Reposted by AlexVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In 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: 12341132
Alex @alessio.re · 05/08/2026And 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.comIs 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... 120
Alex @alessio.re · 16/07/2026vsquare.org"Hybrid War Over Our Own Democracy and Sovereignty": How Vučić and Putin Targets Serbia's Civil Society - VSquare.orgA 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... 141
Alex @alessio.re · 03/07/2026Apparently, everything has to change for absolutely nothing to change.slobodnaevropa.orgDesno lice studentskog pokreta: 'Kosovskim zavetom' protiv vlasti u Srbiji 030
Alex @alessio.re · 27/05/2026thenextweb.comVučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burnedChina’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. 130
Reposted by AlexLukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 26/04/2026A European Commission proposal could create one of Europe’s largest privacy and national-security risks in decades. techletters.substack.com/p/the-europe...blog.lukaszolejnik.comThe European Commission is turning Google Search into a privacy and national-security riskThe 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... 11712
Alex @alessio.re · 12/02/2026Every single time I begin to forget that Milanović exists, he comes out and shows what a tool he is.croatiaweek.comCroatian president backs Georgia’s territorial integrity during landmark visit 241
Alex @alessio.re · 06/02/2026theins.ruTalking points from Moscow: How RT and the GRU set the agenda on German-language TelegramThe 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 ... 021
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.comHow Student Protesters Spurned Serbia’s ‘Demonised’ Civil SocietyIn Serbia, 2025 was the year when protesting students rejected collaboration with the country’s civil society NGOs - but at what cost? 163
Reposted by AlexNoahpinion @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev · 07/12/2025Europe is under siegenoahpinion.blogEurope is under siegeMenaced by Russia and China, abandoned by America. 53014
Reposted by AlexNorman @noaasm.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Another 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.orgDatabroker Files: Targeting the EUPrecise 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... 11010
Alex @alessio.re · 04/11/2025Chat control is gone for now, but keep your guard up.euractiv.comDanish Presidency backs away from 'chat control' | EuractivThe Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders 021
Reposted by AlexChris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 29/10/2025A 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. 061
Reposted by AlexLukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 29/10/2025My 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... 0107
Reposted by AlexVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 10/10/2025In 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 11475184
Reposted by AlexMaria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Pu 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.ruОбращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией 16446135
Reposted by AlexKatie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Read 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.comOpinion | Someone Tipped Me Off About a Crypto Story. What I Found Was Crazy. 44118
Reposted by AlexElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/10/2025The 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.orgChat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be StoppedThe 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 115182
Alex @alessio.re · 03/10/2025It’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. 000
Reposted by AlexRoman Yeremenko @roalyr.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The result of suppressing Ukrainian voices (and performing algorithmic manipulations) on social media platforms. #Ukraine #UkrainianView 85614
Reposted by AlexJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Mainstream 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.coCharlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right WayThe mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work. 21787482358
Reposted by AlexVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 11/09/2025In 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 13621228
Reposted by Alex🟡🐍Sviatoslove.pie♥🇺🇦#StandWithUkraine🙏 | українець на чужині @webknjaz.me · 02/09/2025Wow, @texty.org published their research about bias and disinformation about #Ukraine in #AI just the other day: texty.org.ua/projects/115... #UkrainianView #StandWithUkraine️ #LLMtexty.org.uaWhat does AI think about Ukraine? Exploring the biases of large language modelsTogether with OpenBabylon, Texty.org.ua formulated 2803 questions about Ukraine in English, asked them to 27 language models, and evaluated their … 44222
Alex @alessio.re · 02/09/2025balkaninsight.comBosnia’s Banja Luka, My Ethnically Cleansed HometownBanja 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. 010
Alex @alessio.re · 26/08/2025We might have to take a hit, but we can’t give in to this bully on principles as well, after giving in on economy. 020
Reposted by AlexJasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Important 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.comA Singer’s Fascist-Era Salute Evokes a Bloody Time in Croatia 0175
Alex @alessio.re · 23/08/2025foreignpolicy.comFrom Berlin to Baghdad on the Ruins of a WWI RailwayThe unfinished line traces a fractured region still beset by competing imperial projects. 000
Alex @alessio.re · 21/08/2025267 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. 000
Reposted by AlexIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/08/2025This 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... 2393749801
Reposted by AlexJoni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 07/07/20251/11 🏅🇷🇺 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 320865
Reposted by AlexByline 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.comThe Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain SightWhile 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 611581
Reposted by AlexTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/08/20251/2. 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. 633146976
Alex @alessio.re · 17/08/2025theins.ruChianti from Medvedev, Montepulciano by Yakunin, and Merlot à la Mikhalkov: A brief guide to the Italian vineyards of Putin’s inner circleMembers 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... 020
Reposted by AlexJasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Croatia 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. 0121
Alex @alessio.re · 01/08/2025atlanticcouncil.orgTrump 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... 000
Reposted by Alexwill 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/8hHYGshorturl.atMystery at the Heart of £1 Billion UK Legal Offensive Against Top Putin AllyA 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? 23014
Alex @alessio.re · 27/07/2025theatlantic.comZelensky Learned the Wrong Lesson From TrumpTrump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact. 010
Reposted by AlexThe Insider @theins.press · 21/07/2025Putin 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.pressPutin sidelined: Russia fails to stop Turkey from reconciling Azerbaijan and ArmeniaOn 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 ... 1419
Reposted by AlexSander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Great 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.euIn transatlantic trade talks, the EU must keep digital policy off the tableThe 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. 25819
Alex @alessio.re · 19/07/2025One 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.comCroatia’s Quiet War in BosniaZagreb’s push for segregation puts the future of democratic Bosnia at risk. 010
Reposted by AlexRussia-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 #Ukraineoc-media.orgNinety Ukrainians now reportedly being held in ‘inhumane’ conditions on Georgian borderGeorgian Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze said that they are not allowed to enter the country. 065
Alex @alessio.re · 12/07/2025From 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.comThirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Serbia has a new generation of war crimes fansThe 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… 020
Alex @alessio.re · 12/07/2025As you would expect, Russia is working this angle hard, but is that much different from what xAI is doing with its own models? 020
Reposted by AlexForeign 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.comGeorgia’s Warning for UkraineA cease-fire alone would hardly end Russia’s quest for dominance. 0159
Reposted by Alexadnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 11/07/2025There 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. 514668
Alex @alessio.re · 09/07/2025Tragic indeed.nin.rs"Eyes wide shut" to fascism: A tragic Image of Zagreb and CroatiaNajnovije vesti i video priče iz Srbije i sveta o najvažnijim događajima iz politike, sporta, biznisa, kulture, zdravlja. Budite uz Nin . 120