Ajla Obradovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Who will lead the next government of Serbia, after Aleksandar Vucic lost parliamentary elections, can the protest movement turn electoral success into stable rule, and what the result could mean for Serbia’s balancing relations with the European Union, Russia, and China?
Why is Ukraine pounding the warehouses and logistics centers of the company known as Russia’s Amazon? For the same reason it’s trying to drive Russian car owners crazy by forcing them to wait in crazy long lines at fueling stations.
In the 1990s, US and Russian scientists pulled off the ultimate nuclear magic trick: "downblending" weapons-grade uranium so it could never be used in a bomb. Now, the US and Iran are trying to repeat history.
Since the onset of the all-out invasion in 2022, Ukraine has repeatedly poked at Russian forces -- and Russian tourists -- in occupied Crimea. In recent months, Kyiv’s efforts have become much more deliberate. They appear to be working.
While the U.S. and Iran have reached a historic agreement to restore stability in the Strait of Hormuz, the path to a full global energy recovery is dangerously lopsided
The war and its global ripple effects are a through line influencing many of the issues that the two leaders will discuss in Beijing, from rare earth minerals to Taiwan.
Iran is proposing to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a digital chokepoint threatening to charge, regulate, or potentially sabotage the undersea cables that carry a significant share of global internet traffic.
It has been over two months since one of the world’s key oil chokepoints was shut down. And it has meant a seismic global readjustment and a number of creative workarounds.
Mali is a mess. Russia’s Africa Corps is pulling out of a major city it helped capture a couple years ago, what some experts say was a humiliation. Here’s what you need to know about what’s going on in the West Africa nation, and what it could mean for Russia.
A mega–solar power plant in southern Bosnia-Herzegovina was announced as a development project by local authorities. But the Chinese-backed project soon faced local pushback, leading to rare legal setbacks and an investigation into possible land misuse.
In a rare instance of public resistance to Chinese-backed infrastructure projects in the Balkans, a tragic workplace death at a solar power plant in Bosnia has sparked a legal battle that halted construction and exposed violations involving illegal workers and environmental concerns.
After nine months of anti-government protests in Serbia, led by students, there is a surge in violence. Why now?
In 2021, the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. That changed the lives of millions, especially women and girls. Countless freedoms have been stripped, with bans on education, work, and daily activities. This video contrasts the life that Afghan women had with the harsh reality under the Taliban.
Could a surge in pizza orders near the Pentagon in Washington signal major global news? Those who believe in the Pentagon Pizza Index think so.
As tensions with Tehran persist, some continue to float the idea of using force to bring about political change in Iran. But is a military-driven strategy realistic or dangerously misguided? Experts weigh in on the feasibility, risks, and long-term consequences of intervention.
Israel launched attacks on Iran to counter what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an existential threat.
Russia is preparing to launch a sweeping new system to monitor migrant workers, combining biometric registration, location tracking, and intensified police oversight.
Starting on September 1, an experimental digital surveillance program will target migrants in the Russian capital.
Who are the members of the new cabinet — and will Macut act simply as an extension of President Vučić?
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