Natalia Ishchenko

Seven police officers were injured, and 25 demonstrators were detained. These are the results of yet another protest wave in Macedonia which provide an illustration of sorts to the historic agreement regarding the renaming of the country, which was signed on June 17.On that day, foreign...

It was mid-June 2014. Ukrainian troops, with volunteer battalions in the vanguard, were liberating Ukrainian cities from pro-Russian and Russian militants. Mariupol, Shchastia... It seemed that we had to wait just a little before we liberate Donetsk and Luhansk, and recover the entire Donbas...Then...

May 21 marks a very important event in Montenegrin history. Back in 2006 on that date, a referendum on national independence and withdrawal from the federation with Serbia took place, with 55.4 percent Montenegrins saying yea. After 88 years of being part first of the Kingdom of...

Milo Djukanovic, Montenegro’s permanent political leader, won the presidential election in the first round. The State Election Commission, after counting 100 percent of votes, declared that the leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) had collected 53.9 percent of votes,...

On April 11, the Appeals Chamber of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) announced its ruling in the proceedings against Vojislav Seselj after the Hague Tribunal. The leader of the Serbian Radical Party received 10 years. The MICT’s previous acquittal (March...

It is by far the most serious aggravation of the situation in the Balkans since the end of the war in former Yugoslavia. Serbia and Kosovo are in fact on the verge of a new armed confrontation.What caused the escalation of an old conflict is the arrest of Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian...

March 24 marks the 19th anniversary of start of the NATO bombing campaign in the former Yugoslavia. Ukrainians know very little about the circumstances of those events. Information that we do have is often incomplete, often distorted, and sometimes absent at all.One of the little-known...

“Albania would be more than happy to share its experience with Ukraine on the European Integration process issue,” Dr. Shpresa Kureta, Ambassador Resident of the Republic of Albania to the Republic of Poland and Ambassador Non-resident to Ukraine said, answering the question of The...

It was announced last week that US Department of State and Department of Defense have agreed to allocate at least $40 million for countering foreign propaganda and disinformation financed by “certain states.” The two agencies signed a Memorandum of Agreement to transfer funds to...

Independence of Kosovo is one of the most controversial issues in world politics. Ukrainians, on the other hand, are largely united in treating the Serbian province’s declaration of sovereignty in an unambiguous, extremely skeptical, even negative manner. However, there have been so many...