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Serbia is free to sit close to Moscow. The question this week is why Brussels and Washington keep holding the other chair out for it, on the same terms, after everything they have watched. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs Desk) On Saturday 26 September Aleksandar Vučić telephoned Vladimir Putin about the Gazprom supply annex …
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Russia’s Belgrade embassy has grown from 54 to 78 diplomats since the invasion while every neighbour cut theirs. The operations it is linked to targeted the accessions of Montenegro, North Macedonia and Bosnia and the status of Kosovo. Albania borders three of the four. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs Desk) Albania’s diplomatic list carries …
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The Hague sentenced four commanders for what was done to prisoners. It refused to find that the KLA made war on a people. by Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs Desk) Aleksandar Vučić waited until 18:30 to say it, and then he said it plainly. The chamber in The Hague did not find, beyond reasonable doubt, …
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Belgrade buried a general, Brussels defined a funeral, and a foreign minister explained that everyone is guilty. Tirana is in the audience. Ngadhnjim Brovina, Regional Affairs Belgrade buried a general, Brussels defined a funeral, and a foreign minister explained that everyone is guilty. Tirana is in the audience. There was no decree. That became …
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Marta Kos cited a final judgment. Vučić called her explanation stupid and answered as if Serbia still gets to decide what The Hague already did. Ngadhnjim Brovina (Regional Affairs desk) Aleksandar Vučić called Marta Kos’s explanation stupid. Not Kos; the explanation. “The explanation was extremely short, but stupid, as usual,” he told reporters on …
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Sputnik Srbija has told its readers how to hear the EU’s new ambassador before he has said anything. Belgrade tested the method on KFOR’s commander three weeks ago; the platform is one Brussels asked it to close. by Ardit Rada (Tirana) Sputnik Srbija does not load in Kosovo. It loads in Tirana, in Serbian, …
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Friedrich Merz says the people behind Leipzig will pay. A Serbian court has already convicted Serbian nationals for an operation in Berlin directed by Russian intelligence. Germany’s most indulged Balkan partner remains the exception. By Drizan Shala (Security Desk) On 31 August the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Subotica, near the Hungarian border, issued …
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Europe can impose costs. Serbia has learned what raises them. Albania has not learned what happens to an applicant that never does. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) On the afternoon of 1 September, at a press conference in Berlin, Germany’s interior minister stated the grounds on which the Federal Republic held Russia responsible for the …
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Jasmin Mujanović mapped a region’s contradictions. Read backwards, they form something more dangerous: a method the world has seen before. By Ngadhnjim Brovina (Prishtina) On Friday the political scientist Jasmin Mujanović compressed the diplomacy of three theatres into a single post on X. We reproduce it in full, because its method is accumulation and …
