If we look at the political turmoil in the Balkans and Serbia and its heartland of Kosovo, some rather gruelling scenes reach us yet again from there. If we look at the political turmoil in the Balkans and Serbia and its heartland of Kosovo (and Metohija), some rather gruelling scenes reach us yet again from…
Serbian Interior Minister reveals that a major foreign agency has been pressing him to change his official stance on Russia and China. Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin made a shocking admission this week, revealing that a major foreign agency has been pressing him to change his official stance on Russia and China. A smear campaign…
The United States has the ability to pursue broad measures to exert pressure on other countries, not only through bilateral relations, but also through controlled international organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank. Although this violates international law, it has become commonplace for practitioners of preventive diplomacy, that is, threats of subsequent punishment that…
After supplying equipment and emboldening a militarized Ukraine, Britain has now started arming Kosovo’s Albanians with Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile systems. The British Embassy in Belgrade said that some Serbian media published fabricated claims of arms exports from the United Kingdom to Kosovo and claimed that there was no truth to those allegations. However,…
The events on the ground and across the diplomatic community involved in the Ukraine conflict are strikingly similar. The former UN Ambassador for the U.S. and first female secretary of state won’t be missed in the Middle East. The link between her legacy in Yugoslavia and Iraq and the Ukraine will not have Gulf oil…
Russia seems to informally understand Serbia’s predicament of coming under unprecedented US-led Western pressure but would still have preferred for its top Balkan partner to have abstained from that resolution against its special military operation in Ukraine instead of voted in its support. Serbian President Vucic explained his country’s surprising support of the recent anti-Russian…
