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.
Tensions in northern Kosovo could have serious consequences for the local Serbs who make up the majority of the population in the region. Instrumentalized, abandoned, and betrayed by Belgrade, they...
The Russian Federation cannot project authority over parts of its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries. As such, Russia is a de facto failed state, even though its...
“Russia does not deserve a millimeter of the victory of its grandfathers in the World War 2”, said Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner private military company frontman, in a video released on Russia's...
Two and a half years after Armenia and Azerbaijan ended the 44-day war they fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan seems to have completely relinquished the mountainous region that was under the...
While Ukraine prepares to launch a large-scale counteroffensive against the Russian forces in the southeast of the country, the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group is reportedly eyeing up the Sudan conflict....
While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring or summer counteroffensive against the Russian forces in the southeast of the war-torn country, Moscow, Kyiv and the West seem to be preparing the ground for...
There is a European country whose leader has been in power since 1990, four years longer than Belarus’ strongman Alexander Lukashenko. This weekend, the game for Montenegro’s President Milo...
In order to avoid, or at least postpone, what appears to be an inevitable defeat in Ukraine, Russia desperately needs China’s help. In the long-term, Moscow is unlikely to be able to continue...
The United States seems to be the only major power that can prevent an escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Although the South Caucasus has traditionally been in Russia’s geopolitical...
One year after the Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, the Eastern European nation is firmly backed by the entirety of Western civilization,...
