The World

25.January 2024 Index

Conquered Crimea for Putin, Russia sends him to prison

Igor Strelkov Girkin was convicted of calling for extremism. His paramilitary squad was allegedly financed by a Russian oligarch. The Dutch prosecutor's office charged him with the downing of a passenger plane when 298 passengers and crew members died, and as many as 193 people were Dutch citizens.

The war in Ukraine

08.October 2022 S.Ć.

Explosion on the Crimean Bridge: Two road sections collapsed

This morning at around 6 o'clock, a truck exploded, causing seven fuel tanks on a train that was passing through the Crimean Bridge to catch fire. Footage posted on Twitter shows numerous fuel wagons burning on the railway part of the bridge, while part of the bridge is badly damaged. Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the Crimean Bridge in 2018, after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014

Rusija

29.September 2022 JH

Russia: Annexation of four Ukrainian regions already tomorrow

At a ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday, the accession of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to Russia will be signed. From that moment on, Moscow will treat any attack on those occupied territories as an attack on the Russian Federation. The principle is the same as in the case of Crimea

Rusija

18.march 2022 A.I

Side by side with Putin: To victory at any cost

At the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow at the central celebration of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia, Vladimir Putin said that the Russians know what they have to do, how to do it, and that they are ready to pay any price for it. The performance of the Russian president exuded righteous determination

Analyze

10.march 2022 FM/AI

Negotiations in Antalya: Old demands and new accusations

Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine, Sergey Lavrov and Dmytro Kuleba, met on Thursday morning in Antalya. There was no progress. They repeated the previous demands and expanded the list of accusations. Everything is happening at a dangerous speed where all three parties first react and then think about the consequences

Analyze

03.march 2022 Aleksandar Novačić

China between Russia and Ukraine: Waiting for developments

Chinese media reports that "the largest evacuation of Chinese in history" has begun and that around 2500 of its citizens, out of six thousand in Ukraine, have already been transferred to neighboring countries. The evacuation is being carried out with the help of the Ukrainian authorities, which was interpreted in Beijing as another example of good relations between the two countries. But the departure of the Chinese does not encourage hope for a calming of the situation. On the contrary

Analyze

27.February 2022. Momir Turudić

The Russian World: From Tbilisi to Kiev

Currently, the only visible winner of the Ukrainian war is the NATO pact, which, due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has a permanent justification for its existence, which it has been desperately seeking since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Comment

22.February 2022. Andrei Ivanji

The Russian world: The Serbian dream

In full view of the whole world, Putin can play with Ukraine like a cat with a mouse: he can send "peacekeeping troops" to the newly created pro-Russian independent republics and secure a separation border with the rest of Ukraine; can occupy an additional separation band, purely for the sake of order; can establish a land strip between the already formally annexed Crimea and Donbass; can order the invasion of Kiev and establish a pro-Russian regime. And no one can stop him

The World

18.February 2022. M.M

Russia's reaction to the US response to the Russian draft European security agreement: Rejecting the rejected

As Washington continues to accuse Russia of massing troops and preparing to invade Ukraine, the Russians say the US is ignoring Russian concerns about US nuclear weapons in non-nuclear European countries and NATO's eastward expansion, and warn that Ukraine's admission to NATO could lead to conflict. alliance with Russia due to the status of Crimea, which Russia considers closed. Moscow also denies that it planned or plans to invade Ukraine

The World

02.February 2022. JH

Reheating the Cold War: No one is giving in

The world seems to have gotten used to the Cold War rattling of heavy weapons by Russia and the West: it is not abating, but it no longer causes so much attention. After a five-hour conversation with Viktor Orban in Moscow, Vladimir Putin personally repeated the Russian demands, which were automatically rejected. In this game of chess or poker, the long-term security of Europe is at stake

News

29.January 2022 SP

The Balkans and the Ukrainian crisis: Who loves Putin and who is for NATO

The negotiations of the great powers on the situation in and around Ukraine are not yielding results. The bloc's division into "West" and "East" recalls the best days of the Cold War. Consolidation at the NATO and EU level around a unified response to Russia is still ongoing. In an increasingly divided world, Serbia will have to take sides at some point

the world

24.December 2021 M.M

"War, war, war": Putin will respond "adequately" to all "hostile" moves by the West

Vladimir Putin told Joseph Biden that Russia "has nowhere else to retreat", that it "cannot tolerate" that missiles are placed in Ukraine that can detonate in Moscow in ten minutes, and that Russia will respond to all "hostile" moves. adequately" to answer. If there really is a military intervention of Russia in Donbass, the question of interpretation will be whether it "attacked" Ukraine, or "defends the Russian population from aggression." Behind the clanking of arms on the issue of Ukraine, however, there is something else that is subject to negotiations