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Alex

@alessio.re
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Open source advocate, OSINT enthusiast, founder at Klartika. Passionate about the Caucasus and the Balkans. Coffee lover based in Zagreb, Croatia. 🇪🇺

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce the “Safeguard Swiss neutrality” ballot initiative, which goes to a nationwide vote in Switzerland on 27 September. Superficially, its promise can sound appealing: peace, sovereignty, and permanent armed neutrality. But most of that is a distraction:
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Alex @alessio.re · 05/08/2026
And just like that, the students decided to out-Vučić themselves and demonstrate that everything is a dead-end in today’s Serbia. Good analysis, although everything mentioned had been self-evident for a long time now, well before the May declaration.
serbianmonitor.com
Is pointing out the flaws of the student movement permitted?
By Fahrudin Kladničanin, an NGO activist from Novi Pazar The problem is not that students do not have an opinion on everything, but that they have decided to have no opinion whatsoever on certain issu...
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Alex @alessio.re · 16/07/2026
vsquare.org
"Hybrid War Over Our Own Democracy and Sovereignty": How Vučić and Putin Targets Serbia's Civil Society - VSquare.org
A Russian cyberespionage operation spent a month inside a Belgrade think tank's inboxes, reading 28,000 emails after posing as a Belarusian dissident to get in. Tied to the SVR and GRU, the hackers we...
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Alex @alessio.re · 03/07/2026
Apparently, everything has to change for absolutely nothing to change.
slobodnaevropa.org
Desno lice studentskog pokreta: 'Kosovskim zavetom' protiv vlasti u Srbiji
 
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Alex @alessio.re · 27/05/2026
thenextweb.com
Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned
China’s $1.1bn AI and robotics investment in Serbia lands four days after the largest anti-Vučić protests in months. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either.
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A European Commission proposal could create one of Europe’s largest privacy and national-security risks in decades. techletters.substack.com/p/the-europe...
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The European Commission is turning Google Search into a privacy and national-security risk
The European Commission is preparing to compel Google to stream search data to third-party companies through an automated API. It is doing this under the Digital Markets Act, a regulation with a sound...
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Alex @alessio.re · 12/02/2026
Every single time I begin to forget that Milanović exists, he comes out and shows what a tool he is.
croatiaweek.com
Croatian president backs Georgia’s territorial integrity during landmark visit
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Alex @alessio.re · 06/02/2026
theins.ru
Talking points from Moscow: How RT and the GRU set the agenda on German-language Telegram
The Insider and Novaya Gazeta Europe have found that half of all sociopolitical content in the German-language segment of Telegram is controlled by the RT (formerly Russia Today) media network, which ...
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Alex @alessio.re · 07/01/2026
“From the very beginning we see asymmetric distancing from liberal, civic and pro-European actors, while distancing from other ideological positions is very rare” This is why these protests should never be compared to the ones taking place in Georgia. The aims might be similar, the players aren’t.
balkaninsight.com
How Student Protesters Spurned Serbia’s ‘Demonised’ Civil Society
In Serbia, 2025 was the year when protesting students rejected collaboration with the country’s civil society NGOs - but at what cost?
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Noahpinion @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev · 07/12/2025
Europe is under siege
noahpinion.blog
Europe is under siege
Menaced by Russia and China, abandoned by America.
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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Another chilling investigation results regarding data brokers and real-time bidding highlighting how real-time bidding is not only a general data protection issue, but also poses serious national security threats. netzpolitik.org/2025/databro...
netzpolitik.org
Databroker Files: Targeting the EU
Precise locations and revealing movement patterns: the mobile phone location data of millions of people in the EU is up for sale. Collected supposedly only for advertising purposes, this data can also...
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Alex @alessio.re · 04/11/2025
Chat control is gone for now, but keep your guard up.
euractiv.com
Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control' | Euractiv
The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A brute like Wilders screams and is like a street fighter that people notice. Only populism and far right views have been more broadly normalized as it’s no longer coming from one individual but also the VVD and JA21. Has populism therefore been defeated, as some claim? The answer is no.
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My comment for De Standaard. Poisoning LLMs with tainted information or propaganda to produce tainted replies is possible and not so difficult for a resourced threat actor. www.standaard.be/buitenland/r...
