Serbia

Serbia’s schadenfreude will be on display as the national team seeks revenge against a rival stacked with stars of Kosovar heritage.

Brinkmanship over Kosovo, footsie with Moscow, and friction with Brussels are par for the course for Belgrade.

Belgrade’s purchase of FK-3 air defense systems from Beijing marks a shift in Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s diplomatic and defense policy.

The Serbian president’s anti-Western propaganda is coming back to haunt him.

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Overcoming hateful ideologies is never easy, but it’s much more difficult when denialism and bigotry are actively encouraged from the very top, as is the case in Belgrade. 

Aleksandar Vucic’s authoritarian government is aiding Russian and Chinese propaganda and allowing genocide denialists to celebrate war criminals.

The Kremlin is destabilizing Bosnia and Herzegovina in pursuit of broader strategic goals.

Belgrade is vital to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. But as China takes over old industrial sites, Serbian citizens are suffering the environmental consequences.

“Quo Vadis, Aida?” could do for the Srebrenica massacre what “Schindler’s List” accomplished for the Holocaust.

Citizens hungry for information turned to the media during the pandemic, but governments around the world used the crisis to restrict journalists.

Fixing Trump’s mistakes in the region will be easy. Avoiding Obama’s will be much harder.

An interview with Kosovo’s prime minister, how Myanmar can avoid a public health disaster in the conflict-torn state of Rakhine, and the case for reassessing Voltaire’s legacy.

As two days of talks between Serbia and Kosovo begin at the White House, Kosovo’s prime minister says Serbia’s got to finally recognize his country—or risk both their futures in the EU.

Russian and Chinese influence in Serbia is growing. The EU needs to step up its game to avoid being sidelined.

Serbia’s president consolidates his control as Belgrade edges toward autocracy.

Aspiring authoritarians are sick of the liberal order and eager for new patrons in Russia and China.