Milos Katic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
One former recruit's account of the secretive dealings that feed Moscow's war effort in Ukraine under the guise of "construction work." He was left bitter at the broken promises, haphazard training, and casual disregard for human life among Russian commanders and Balkan intermediaries.
The propaganda network rapidly creates hundreds of news articles, which are often based on content from Russian media outlets currently banned by the EU.
In a city in North Macedonia notorious for its online scams, there is a new get-rich-quick scheme: Donald Trump-themed debit cards.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has vowed that "no one can bypass" Western sanctions on Russia via the Balkan country he leads. But a new RFE/RL investigation shows that the types of Western electronics used in Russian weapons are flowing to Moscow from Serbia.
Three Serbians -- a former defense lawyer for Serb war criminals, a onetime adviser to Bosnian Serb secessionist Milorad Dodik, and an exuberant journalist -- were in Russian-occupied Ukraine for what Kyiv and the West say were fake elections. Who sent them and on what authority?
