Snap elections called by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will stall a long-awaited agreement between Russia and Serbia on the status of the four-year-old Russian-humanitarian operations now based near Nis Airport.
The man who brought Orthodox Christianity’s Holy Fire from Israel to Belgrade last Easter is reportedly interested in acquiring a Serbian television outlet, and the local media scene is abuzz with the idea.
Two members of the opposition Democratic Front (DF), which has boycotted sessions of the Parliament to protest the country’s aims to join NATO, got support from some high officials in Russia’s Duma on a recent trip to Moscow.
Western sanctions don’t play a decisive role in determining trends in the Russian economy and have little effect on Kremlin decisions, said Sergey Aleksashenko, former deputy chairman of the Russia’s Central Bank.
An official of the newly elected Croatian government lit a powder keg when he proposed creating a registry of people who "betray" nationalist values.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin met in Belgrade and Rogozin has promised to review Serbian requests for weapons to boost its military capacity, the men said at a joint press conference.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says Belgrade must resolve the disputes between Kosovo and Serbia, but not due to pressure from the European Union.
Montenegro was invited to join NATO earlier this month, a long-time goal of Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic who gave an interview to RFE this week on a wide array of topics, including his tenure, his opposition and what he sees ahead for the country.
Montenegro is a small country with a small army of about 2,000 soldiers. But its invitation to join NATO sends a strong message to Moscow that Russian cannot divide Europe into spheres of influence.
Montenegro's Western-leaning government hopes NATO will offer it membership in December. But pro-Russian parties are seeking to sabotage the prospect with street protests.
RFE/RL asked Kurt Volker, an expert in foreign and security issues and a former career foreign service employee, to get his views of ISIS and Europe after vicious terrorist attacks in Paris.
eligious and ethnic divisions that fed war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the breakup of Yugoslavia still haunt the country 20 years after the war ended with the Dayton Accords, and that very agreement that led to the end of the war is a key cause, says Edward P. Joseph.
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