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Turkey in the Balkans: a march westward

10:31 30.06.2020 Andrey Isayev

Turkey in the Balkans: a march westward

The Balkan Region is becoming attractive for a wide spectrum of foreign players – from Beijing to Washington, and from Brussels to Riyadh. Also, it presents considerable interest for Ankara.For Turkey, the Balkan Region Регион is important historically, culturally, politically and economically, playing the role of a “bridge” into Europe. …

Stevan Gajić: events in Montenegro are not a matter for Serbs alone

12:08 07.04.2020 Yelizaveta Belousova

Stevan Gajić: events in Montenegro are not a matter for Serbs alone

Relations between the Russian Federation and Montenegro are at low ebb with the former Yugoslav republic now finding itself in the most non-constructive segment of the North Atlantic alliance, together with Poland and the Baltic countries. The two countries disagree on various things, but the main points of contention are …

Republika Srpska preparing BREXIT

11:30 25.02.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

Republika Srpska preparing BREXIT

The precedence of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union naturally allows other European organizations and individual countries to contemplate the previously inconceivable exit option. While at the EU level there are no indications of any other member states planning to follow in London’s footsteps any time soon, in the …

US is militarizing Europe

12:35 31.01.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

US is militarizing Europe

While pushing its NATO allies in Europe to increase their spending on joint defense, the United States is simultaneously moving its own troops to Europe. According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, there are a record number of US troops, not seen there since the start of this century, currently …

Serbs do not want to join NATO

17:40 27.01.2020 Pyotr Iskenderov

Serbs do not want to join NATO

The leaders of Serbia and the Bosnian Republika Srpska have signaled their intention to maintain military neutrality and refrain from joining NATO. A statement to this effect was made amid the aggravation of the political crisis in Montenegro following the coming into force of the law on the freedom of …

Crossroads or a dead end: do Germany and Europe face a triumph of indecision?

11:58 09.12.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Crossroads or a dead end: do Germany and Europe face a triumph of indecision?

In late November, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a number of rather controversial statements. On November 26, Germany, together with France, issued a brief “road map” for EU reform. Within the next two ears this plan is to be discussed by the “Conference on the Future of Europe,” tasked with …

EU to mount decisive summit on Kosovo

12:29 06.10.2019 Pyotr Iskenderov

EU to mount decisive summit on Kosovo

The European Union is planning to hold an important summit on Kosovo in October this year with a view to get Belgrade and Pristina to normalize bilateral relations. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pose as guarantors of the deal. Reports say a senior US official …

NATO’s “space strategy” – what is it all about?

13:30 02.08.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

NATO’s “space strategy” – what is it all about?

In a Twitter post released in June 2019, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the North Atlantic Alliance planned to develop its own “space strategy.” According to Deutsche Welle, NATO experts are certain that future military conflicts will inevitably affect near-Earth space, “for example, through an attack on satellites …

20 years of NATO operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

13:19 26.04.2019 Yanina Korotkova

20 years of NATO operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Will Germany end up as NATO’s “weak link”?

10:46 24.04.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Will Germany end up as NATO’s “weak link”?

In a series of recent comments in US and British media, their authors appear increasingly alarmed by the prospects of maintaining the unity of NATO and, on a broader scale, of the West as a whole. Not as a result of US President Donald Trump’s “subversive” actions many Western media …

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