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West using ‘mafia tactics’ on Durov – Serbian MP
Russia, Serbia

West using ‘mafia tactics’ on Durov – Serbian MP

Posted by: John Phoenix France is after Telegram’s encryption codes, Aleksandar Pavic has claimed in an interview with RT FILE PHOTO: Telegram logo seen displayed on a smartphone with the French flag in the background. ©  Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images France is extorting Pavel Durov for Telegram’s encryption codes so they can censor the messaging platform, Serbian lawmaker Aleksandar Pavic has claimed in an interview with RT. Durov was detained on Saturday in Paris and charged with failing to cooperate with the French authorities in investigating serious crimes allegedly committed using Telegram.  “These are mafia tactics, let’s be very clear. They are trying to extort the encryption keys from him,” Pavi...
NATO troops brawl with Serbs
Kosovo, NATO, Serbia

NATO troops brawl with Serbs

Footage shows the moment violence broke out in the town of Zvecan NATO soldiers and Serb protesters clash in Zvecan, Kosovo, May 29, 2023 ©  AP Video footage published by RT Balkan shows the moment that a protest by Serbs in northern Kosovo devolved into a melee between the demonstrators and NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR). The protestors faced off against KFOR soldiers outside municipal buildings in the town of Zvecan on Monday morning, where a newly-installed ethnic Albanian mayor was set to take office following an election boycotted by the town’s Serb majority. The video shows two groups of protesters sitting near the soldiers in a peaceful manner, one immediately in front of the camera and the other further away. A loud explosion erupts from the direction of...
Serbia ‘urgently’ moving army to Kosovo frontier
Kosovo, Serbia

Serbia ‘urgently’ moving army to Kosovo frontier

Belgrade’s move was triggered by the latest clashes in the breakaway province of Kosovo Kosovo riot police push Serbs gathered in front of a municipal building on May 26, 2023. © AFP / Stringer Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has placed the national armed forces on high alert and ordered units to move towards the administrative line dividing the breakaway province of Kosovo from the rest of the country. The move comes following clashes between police and protesters in a majority-Serb town in the region on Friday. “An urgent movement of forces to the Kosovo border has been ordered,” Defense Minister Milos Vucevic confirmed in a TV broadcast, adding that it is clear that “terror against the Serb community in Kosovo” is continuing. Vucevic said the security ...
Serbian president predicts future of EU
Ex-Yugoslavia, Serbia

Serbian president predicts future of EU

Ukraine will begin talks to enter the bloc by June, a move beneficial to the US, Aleksandar Vucic has claimed Aleksandar Vucic attends a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, October 3, 2022 ©  AFP / Attila Kisbenedek With a battlefield victory “impossible,” Ukraine will begin negotiations to enter the EU this summer, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told a local media outlet on Sunday. Ukraine will join a group of EU countries under the “direct influence” of the US, he stated. “Ukraine will not easily win in the military sense, it is almost impossible,” Vucic told Serbian broadcaster RTV Pink. Faced with this realization, he continued, “decisions will be made” in Brussels and Kiev around June “about the immediate star...
Serbian president speaks on Russia sanctions after scandal
Russia, Serbia

Serbian president speaks on Russia sanctions after scandal

Aleksandar Vucic told reporters that he, and not some minister, will announce any policy changes Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks in Belgrade on March 16, 2023. ©  AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic brushed off the demands of one of his cabinet ministers to join the EU sanctions against Russia, telling reporters on Thursday that the long-standing policy might change only if there is no other way. “Our position is to not impose sanctions,” Vucic told reporters in Belgrade, before departing for North Macedonia for talks regarding the breakaway province of Kosovo.  Implying that this policy might be changed only in “circumstances when there is no way out,” Vucic said he, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Foreig...
Kosovo wants to start NATO-Serbia war
NATO, Serbia

Kosovo wants to start NATO-Serbia war

The Serbian president compared the breakaway province’s leader to Ukraine’s Zelensky Serbian protesters hold a "No Surrender" sign with the outline of Kosovo at a rally in Belgrade against the proposed EU plan, February 15, 2023. ©  Aleksandar Djorovic/RIA Novosti Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused on Friday the ethnic Albanian authorities in the breakaway province of Kosovo of attempting to provoke a war in which NATO would once again take their side. “They want to drag Serbia into a conflict with NATO. Kurti wants to be like [Vladimir] Zelensky, and I would be some kind of [Vladimir] Putin,” Vucic said, referring to the presidents of Ukraine and Russia. “It’s what they’re after, what they’ve been doing all along. And in this, they have the s...
After 15 years of ‘independence’, it is clear that Kosovo was a stepping stone for NATO’s imperial goals
Europe, NATO, Russia, Serbia, USA

After 15 years of ‘independence’, it is clear that Kosovo was a stepping stone for NATO’s imperial goals

Similar to Ukraine, Serbia’s breakaway province is an exercise in the ‘rules-based order’, where rules are made up for the convenience of Western powers By Aleksandar Pavic, political analyst FILE PHOTO. Kosovars wave flags and shout slogans after Kosovo's declaration of independence on February 17, 2008. ©  DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP On February 17, 2008, a group of US-backed “democratic leaders” headed by a former Western-sponsored terrorist declared the independence of Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo and Metohija (its full legal name under Serbia’s constitution). It seemed oh so simple and straightforward at the zenith of the “unipolar moment,” and Kosovo Albanians were “confidently awaiting Western recognition for their state despite the anger...
Serbia may soon be forced to sanction Russia
Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, USA

Serbia may soon be forced to sanction Russia

Western pressure on Belgrade will drastically increase as the Ukraine conflict escalates, the Serbian president said Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic attends a government cabinet meeting. ©  AFP / Andrej Isakovic The moment is approaching when Serbia will have no choice but to give in to Western demands to sanction its long time friend Russia, its President Aleksandar Vucic has warned. In an interview with Prva broadcaster on Friday, Vucic said he expects “a major escalation” in the conflict in Ukraine over the next six months. The fighting to date will feel like “almost nothing, compared to what’s coming,” he warned. This situation “will affect our country as the pressure on Belgrade, in terms of its relations with Russia, will b...
Serbia responds to ‘cancel-Russian-culture’ calls
Russia, Serbia

Serbia responds to ‘cancel-Russian-culture’ calls

Aleksandar Vucic told the media that his government, despite being “on the European path,” will not cancel the Russian classics Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic ©  Nihad Ibrahimkadic / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Serbia will not jump on the Russia-bashing bandwagon and cancel the country’s culture, President Aleksandar Vucic has told media. He explained that preserving the Russian classics in the public domain is as important as guarding national financial interests. In an interview with Serbia’s Prva news channel broadcast on Friday, Vucic acknowledged that his country largely depends on the West in terms of investment. For this reason, the president noted, those who call on Belgrade to cut these ties “don't know how the country works.” Vucic went on to...
Serbia Resists US-led Bullying
Serbia, USA

Serbia Resists US-led Bullying

BY GREGORY ELICH National Assembly of Serbia. Photograph Source: Boris Dimitrov – CC BY-SA 3.0 Little more than half a year has passed since Belgrade hosted the Non-Aligned Summit on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the movement’s founding, and Serbia is increasingly under fire for upholding the organization’s principles. Russia’s ill-considered invasion of Ukraine has provided US imperialism with the opportunity of a lifetime, supercharging NATO and US military expansion and transforming the conflict into a proxy war. By sending arms to Ukraine and urging it on to total victory rather than a negotiated settlement, the hope in Washington is that the war can be prolonged. The expectation is that sanctions would then have enough time to bring about the collapse of R...