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Local Ballots, National Battles in Macedonia (Aleksandar Damovski)
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Local Ballots, National Battles in Macedonia (Aleksandar Damovski)

In these local elections, as in the previous ones, the rallies of political parties and the statements of political leaders are dominated by national issues rather than local ones. Macedonia…
October 10, 2025Posted inOpinions
The Threat of Regional Media Blackout in the Western Balkans (Ljubomir Filipović)
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The Threat of Regional Media Blackout in the Western Balkans (Ljubomir Filipović)

In a space marked by weak institutions, unresolved identity issues, and the constant rivalry of authoritarian and democratic impulses, control over the media means control over all social processes. That…
October 8, 2025Posted inOpinions
Case of Moldova: How Russia and Serbia destabilize Southern Europe? (Boris Varga)
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Case of Moldova: How Russia and Serbia destabilize Southern Europe? (Boris Varga)

The undermining of Euro-Atlantic processes in the region does not take place with the help of “soft power,” but mainly through armed force. On the eve of the parliamentary elections,…
September 29, 2025Posted inOpinions
Montenegro, a Champion of Democratic Backsliding (Danilo Kalezic)
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Montenegro, a Champion of Democratic Backsliding (Danilo Kalezic)

Montenegro’s trajectory toward democracy was fundamentally shaped—and constrained—by its dominant party system. For decades, all aspects of political life were marked by the long-standing rule of the DPS. Although the…
September 19, 2025Posted inOpinions
Exit from the crisis in Serbia – fair elections or the “Nepali scenario” (Boris Varga)
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Exit from the crisis in Serbia – fair elections or the “Nepali scenario” (Boris Varga)

The regime in Belgrade fears only a blockade of the state and mass unrest Certainly President Aleksandar Vučić and his entourage closely followed the youth uprising and riots in Nepal,…
September 16, 2025Posted inOpinions
The EU has no solution for the bilateral problems of new members, Bulgaria — Macedonia (Aleksandar Damovski)
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The EU has no solution for the bilateral problems of new members, Bulgaria — Macedonia (Aleksandar Damovski)

The question of European Union enlargement is increasingly being abused, and this is entirely contrary to the basic principles for becoming a new member, namely the Copenhagen criteria. Brussels’ silence…
September 11, 2025Posted inOpinions
Protests in Serbia — as if before a civil war (Boris Varga)
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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, 2025Posted inOpinions
Monument to a World War II War Criminal as Part of a Russian-Serbian Influence Operation (Ljubomir Filipović)
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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, 2025Posted inOpinions
Can Courts Defeat Autocrats? (Boris Varga)
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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, 2025Posted inOpinions
Access to the Sea. How Russia “Punished” Serbia (Vitaliy Portnikov)
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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, 2025Posted inOpinions

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