Articles By Slavisha Batko Milacic

Syria: a quiet zone of Russian presence
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2023
On September 30, 2015, Russia launched one of the most successful military operations in history on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. It was the first time in Russia’s post- Soviet...

Russia will not allow hunger in the world
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2023
A year after the war in Ukraine began, grain exports across the Black Sea will be extended for another two months. This is a very important deal, given the deepening of global hunger. And today,...

Russian products are finding new markets in the world
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Date: 25 Apr , 2023
The beginning of the conflict in Ukraine showed us once again how important food is both from a humanitarian and geopolitical point of view. This is evidenced by the constant reports of the...

Kazakhstan: Early Elections as a Guarantor of Stability
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Mar , 2023
Sitting at the very heart of Eurasia, Kazakhstan is one of the most prosperous post-Soviet republicsand, of course, the most affluent in Central Asia. A unique geographical location and...

Washington must stop using Biological Weapons
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2023
The BTWC hearings that took place in Geneva last year once again clearly demonstrated the need for the immediate adoption of an effective mechanism to monitor compliance with the Convention. And...

Ukraine refugees feel they are the owners of the Baltics
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Feb , 2023
Recently, an online conference “Ukrainian refugees in the Baltic States, social aspects of integration into society” was held. During the meeting, experts from the Baltic countries discussed the...

Dark secrets of the Ukrainian conflict
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Dec , 2022
In December of this year, another report appeared in the Russian media telling about the plight of the wounded Ukrainian military. In particular, the Russians point out that some of the...

Geopolitics of Ukrainian war crimes
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Dec , 2022
Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine Moscow has charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity, the head of Russia’s investigative...

"Grain deal" - A channel for the supply of Ammunition to Kyiv?
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2022
Just a few hours after the attack by sea “drones” on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in the early morning of October 29, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the...

NATO planned a pre-emptive strike on Russia
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2022
One of the largest French maritime exercises in the Mediterranean, POLARIS 21 (Préparation Opérationnelle en LutteAéromaritime, Résilience, Innovation et Supériorité), took place from...

A new phase of hybrid war
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2022
On Tuesday, September 27, Gazprom announced unprecedented damage to the company’s two gas pipelines that run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to Germany – Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2. Almost...

A Great Success of Russian Engineers
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2022
From August 26 to 30, a group of international journalists had the opportunity to visit Crimea and see how the European Union sanctions affect Crimea. The author of this article was among that...

Ukrainian army endangers civilians
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Aug , 2022
Ukrainian forces have threatened civilians by setting up bases and operating weapons systems in populated areas, including schools and hospitals, as they battled the Russian intervention that...

Western assistance or logistical nightmare for Ukraine?
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jul , 2022
In early July, right after Lisichansk was captured by the Russian forces, the Russian military and its allies from DNR and LNR, put on display a large number of captured Ukrainian military...

How can Europe defend against an uncontrolled new arms market?
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2022
Editor’s Note: There is a tinge of comical in this readable article relating to the generous weapons supply by the West to Ukraine. Hardly a day passes by without Europeans and Americans...
Double standards for Erdogan
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2022
While the whole world was distracted by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and wondered whether China would follow Moscow’s example and try to “reintegrate” Taiwan, Ankara, a member of the North...

The truth about Bucha
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2022
Shortly after the Russian troops left the outskirts of Kiev, the pro-Ukrainian media fired a broadside of stories about alleged Russian war crimes against peaceful civilians, traces of which were...

NATO aggression against Serbia in 1999 and the Russian peacekeeping...
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Mar , 2022
Recently, more and more European and American analysts, journalists, populist politicians are comparing the Allied Force operation carried out by NATO troops against Serbia and Montenegro in 1999...

What Forced a Russian response in Ukraine
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Date: 08 Mar , 2022
While the Russian special operation is going on in Ukraine, many are wondering what is the reason for launching it. One of the reasons, which is labeled by the West as Putin’s rhetoric, is the...

Fake News and Ukrainian Crisis
By: Slavisha Batko Milacic | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2022
“The same pilot who shot down six Russian warplanes, he was nicknamed the ‘Ghost of Kiev”. “A column of scorched Russian equipment near Konotop”. “Snake Island recaptured”. Such...