The war in Ukraine

06.march 2022 SP

European sanctions against Russia: Business opportunity for Air Serbia

While Moscow cannot be reached from other parts of continental Europe, Serbia has increased the number of direct flights to that destination by almost half. By coincidence, Air Serbia became competitive with the world's largest air carriers. Considering the company's past losses, it is not certain that it will make any money

Overview of the week

04.march 2022 Philip Schwarm

Russia is not Putin: Justice for the Russian people

Just as Serbia was never Slobodan Milosevic, neither is Russia Vladimir Putin. She is on the streets and in the newsrooms of independent media. And those who defend the Russian invasion in Serbia are not real Russophiles, but Putinophiles. They have nothing to do with real Russian culture. Kandinsky, Malevich, Platonov, Stravinsky mean nothing to them. They are much closer to the rulers of the Romanov dynasty, Rasputin or Stalin

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

Comment

28.February 2022. Teofil Pančić

Demarcation line: What saves the Russian soul

As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the director of the Meyerhold Center State Theater in Moscow, Elena Kovalskaya, resigned. And she reasoned with one sentence, just once, because everything important is contained in it, in those few words, and everything that would dilute things like a villain was omitted from it as a surplus: "It is impossible to work for a murderer and be paid by him."

The war in Ukraine

25.February 2022. M.M

Anti-war demonstrations in Russia: Geopolitics aside, remember Shisela and Smirela

More than 100 local deputies from 44 Russian cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, signed an open letter "unreservedly" condemning the "special military operation" in Ukraine, which is an "unparalleled crime" that cannot be justified ". During anti-war demonstrations across Russia on Thursday, 1.705 people were arrested

Eastern crisis

21.February 2022. M.M

Russia's advance: Putin recognized two republics in Donbass

On Monday, February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Decree on the Recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DNR and LNR) and requested that the Russian Duma ratify those documents. At the same time, he signed agreements on military cooperation and mutual assistance with those two republics

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

Analyze

28.January 2022 Milan Milošević

Waiting for Putin's answer: Demonstration but not the use of force

America has not accepted Russian demands to limit the expansion of NATO to the east and is proposing negotiations on the deployment of short- and medium-range missiles. Russia is not satisfied with that answer. Tensions between Russia and the West are not abating, and the expected next moves of both sides speak in favor of deepening the crisis.

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