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The Serbian Arms-Maker and the Syrian War

NOVANEWS Robert Fisk confronts the Serbian weapons manufacturer ostensibly behind the weapons shipped to extremist groups in Syria via Saudi Arabia and her allies. In this June 28, 2011 file photo, a visitor looks at assault rifles made by the Serbian company Zastava Arms, during a defense fair, in Belgrade, Serbia. Darko Vojinovic | AP By Robert Fisk There’s no doubt about the affection in which Serbia’s Zastava weapons factory is held in the Middle East. Along the wall of Milojko Brzakovic’s managerial boardroom there are tokens of gratitude from the Arab world: plaques from Libya, from the “Public Security Directorate” of Jordan – a smart Hashemite crown above two curved swords – from the Royal Oman Police, even one from “the Palestine Presidential Guard leadership (sic) to Z...

Serb Bulldozers Demolish Wall in Kosovo’s Divided City

NOVANEWS Bulldozers demolish a wall following weeks of tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Feb. 5, 2017. | Photo: Reuters Northern Kosovo is home to a Serb minority of around 40,000 to 50,000 people. Local Serbs in Kosovo used bulldozers on Sunday to demolish a wall they built in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica, following weeks of tension over the issue between Kosovo and Serbia. The Serbs, who do not recognize Kosovo as a state, started constructing the wall in December, saying it was to protect against a landslip, but the Pristina government said the structure was an attempt to further divide the city along ethnic lines and should be destroyed. Tensions have grown in recent weeks because of the wall ...

Is Serbia Preparing for Elections or a New Balance of Powers

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini EU Has Lost Its Transformative Power. Enlargement Hits a Dead End Crime Without Punishment - a Contemporary Balkan-Global Novel Is Trump a Product of Democracy, or Tyranny? The year 2016 marked the rapid deterioration of relations between countries of the Western Balkans, having the most difficult situation be in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the key is held by Serbia. Over the last weeks Belgrade’s tone sharply deteriorated and radicalised, which resonates in Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo too. All this could turn out to be a rehearsal for the complete change of the geopolitical balance of power coming with the election of Donald Trump as US President, which bodes nothing good for the Western Balkans, and thus for the European Union. ...