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce American propagandist Alexandra Jost, aka “Sasha”. She’s best known for being paid by the Russian state to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda — and for doing it with a big smile. 1/23
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny. He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified. www.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
kremlin.ru
Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией
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Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Read here about Georgia’s madman oligarch Ivanishvili, his crypto obsession, and how he instrumentalizes state institutions for his personal wealth games. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/10/2025
The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat
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Alex @alessio.re · 03/10/2025
It’s rather interesting how white South Africans, while being less than 5 million people in SA, are so over-represented in the racist/fascist conversation all over the West.
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Roman Yeremenko @roalyr.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The result of suppressing Ukrainian voices (and performing algorithmic manipulations) on social media platforms. #Ukraine #UkrainianView
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
404media.co
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll cover the agenda-setting and flood of disinformation that spread on X and other platforms right after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It’s far from the first or last time a tragedy has been weaponized for political purposes. 1/18
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🟡🐍Sviatoslove.pie♥🇺🇦#StandWithUkraine🙏 | українець на чужині @webknjaz.me · 02/09/2025
Wow, @texty.org published their research about bias and disinformation about #Ukraine in #AI just the other day: texty.org.ua/projects/115... #UkrainianView #StandWithUkraine️ #LLM
texty.org.ua
What does AI think about Ukraine? Exploring the biases of large language models
Together with OpenBabylon, Texty.org.ua formulated 2803 questions about Ukraine in English, asked them to 27 language models, and evaluated their …
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Alex @alessio.re · 02/09/2025
balkaninsight.com
Bosnia’s Banja Luka, My Ethnically Cleansed Hometown
Banja Luka, the administrative seat of Republika Srpska, is unrecognisable from the multiethnic Bosnian city I once called home, where war criminals are now celebrated and the expelled never returned.
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Alex @alessio.re · 29/08/2025
Share and repost. This cannot fly.
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Alex @alessio.re · 26/08/2025
We might have to take a hit, but we can’t give in to this bully on principles as well, after giving in on economy.
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Important the NYT has picked up on what can arguably be considered the largest neo-fascist rally in Europe since the fall of Franco; Nazi sympathizer Thompson’s enormous Zagreb concert, endorsed and attended by the most senior levels of Croatia’s HDZ govt. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/w...
nytimes.com
A Singer’s Fascist-Era Salute Evokes a Bloody Time in Croatia
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Alex @alessio.re · 23/08/2025
foreignpolicy.com
From Berlin to Baghdad on the Ruins of a WWI Railway
The unfinished line traces a fractured region still beset by competing imperial projects.
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Alex @alessio.re · 21/08/2025
267 days of great efforts, sacrifices, dedication and risks, repeating the same strategy over and over with zero results. I don’t know what to think anymore, at this point.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
1/11 🏅🇷🇺 Vatnik Hall of Fame: Part 7 Time to induct 10 more figures into the gallery of grifters, propagandists, and useful idiots doing the Kremlin’s work
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🔴The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight While no progress was made on a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers, reports @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/18/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight
While no progress was made towards a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
1/2. The phrase "land swap" is being used to mean "Ukraine concedes land illegally occupied by Russia and also concedes territory that is not even occupied." That is not a swap.
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Alex @alessio.re · 17/08/2025
theins.ru
Chianti from Medvedev, Montepulciano by Yakunin, and Merlot à la Mikhalkov: A brief guide to the Italian vineyards of Putin’s inner circle
Members of the Kremlin elite — including Vladimir Putin’s former KGB colleagues, his political allies, and his business partners from among the Malyshev and Tambov criminal groups — still own luxuriou...
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Alex @alessio.re · 16/08/2025
Insightful thread.
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Croatia has largely obscured its increasingly illiberal political alignments behind a veneer of "European civility". Yet as Zagreb & its sectarian proxies in BiH have no (foreign) policy other than BiH's domination, the truth still slips through at times, as in these recent HDZ-Fidesz-CCP meetings.
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Alex @alessio.re · 01/08/2025
atlanticcouncil.org
Trump offered Putin victory in Ukraine. Why did Putin refuse?
