Everything is proceeding according to the US’ plan, which Vucic might have even secretly agreed to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic recently told German media that his country is eager to clinch large-scale ammo deals with the EU and doesn’t care whether they then pass his country’s wares on to Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to this by claiming that Russia “understands what unprecedented pressure is being put on Serbia” and that the issue is “not at all a simple story”, but nobody should fool themselves into thinking that it’s pleased with the latest development in this saga. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service…
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The political crisis that has unsettled the Republic of Srpska, the Serb entity in Bosnia and Hercegovina that was formed under the terms of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995, continues unabated. The direction it is taking bodes ill for the Serbs who live there and constitutes another diplomatic setback for Russia, which may lose a small but staunch ally in the Balkans. It appears that for the Republic of Srpska the latest political events mark the end of an era. That is certainly true for Milorad Dodik, who has served as the entity’s Prime Minister and President for the…
This portal normally does not deal with religious issues as such, but in special circumstances where religion obviously interacts with geopolitics that rule may be relaxed. Lucas Leiroz was spot on when sounding the alarm about the persecution of the Orthodox Church in the rump Ukraine still under the control of the Kiev regime: “The illegitimate Ukrainian government is conducting an ideological crusade to weaken or eradicate the UOC [Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate], using a combination of legal repression, state propaganda, and direct violence. Churches are forcibly seized, monks are expelled, clergy are prosecuted for ‘collaborating with…
The relentless probing – to use Churchill’s memorable phrase from First World War Salonica Front days – of Russia’s soft Caucasus underbelly continues unabated. This time the direct cause of the manufactured social unrest was the outcome of the elections recently held in Georgia. To nobody’s surprise, the Georgia Dream party of pragmatic Prime Minister Irakli Kobahidze won by an impressive margin, throwing the embittered pro-EU and pro-NATO crowd into a tizzy. They are understandably upset because the current government are strongly opposed to the collective West’s agenda to enlist Georgia (alongside other borderline states such as Armenia and Moldova)…
Three weeks after the tragic public execution of Charlie Kirk, seemingly everything is being done to ensure that no broadly accepted denouement to this appalling crime that would enable closure might emerge. Quite the contrary. By following, with slight variations, the template witnessed in previous high-profile political murders, both successful and attempted, the perpetrators are seeing to it that the crime shall not be dealt with as a regular criminal case but rather as a psychological, mass trauma inducing operation. Could that precisely have been its strategic purpose from the start? The other purpose being, of course, to physically remove…
For as pro-Western as Serbia’s foreign policy course becomes, Russia continues to eschew pressuring it and meddling in its affairs, which sharply contrasts with the West ramping up both unfriendly actions. Serbian European Integration Minister Nemanja Starovic recently said that his country might impose sanctions on Russia if EU membership is “in sight”, defending its hitherto refusal to follow the bloc’s lead on the basis that “the Serbian economy would be affected to a huge extent” while Russia’s wouldn’t. Shortly thereafter, Serbian Prime Minister Duro Macut declared that “I would like to reiterate that as long as I am head of the government, we…
The chronic political crisis in the Republic of Srpska, one of two ethnically-based constituent entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has taken a grave turn for the worse. On 26 February, the illegitimate federal Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, acting under the thumb of the equally illegitimate international “High Representative,” who is actually the colonial governor in the supposedly sovereign country, issued a politically tainted verdict against Milorad Dodik, President of the Republic of Srpska. Dodik had been put on trial on the spurious charge of “defying” the edicts of the High Representative. To no one’s surprise, he was found guilty.…
Or would Serbian Children’s Crusade perhaps be a better description? Since the driving force behind the protests and the bulk of the protesters are university and high school students in their teens and early twenties, supported in many places by equally rebellious elementary school pupils, such a historically connotative description would not seem unwarranted. For the last eight months, formerly submissive Serbia has been putting up stiff resistance to the perceived malfeasance of the ruling regime and its insatiably greedy minions. It all began on 1 November of last year when a concrete canopy at the newly “renovated” railway station…
The month of July is noted for two sad anniversaries, the murder after a show trial of Serbian General Draža Mihailović by the Communist regime of Josip Broz Tito in 1946, and the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918. We share with our readers these moving words of tribute to General Mihailović by Serbian Jovan Dučić. Memory eternal to the victims of Communist terror! We find that in recent months American Serbs have been baptizing their male children with the name of Draža, after the glorious name of the illustrious Colonel Draža…
The Orthodox world was dismayed recently by persistent reports that the ancient St. Catherine’s monastery, located on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, was threatened with the arbitrary revocation of its autonomous status. To widespread alarm, it was alleged that this venerable institution was to be turned by the Egyptian government into a museum and that the religious community who reside there might be evicted. The thought that in our age of presumed inter-faith conviviality a government could perpetrate such an outrage by decree sent shockwaves not just among Orthodox believers but also men of good will of all creeds who…