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Author: Taulant Elshani – Senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of Hybrid Warfare OCTOPUS Serbia’s unchecked authoritarianism under Vucic, bolstered by Western appeasement, threatens regional stability. A radical shift towards democratisation is imperative for lasting peace in the Balkans. In Serbia, President Aleksandar Vucic’s authoritarian regime has become deeply intertwined with the political and historical

Four months have passed since Serbia’s aggression against Kosovo through the paramilitary and terrorist attack in Banjskë – an aggression organized by the highest political and military levels in Belgrade. The Octopus Institute brings back to the attention of the local and international public that Serbia and the regime of Aleksandar Vučić continue to provide

Author: Jasmin Mujanovic The Serb nationalist paramilitary attack in Banjska, in northern Kosovo, which resulted in the deaths of one Kosovo police officer and the wounding of two more, represents the most serious instance of violence in the country since the end of the 1999 war and the accompanying NATO intervention. In Banjska we see

Serbia’s chronic dependence on the Russian Federation: How Serbia is turning into a client and proxy stat Author: Taulant Elshani – Researcher at ISLH “OCTOPUS” Dependence in the inter-state and political context involves a wide and often intertwined spectrum of factors. As a multifaceted concept, dependency can be defined as the degree to which one