Trump thought he could get a peace deal in Ukraine by offering Putin generous terms that amounted to a Russian victory. But Putin rejected Trump's offer because he cannot accept anything less that Ukr...
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will neal @willneal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🚨NEW: Latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social with Josimar's Paul Brown, on how an Israeli tycoon, a shady Miami investment group, and a UK firm controlled by enablers of the Georgian regime became embroiled in a £1bn legal spat between powerful Russian business interests. 1/13 👉 shorturl.at/8hHYG
shorturl.at
Mystery at the Heart of £1 Billion UK Legal Offensive Against Top Putin Ally
A sanctioned former Kremlin politician was sued for shares in his multi-billion-dollar fertiliser company. But why did a trio of companies with links to Russian interests in football get involved?
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Alex @alessio.re · 30/07/2025
Maybe by 2050 the EU will enforce some sanctions.
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Alex @alessio.re · 27/07/2025
theatlantic.com
Zelensky Learned the Wrong Lesson From Trump
Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.
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The Insider @theins.press · 21/07/2025
Putin sidelined: Russia fails to stop Turkey from reconciling Azerbaijan and Armenia As Baku and Yerevan continue to negotiate towards peace, Russia’s influence in the South Caucasus appears to be on the decline — to the advantage of the United States.
theins.press
Putin sidelined: Russia fails to stop Turkey from reconciling Azerbaijan and Armenia
On July 10, the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia held peace negotiations in Abu Dhabi. Worsening relations between Moscow and Baku and the recent arrests of pro-Russian opposition figures in Armenia ...
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Great new CER paper from tech expert Zach Meyers. Zach warns the EU against giving any tech concessions to team Trump like the UK did to clinch a trade 'deal' - for three key reasons. 1/2 www.cer.eu/insights/tra...
cer.eu
In transatlantic trade talks, the EU must keep digital policy off the table
The UK has shifted some of its digital policies to appease the US president. But Brussels should adjust its tech agenda to boost its own competitiveness – not to cave in to Donald Trump.
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Alex @alessio.re · 19/07/2025
One might or might not like HDZ’s policies at home, but what they are doing in BiH is concerning. This article doesn’t contain anything new, but it’s a good primer on the subject.
foreignpolicy.com
Croatia’s Quiet War in Bosnia
Zagreb’s push for segregation puts the future of democratic Bosnia at risk.
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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🇬🇪 The number of Ukrainians being kept in a basement by Georgian authorities at the Upper Lars checkpoint at the Russian border has increased to 90, acc. to Volunteers Tbilisi, a human rights group which offers assistance to Ukrainian refugees. oc-media.org/ninety-ukrai... #Georgia #Russia #Ukraine
oc-media.org
Ninety Ukrainians now reportedly being held in ‘inhumane’ conditions on Georgian border
Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze said that they are not allowed to enter the country.
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Alex @alessio.re · 12/07/2025
From Thompson and his ustasha fans, roaming freely with the blessing of the Croatian government, to the innate negationism across the political spectrum in Serbia, protesters included, this part of the world (including Austria, dare I say) has got a big issue with confronting its past.
serbianism.com
Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Serbia has a new generation of war crimes fans
The majority of Serbian society, and that includes the people in both Serbia and Republika Srpska, continues with the war crimes denial, because it is a basis for the Serbian authoritarian, parochi…
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Alex @alessio.re · 12/07/2025
As you would expect, Russia is working this angle hard, but is that much different from what xAI is doing with its own models?
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 11/07/2025
“The United States and its European allies would do well to study the example of Georgia to understand why a postwar plan for Ukraine is so vital,” argues Eka Tkeshelashvili.
foreignaffairs.com
Georgia’s Warning for Ukraine
A cease-fire alone would hardly end Russia’s quest for dominance.
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adnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.
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Alex @alessio.re · 09/07/2025
Tragic indeed.
nin.rs
"Eyes wide shut" to fascism: A tragic Image of Zagreb and Croatia
Najnovije vesti i video priče iz Srbije i sveta o najvažnijim događajima iz politike, sporta, biznisa, kulture, zdravlja. Budite uz Nin .
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