Introduction

The year 1997 might not necessarily be engraved in our collective memory as a moment of great historical shift. Some might remember U.S. President Bill Clinton’s second inauguration, or Great Britain handing back Hong Kong to China. But arguably for European geopolitics, 1997 was a year of enormous significance. That was when the foundations for Europe’s future security architecture were effectively laid. NATO not only extended an invitation to Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary to join the Alliance, but also signed the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership with Ukraine, which established the NATO-Ukraine Commission to take cooperation forward. And Russia, for its part, signed the Russian-Ukrainian Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership, which includes the vital 2nd Article, where both neighbors agreed to “respect each other’s territorial integrity.” For a moment, the path of Ukraine and Eastern Europe seemed to be headed toward peace and stability, guaranteed by the greater regional powers.

U subotu, 30. maja u Andrićgradu održan je panel “Narandžasti Balkan” na kome su o delovanju nevladinog sektora i obojenim revolucijama koje prete Balkanu govorili Miroslav Lazanski, Dragomir Anđelković, Branko Radun, Andrej Protić, Milenko Nedelkovski, Dževad Galijašević, Predrag Nikolić i drugi poznavaoci ove teme.

Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war, say those who have been inside. Known as "Kremlin trolls," the men and women work 12-hour shifts around the clock, flooding the Internet with propaganda aimed at stamping President Vladimir Putin's world vision on Russia, and the world.

(Washington, DC) – US Vice President Joe Biden should urge Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucić to take concrete steps to advance human rights protection, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Biden released today. Biden and Vucić will meet this week in Washington, DC.

Rusija ima pravo da postavi nuklearno oružje na svojoj teritoriji ako smatra da joj je to potrebno, a to uključuje i mogućnost stacioniranja na Krimu, saopštilo je Ministarstvo spoljnih poslova Ruske Federacije.

Reports by Atlantic Council and Boris Nemtsov’s allies reveal extent of Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine