Open Dialogue Research Journal
The third Russia–Africa Summit has just wrapped up in Gostiny Dvor and the Grand Kremlin Palace. Forty-eight delegations. Twenty-two heads of state. A final declaration, an Action Plan for 2027–2029, and a separate document on the civilian use of artificial intelligence. If in 2019 in Sochi the two sides were […]
The synchronicity with which Joey Mannarino, Valentina Gomez, Javier Negre and Weronika Rogowska suddenly started speaking is hard to miss. These were not isolated comments about Serbia. The same set of talking points, nearly identical formulations, the same framing: the Student List is a leaderless construct; the protests involve “Bosnian […]
Serbia has reached a point where the familiar order is no longer working. More than twelve years of dominance by the Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić ended with his own acknowledgment of defeat. According to the preliminary count, the “Student List” has secured an absolute majority in parliament with […]
While Steve Witkoff flies to St. Petersburg and offers Putin a three-way summit with Trump and Zelensky, Brussels is already counting who will speak to the Kremlin. If Europe ends up outside the room again, it will be left only to pay for someone else’s peace. Politico puts it bluntly: […]
Tomorrow, October 23, Hungary marks the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution. While official commemorations focus on that date, the intellectual catalyst occurred a day earlier. On October 22, students at the Budapest Technical University gathered to draft the famous Sixteen Points. Their demands were clear: the withdrawal of Soviet […]
Aleksandar Vučić gave an interview to Ksenia Sobchak in a strange position. He is no longer president, but not yet prime minister. The constitution does not allow a third presidential term—that is the whole reason for the “swap.” Putin, during their last conversation, did not ask “why are you leaving,” […]
On 8 October Kirill Budanov spent about twenty hours in the Bulgarian capital. His meeting with Prime Minister Rumen Radev stayed confidential at Budanov’s request. The next day former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov posted a photo of the two of them. The government had to admit it. On 14 October […]
In early October 2026, 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, died in Russia’s Irkutsk Region. The official wording from Rospotrebnadzor was pneumonia of undetermined etiology. No microorganisms linked to her professional activities were found in the samples. Two commissions […]
On October 1, 2026, Putin spoke at the 23rd Valdai meeting for almost three and a half hours. The official theme was “Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible, or Limitless Possibilities?” In reality it was not a philosophical discussion about the future. It was a cold, precise snapshot […]
The European Commission for the sixth time since December 2021 issued a recommendation to open negotiating Cluster 3 for Serbia, covering competitiveness, inclusive growth, and access to the EU single market. In its information note of July 3, the Commission stated that Serbia had met key requirements: it repealed controversial […]
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