Familiar to Vladimir Putin on the Leningrad KGB Vladimir Strzhalkovsky in the 90-ies was engaged in the tourist industry and organization of prostitution. After Putin came to power, he was first in the government, and then in the chair of the general director of Norilsk Nickel. Now the KGB-schnik, together …

Bosnia and Serbia are back in the news. Bosnia’s dysfunctional political system that was forced upon it through the 1995 Dayton Accords, which bifurcated the country into Serb- and jointly Croat- & Muslim-run halves with a rotating presidency between all three under international supervision, is finally breaking down. Meanwhile in …

The Ministries of Defense of Albania, Croatia, and Kosovo have published the full text of the Joint Defense Declaration, which they signed on March 18 in Tirana. “Due to great public interest, we are publishing the Declaration signed on March 18, 2025, in Tirana by the Ministers of Defense of …