Vladimir Putin received a standing ovation from thousands of his supporters a year ago at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. He addressed them wearing a jacket that cost between ten and twelve thousand euros. A year later, at the beginning of this…
Russia is doing a great service to Serbia, helping it to make important decisions at the end of Kosovo negotiations. When the difficult and complicated talks about Kosovo are over, with compromise and equal dissatisfaction of both Belgrade and Pristina,…
The acceleration of the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina in the past year happened because the United States got involved more actively than before. Being the most powerful country in the world shook things up. But the US accelerated the…
If the current draft agreement between Belgrade and Pristina becomes a “legally binding document”, it will not remove the issue of Kosovo as one of the most important on our political scene overnight. It will take years to implement what…
A large part of the troubles that Serbia is facing today in finding a solution to the issue of Kosovo arises from a long-standing blind belief that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 is some sort of solid anchor that holds…
RUSSIA NEEDS A MILITARISED SERBIA Security and international relations expert from Belgrade Dr Orhan Dragaš talks about why Russia is responsible for the mired in corruption Balkans Dr Orhan Dragaš is a security and international relations expert from Belgrade. He…
When prison sentences for dogs of war were introduced eight years ago, for the most part it was about preventing the recruitment of Islamic extremists for the wars in the Middle East on the side of ISIS. But it will…
RUSSIA WANTS, AND IS WORKING ON – AN EXPLOSION IN KOSOVO AND BIH! The latest escalation in the north of Kosovo, as well as the latest complication of political relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after last month’s signs of stabilisation…
Events in the world have long since become difficult to predict. Not because secrets are better kept, on the contrary, secrets have been leaking more than ever, but because the world is more connected than before. Something unexpected could happen…
In making plans for aggression against Ukraine, Russia had to calculate the direct and indirect economic damage it would have to bear in response to its war effort. Assuming that such calculations were made, which any responsible country would do,…
