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POLITICSOct 6From Streets to Polling Stations: Serbia’s Student Movement Takes Electoral TestNearly two years after it was created, Serbia’s student movement is contesting a national election – but experts warn that winning power would only be the start of the challenge.Balkan Insight
POLITICSOct 6Nationalist Parties Celebrate Wins in Bosnia Election, But Many Voters Stay HomeThe dominant ethnic-based parties scored highest in Sunday’s general elections, although a record low turnout hinted at growing apathy towards all parties.Balkan Insight
POLITICSOct 6EU mulls tougher restrictions on Russian diplomats as hybrid threats intensifyThe recent spate of hybrid attacks across Europe has raised questions over the possible involvement of Russian diplomats, prompting member states to consider tighter restrictions and checks.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 6Khortiani: Campaign of hatred against Ukraine in Hungary failsA large-scale anti-Ukrainian information campaign in Hungary, in which Russia invested enormous sums, has collapsed, and the election results showed that inciting hatred toward Ukraine did not yield the expected outcome.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 6Zelensky appoints Klymenko as chair of Council of Experts on Energy SecurityPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Ihor Klymenko, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, as chairman of the Council of Experts on Energy Security—an advisory body to the NSDC.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 6FT: Hungary may lift veto on next stage of Ukraine's EU accession talks this weekHungary is expected to lift its veto this week on the technical stage of Ukraine's EU accession process.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 6Police clash with Kosovo protesters over bid to curb Hague war crimes courtThe political dispute over the court has become a factor in negotiations to hold a new presidential election.Al Jazeera [en]
POLITICSOct 5Ukraine's EU Accession: Kos hopes two more clusters to open next weekThe European Union is closely monitoring the work of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, particularly the adoption of expected amendments to legislation concerning national minorities.Ukrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 5Russia arrests the director of its military-themed Patriot Park on suspicion of bribery. (His predecessor was jailed for embezzlement.)Igor Vasilyev, director general of Patriot Park, has been detained on suspicion of accepting a bribe classified as especially large under Russian law, law enforcement sources told TASS.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 5Diplomat is Romania’s fourth prime ministerial candidate in five monthsPresident Nicușor Dan gives Luca Niculescu the job of trying to break the deadlock and form a government in Bucharest, amid calls for fresh elections.Politico Europe
POLITICSOct 5The Russian ‘lab leak’ and America’s great weaknessAfter Trump withdrew from the WHO and slashed funding for medical research, American scientists told me they feared China would take over as the world leader in science. Situations like this underscore how risky that move was, writes Holly BaxterThe Independent World
POLITICSOct 5Russian court sentences ‘Masyanya’ creator Oleg Kuvayev in absentia to four years over antiwar cartoon and ‘foreign agent’ violationsMeduza [en]
POLITICSOct 5Trump blames Democrats and Ukraine for soaring US fuel prices, not Iran warTrump shifts blame for fuel price hikes to blue states like California and Ukraine strikes on Russian oil refineries.Al Jazeera [en]
POLITICSOct 5'I'm not a terrorist, I'm just a journalist', how to carry on reporting for Russia and Belarus from exileAlina Koushyk and Maxim Katz, two opposition journalists living in exile who fled Belarus and Russia respectively, on how they pursue their work from abroad.EuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 5Trump blames war-ravaged Ukraine’s efforts to fight off Russia – for our sky-high gas pricesPresident’s new Truth Social post attempts to deflect blame for sky-high fuel costs on Ukraine attacks on Russian refineries — as Iran war and Hormuz Strait standstill continues with no end in sightThe Independent World
POLITICSOct 520 years ago, the death of Anna Politkovskaya, a prelude to Putin's authoritarian driftLe Figaro International
POLITICSOct 5State media silently corrects poem in Putin quote after he misrecites lines Russians supposedly ‘absorb with their mother’s milk’At a meeting with teachers on October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin misquoted a four-line poem by Fyodor Tyutchev, while stressing that every Russian knows the lines.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 5Trump somehow blames Ukraine for high US gas prices as he gets clobbered over it on campaign trailPresident’s new Truth Social post attempts to deflect blame for sky-high fuel costs on Ukraine attacks on Russian refineries — as Iran war and Hormuz Strait standstill continues with no end in sightThe Independent World
POLITICSOct 5Trump attributes gasoline price hike to Ukraine's attacks against RussiaThe American leader blames Ukraine for the rise in fuel costs, disassociating the Middle East conflict from the energy problem. With elections approaching, price increases are a key issue for voters, while tensions in Eastern Europe remain uncommented.Clarín
POLITICSOct 5India is one of Russia’s biggest energy buyers. Can it also help broker peace with Ukraine?India is beginning to take a more active role in efforts to reach a settlement between Russia and Ukraine, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said. Bloomberg reported that his explicit statement signals New Delhi’s shift toward a more active stance after years of caution over the war, driven partly by its close economic ties with Russia.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 5Rubio responds to Russia's call for foreign diplomatic missions to leave KyivUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington reviews the safety of its diplomatic missions daily and would change its security posture if necessary, but has not done so in Kyiv.pravda_uk · ukraine
POLITICSOct 5Ukraine’s path into the EU may come with a catch for its farmers: limits on subsidies and market accessBrussels may limit Ukraine’s access to agricultural subsidies and the EU food market if it joins the bloc, according to an internal European Commission document cited by the Financial Times.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 5Anna Politkovskaya: The journalist killed 20 years ago for understanding Putin before anyone elseMurdered in 2006 in the stairwell of her apartment building in Moscow, the renowned Russian reporter relentlessly warned, with remarkable clarity, about the true nature of Vladimir Putin. Her reporting from Chechnya already foreshadowed the war in Ukraine.Le Monde [en]
POLITICSOct 5Denied asylum in the U.S., imprisoned in Russia. Activist Leonid Melekhin gets 6 years for ‘justifying terrorism.’A court sentenced Leonid Melekhin, a businessman and activist from Perm, to six years in prison for justifying terrorism, Mediazona reported.Meduza [en]