At the end of February, the Kremlin was convinced that, bylate summer, they would have largely conquered and changed Ukraine. That at the end of August teachers in Ukraine wouldbe preparing a new curriculum, which teaches that Russia and Ukraine are one, as Russians and Ukrainians are,…
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un corresponded on the occasion of the North Korean national holiday. They exchanged warm and friendly messages, much more than the sterile messages that statesmen send to each other onimportant dates. Russia and North Korea understand each other very well,…
Churchill and Roosevelt landed on the Crimean airfield during the war, in February 1945, from where they drove to nearby Yalta to negotiate with Stalin about the future of post-war Europe. The airport near Novofedorivka in the Crimea was a…
Russia knows very well that installing some of its military or intelligence bases in Serbia is absolutely impossible, but it raises the topic anyway. They knew very well that Sergey Lavrov could not come to Belgrade, but they kept the…
The Russian central bank has printed a new hundred-ruble banknote, but banks have asked that it not be put into circulation at least until April. The reason is simple, no ATM in Russia can “recognize” the new banknote, because every…
If after several major changes of government in Serbia there is at least one constant, which is passed from hand to hand like a baton, it is the phrase that Serbia’s membership in NATO is “not an issue”. It had…
One of the most famous sentences in literature is “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”, with which Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy starts Anna Karenina novel. The antithesis of today, but also an analogy…
At the beginning of May, about ten days after Putin’s army invaded Ukraine, I fulfilled the request of my Russian friend and made an effort to have one of the European media publish one of his short letters. The influential…
THERE IS NOTNING FOR SERBIA IN RUSSIA, EXCEPT A VAGUE MYTH ABOUT SOME KIND OF BROTHERLY CONNECTION Dragaš: Serbia should flee as far as possible from the perverted concept of the ‘Russian world’ ‘Serbia is not facing any choice;…
It is natural for attitudes to change in international politics, even those that sometimes seem to be set in stone. Even Putin once thought that NATO was a “defense alliance” and that every country had the right to choose the…
