Nikola Mikovic is a Serbian freelance journalist whose work has been published around the world. He covers Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and political developments in the Balkans.Previously, Nikola was a reporter at the Politika daily newspaper, the oldest such newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans.
Unlike Ukraine, which is firmly backed by NATO, Russia cannot count on its nominal Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) allies’ support. In an attempt to preserve the status quo on the...
The self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh – internationally recognized as Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region – is facing probably the most difficult period in its 32-year history. Baku seems...
“Yevgeny Prigozhin was a man of a complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in his life”, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 24, following the death of his former ally. Indeed,...
More than two months after Ukraine launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces, the Eastern European nation’s military made rather small gains on the battlefield. In spite of that, the...
Prior to the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Black Sea was often portrayed as a “Russian lake”. But after a series of debacles by Moscow in the Eastern European country, the Black Sea seems to be...
For the Kremlin, both liberal opposition and Russian nationalists seem to represent an equal threat. In order to eliminate any competition and portray Vladimir Putin as a “moderate leader”,...
Turkey can openly humiliate Russia, and there is nothing Moscow is willing to do about it. The Kremlin continues to demonstrate its weakness vis-à-vis Ankara, while the West is reportedly increasing...
Azerbaijan seems to be waiting for an opportunity to restore its sovereignty over parts of Nagorno-Karabakh that are still under the ethnic Armenians’ control. Harsh threats from Baku suggest that...
Vladimir Putin is undoubtedly one of the weakest leaders Russia has ever had. Although he may have succeeded in preserving formal power following the mutiny by Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin,...
Kazakhstan's foreign policy represents a constant balance between the country’s traditional ties with Russia and its economic cooperation with China. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine has allowed...
