Milos Katic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
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?