After criticising a proposed new defamation law, the EU and US have also condemned a proposed new Bosnian Serb law allowing the entity to designate NGOs as ‘foreign agents’, calling it ‘unacceptable’. The EU and US have criticised plans by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia’s mainly Serb-dominated …

Hungary will always prioritise its shared goals with Serbia over any interest it has in maintaining relations with Kosovo. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s realist and pragmatic approach to international politics and trade was on display last week as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hungary to sign off on …

A Bosnian Serb former martial arts fighter has been posting videos and pictures online, documenting his new life as a volunteer soldier with a Russian unit fighting in Ukraine. BIRN was able to track his posts, following his journey to the frontline. Afew weeks after returning home to Modrica in …

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China for a two-day state visit where he’s set to press Chinese leader Xi Jinping for more support to sustain his country’s sanctions-hit economy and war machine in Ukraine. The May 16-17 visit is Putin’s first foreign trip since he was sworn in for …

By dragging down Germany and thus weakening its influence over Central & Eastern Europe simultaneously with empowering Poland’s rise as a Great Power over that same strategic space, the US hopes to play their EuroLiberal and EuroRealist blocs off against one another in order to perpetually divide and rule the …

Poland is now working hand-in-glove with Germany to turbocharge the latter’s superpower trajectory and especially its military component, which is reshaping European geopolitics and is therefore a development of global importance. Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on Monday after talks with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius that they’re “activating …

Kurdish security forces said that The Scorpion’s arrest was under a warrant issued by the Kurdistan region’s judiciary following a request by Interpol. Security authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq announced that they made a significant breakthrough with the arrest of one of Europe’s most sought-after human traffickers. Barzan …

Hezbollah downed an Israeli spy balloon on Tuesday following the killing of one of its commanders in south Lebanon in a drone strike. A Hezbollah field commander was killed in an Israeli drone strike in south Lebanon on Tuesday night, Israel and the Lebanese group confirmed on Wednesday. In a …

A German-Rwanda-sponsored UN resolution proposing to declare July 11 as International Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs in 1995 sparked protests and a strong lobbying campaign against its adoption by the President of Serbia and the leadership of the Bosnian …

L’attentat de la gare de Bologne le 2 août 1980, qui a impliqué d’innombrables complicités dans les milieux atlantistes et dans les plus hautes sphères du pouvoir italien, fait tomber cet argument naïf des anti-complotistes : jamais un gouvernement n’oserait organiser des attentats contre son propre peuple. Or, l’Italie ne …