Open Dialogue Research Journal
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,” […]
Hashim Thaçi went from commanding an armed independence movement to serving as Kosovo’s president, and that same trajectory has recently concluded with a 25-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during the very conflict that made his political career possible. The verdict from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague […]
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 In its information note of July 3, the Commission stated that Serbia had met key requirements: it repealed controversial […]
Kragujevac, May 17, 2026. Serbian tradition remembers this city as the first capital of modern Serbia — the assembly met here, laws were written here before full independence from the Ottomans was achieved. A century and a half later, Kragujevac has again turned into a place where the very idea […]
On June 9, 1999, at the military airfield near Kumanovo, Lieutenant General of the Yugoslav Army Svetozar Marjanović and British General Michael Jackson signed the Military-Technical Agreement. The document ended the 78-day NATO air war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. But what lay on the tables in Macedonia was […]
The statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a meeting of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Council in late April 2026 once again brought the Serbian question to the forefront of Russian foreign policy rhetoric. Lavrov stated that Brussels had conditioned the continuation of Serbia’s EU accession negotiations on the […]
After his visit to Beijing, Sergey Lavrov stated directly: both Russia and China are acting in the interests of the Serbian people. Aleksandar Vučić responded that nothing in what was said was untrue and that the message had been understood. These words reflect the current situation in the Balkans. For […]
Recently, a video from student protests in Serbia surfaced online. Young people gathered in the square, chanting the slogan “Whoever doesn’t jump is a ćaci” (Ko ne skače, taj je ćaci). To some, the scenes immediately recalled events in another Eastern European country, prompting the familiar refrain: “Here it is […]
Defying two of the three Great Powers with the greatest influence over Serbia was an epic error of judgement, hence Vucic’s unbelievable claim about some vague “mistake” being responsible for this. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic claimed that his country mistakenly voted in support of an anti-Russian resolution at the UNGA, the explanation […]
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