Balkan watching (catch all)

[OUTLAW 09]

The Kremlin thinks that the massive protests rocking a Balkan nation are an outside job to hurt Russia http://read.bi/1Px5DlC

Developments in Macedonia directed from outside — Russian FM Lavrov http://tass.ru/en/world/795744

[davidbfpo]

Last night, police and intelligence forces in Macedonia raided multiple locations in the small Balkan country, seeking to root out the Islamic State infrastructure that has established a foothold in recent years.

More, even if short:http://20committee.com/2015/08/06/is...-in-macedonia/

[davidbfpo]

Prompted by the next post I have merged three threads here; one referred to Wahhabi activity in the Balkans and a commentary on the Dayton Accords. A free text search found that Bosnia appears in over two hundred threads, but only these threads could be merged.

There is a separate, historical thread on Kosovo Independence, which covered 2008-2010 and it is has been closed:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=4924

[davidbfpo]

A quick overview 'Radicalisation in Bosnia: old wounds reopened by an emerging problem':https://theconversation.com/radicalisation-in-bosnia-old-wounds-reopened-by-an-emerging-problem-63534?

[davidbfpo]

The puzzling story of an attempted coup in Montenegro and maybe a plot to murder the Serbian Prime Minister - with suspected Russian backing and using a criminal gang who'd served in Eastern Ukraine.

Note the report is now eleven days old, "crowded out" by other matters:https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ontenegro-coup