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Western Balkans Overview Aug 30, 2025 – CWBS

Early Presidential Elections in Republika Srpska Announced On August 28, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced early elections for the president of Republika Srpska (RS) for…

August 30, 2025Reports

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Relations between Montenegro and Croatia and the destructive influence of pro-Serb politicians

Introduction On 4 August 2025, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs sent a note of protest to Montenegro. The occasion was the issuance of a new series of…

August 26, 2025Articles

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Kosovo at a Deadlock

After Months of Deliberation, Kosovo’s Parliament Speaker Seat Remains Empty. Since Vjosa Osmani called the constitutive session of the Assembly on April 15th, Kosovo’s Parliament has attempted and failed the…

August 25, 2025Articles

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Western Balkans Overview Aug 22, 2025 – CWBS

Dodik Lost the Mandate of President but Does Not Agree with This Decision The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 18 August rejected an appeal against the decision of the…

August 22, 2025Reports

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Protests in Serbia — as if before a civil war (Boris Varga)

Police defends the Serbian Progressive Party and their activists — this is the last phase of the protest, whose dynamics are rapidly changing from day to day. The protests became…

August 21, 2025Opinions

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Western Balkans Overview Aug 14, 2025 – CWBS

Escalation of Violence at Protests in Serbia On 13 August, during the protest action “Serbia, wake up” in several cities in Serbia, clashes occurred between anti-government protesters, mostly young people,…

August 15, 2025Reports

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Monument to a World War II War Criminal as Part of a Russian-Serbian Influence Operation (Ljubomir Filipović)

On August 7, 2025, in the village of Gornje Zaostro, Berane municipality, in northern Montenegro, a monument to Pavle Đurišić, commander of the Chetnik movement in Montenegro during World War…

August 13, 2025Opinions

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Can Courts Defeat Autocrats? (Boris Varga)

The Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime of Serbia has taken an important step toward fulfilling the primary demand of the students that sparked the months-long protests. On August 1, two…

August 12, 2025Opinions

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Expansion of Chinese Influence in the Western Balkans

Introduction Since the founding of the global "Belt and Road" initiative in 2013, the People’s Republic of China has gradually expanded the scope of its presence in the Western Balkans.…

August 11, 2025Articles

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Access to the Sea. How Russia “Punished” Serbia (Vitaliy Portnikov)

The beginning of the 2000s. Under pressure from popular protests, Slobodan Milošević’s regime yields power to opposition politicians. The President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, who in recent years had conflicted…

August 6, 2025Opinions