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Serbia protests after Croatia’s foreign minister calls Vučić a Russian ‘satellite’ in the Balkans

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BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia on Sunday sent a protest note after Croatia’s foreign minister described President Aleksandar Vučić as a Russian “satellite” in the Balkans. It was the latest spat between the two neighbors, which have been at odds for most of the time since the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Croatian Foreign … Read more

Serbia’s Vucic seeks to reassert populist dominance in elections this weekend

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BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is pushing hard to reassert his populist party’s dominance in this weekend’s early parliamentary and local elections that observers say are being held in an atmosphere of intimidation and media bias. The vote in the troubled eastern European country on Sunday pits Vucic’s governing Serbian Progressive Party, or … Read more