that Dragan Đilas will win the holding of the Belgrade elections and not only him, but others who …

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• 8 April

  America and China Need to Talk

  

  A Lack of Dialogue, Visits, and Exchanges Is Raising the Risk of Conflict Relations between the United States and China have fallen to their darkest depths since the early 1970s, when U.S. President Richard Nixon met with Chinese leader Mao Zedong (and Nixon’s national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, met with …

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• 8 April

  Russia Is Winning in Georgia

  

  America Needs to Get Tough on Tbilisi As the United States and its NATO allies are focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Russia’s efforts to bring another country into its orbit has gone largely unnoticed. Like many countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, Georgia …

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• 8 April

  CIA’s Nord Stream Story Absurd: Seymour Hersh

  

  According to veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, the mainstream media’s yarn about a pro-Ukrainian group that chartered a yacht named Andromeda to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines was so absurd and childish that one would suspect it was made intentionally to reinforce the truth. On April 5, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour …

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