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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
Russian training camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina are a threat to the security of the Western Balkans (Nino Bilajac)
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Russian training camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina are a threat to the security of the Western Balkans (Nino Bilajac)

The research on Russian camps in the Balkans, jointly published by BIRN and the Moldovan research center CU SENS, opens up space for a much broader reflection on the role…
July 31, 2025Posted inOpinions
It is impossible to beat Vucić in the elections (Boris Varga)
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It is impossible to beat Vucić in the elections (Boris Varga)

After the defeat of the opposition in the local elections and the regime's refusal to call general elections, the students called for a new stage of protest - civil disobedience.…
July 8, 2025Posted inOpinions
The Tactical Shift of Montenegro’s Pro-Russian Serb Nationalists (Ljubomir Filipović)
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The Tactical Shift of Montenegro’s Pro-Russian Serb Nationalists (Ljubomir Filipović)

When Andrija Mandić, Speaker of Montenegro’s Parliament and long-time Kremlin sympathizer, embraced Russia’s newly appointed ambassador in Podgorica, it was not just a warm diplomatic gesture. It was a moment…
July 7, 2025Posted inOpinions
Will the EU close the doors to Serbia because of Vucic’s departure to Moscow? (Boris Varga)
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Will the EU close the doors to Serbia because of Vucic’s departure to Moscow? (Boris Varga)

It is a two-faced dance between the EU, which would not integrate Serbia even if it were a fully democratic state, and the Serbian president, who is aware of this…
May 28, 2025Posted inOpinions
How Serbia Killed Anti-Fascism with the Help of Russia (Dragan Bursać)
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How Serbia Killed Anti-Fascism with the Help of Russia (Dragan Bursać)

Introduction: „So today Vučić and his Dikovics tell fairy tales about the partisans in 1918, while forgetting those of 1945. They talk about victories that did not happen, and remain…
May 20, 2025Posted inOpinions
Is Ukraine losing Montenegro? (Ljubomir Filipović)
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Is Ukraine losing Montenegro? (Ljubomir Filipović)

Relations between Montenegro and Ukraine have a shorter history, but in the contemporary political moment they have gained importance that goes beyond bilateral frameworks. After Montenegro regained its independence in…
May 18, 2025Posted inOpinions
Russia’s Proxy on the Western Balkans (Balsa Bozovic)
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Russia’s Proxy on the Western Balkans (Balsa Bozovic)

Each year on 9 May, the Russian regime commemorates Victory Day in the Second World War. The military parade traditionally held on this occasion has long served not only to…
May 13, 2025Posted inOpinions
Dodik, Porfirije and Putin’s school of subversion (Dragan Bursać)
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Dodik, Porfirije and Putin’s school of subversion (Dragan Bursać)

Don't ask if there will be a war. It's already here. It doesn't smell like gunpowder, but like incense and petroleum. And while the Patriarch kisses the Moscow throne And…
April 29, 2025Posted inOpinions

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