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A woman rammed a car into a crowd of anti-government protesters in Serbia’s capital and injured one of them Friday, police said, as a student-led strike shut down businesses and drew tens of thousands of people to demonstrations around the country.

The nationwide protests took place on the same day that President Aleksandar Vucic held a big afternoon rally with thousands of supporters in the central town of Jagodina, his coalition stronghold, to counter the persistent anti-government protests that have challenged his tight grip on power for nearly three months.

Police in Belgrade said that they detained the 24-year-old driver who rammed into a crowd of protesters in a section of the city called New Belgrade. The injured victim, a 26-year-old woman was hospitalized; her condition was described as stable.

The Croatian activists told media in their home country that police came to their hotel and detained them before sending them back home. They said police offered no reason except a document stating the activists represented a threat to Serbia’s security.

It is questionable whether they have the means to organise it.

In October there was a shootout at Russia's largest retailer.

This is not about ownership of the platform, but about largest sellers on it.

As far as ownership is concerned, it's certainly a Ruskiy Mir saga, as this comment from Kadyrov (yes, he's also involved) illustrates: https://meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2024/10/10/in-first-public-comments-on-wildberries-shooting-kadyrov-declares-blood-feud-against-federal-lawmakers-who-he-claims-ordered-his-murder

It is a process that started before the war, but has accelerated now

By comparison to the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea states lacked strong multilateral structures for cooperation. The North and Baltic Sea got the Joint Expeditionary Force led by the UK, though now all 10 of its members are also NATO members, while Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey failed at creating a NATO flotilla in the Black Sea after Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine.

The military dialogue formats within ASEAN, including cyber military valences as well, are also interesting for observers from the wider Black Sea region. In fact, the more we study the region, the more potential we find in regionally developed models on everything from industrial cooperation to common space asset utilisation for disaster management.

Too many speak of balancing between US and Chinese economic interests, and not enough speak about economic partnerships without geopolitical baggage. This is something that the Black Sea region and the Indo-Pacific can offer to each other, in addition to the obvious advantages such as market access.

There are commercial and investment niches where cross-border exchanges by national actors can have a significant economic and secondary impact. One of these is cybersecurity and digitalisation, both regions featuring strong start-up scenes with important midsized companies that could, with appropriate encouragement, expand into the other region. Yet, one visits growing regional events in South-East Asia such as CyberDSA in Kuala Lumpur and no Eastern Europeans are present (and very few Europeans for that matter, unlike Americans or Chinese).

Moreover, municipalities who were supposed to pay a sort of fine to the national recycling agency, EOAN, owe a staggering amount and were excused from paying these fines this year after a near-revolt.

In it Josip Dabei is shown shooting in the air from a car.

I suspect a significant number of politicians in the region have done something similar, but not many would be willing to resign over it.

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Given the few sources of news from the Caucasus, I thought this is an important voice to have.