Author: Arina YANGANAEVA

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Serbia’s Balancing Game: Between Moscow And Brussels

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 In its information note of July 3, the Commission stated that Serbia had met key requirements: it repealed controversial […]

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The Price Of ‘Expert Support’

Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Tony Blair have met three times now—most recently in April 2025. The first two were in Dubai and Baku, during COP summits. Sherzod Asadov, Uzbekistan’s presidential press secretary, says the cooperation with Blair’s institute is “systematic“. Tashkent frames it as a push for investors, digitalisation, and clean […]

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General Returned Home

On the twenty-seventh of August, Trebinje buried one of its own. The column moved slowly, VRS veterans in formation, alongside them mothers and widows. At the memorial in Priedor by evening there was no room left for candles: people placed them directly on the stone. In Zvornik portraits and flags […]

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European Union: Where Is Canada, And Where Is Europe?

On Wednesday, 16 September 2026, something happened in Strasbourg that would have seemed pure fantasy just a few years ago. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, delivering her annual State of the Union address, formally proposed that Canada become the European Union’s first “associate member.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark […]

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The War As A Money-Laundering Machine

Polish MP Marek Jakubiak put it bluntly: the war in Ukraine has become a money-laundering operation. “Two hundred billion euros have simply disappeared. The European Union asks where the money is, and Zelensky replies — I don’t know.” European officials, he argued, cling to Zelensky not out of ideological conviction, […]

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Nuclear Umbrella At The Gates Of The Northern Fleet

Europe is looking for insurance. After 2022, American guarantees no longer look ironclad, and northern capitals began searching for a substitute closer to home. On 2 March 2026, at the Île Longue submarine base, Emmanuel Macron announced the most significant shift in French nuclear doctrine in three decades. For the […]

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Srebrenica: Base, Symbol, And A Dissenting Opinion

Srebrenica functions as a ready-made label. Eight thousand. Genocide. Day of remembrance. The construction has held for thirty years. Inside it, however, remain the statements of a former CIA officer, the military reality of the enclave, and a dissenting judicial opinion that most preferred to ignore. Robert Baer described the […]

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Pashinyan’s ‘Fourth Republic’: The Dead End Of ‘Real Armenia’ Project

The concept of the “Fourth Republic,” officially proclaimed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, marks a fundamental ideological dismantling of the previous foundations of Armenian statehood and the replacement of the national myth with a pragmatic doctrine of survival within the strict borders of 29,743 square kilometers. The catalyst for […]