The prospect of a settlement between Athens and Skopje and further expansion of the Atlantic Alliance, as well as the prospect of the EU embarking on membership talks with yet another local country, undercuts Russian influence in the Balkans, writes Dr. Dimitar Bechev, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.
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Hybrid CoE Strategic Analysis
Hybrid CoE Strategic Analysis 11: Understanding Russia’s Influence in the Western Balkans
by Dr. Dimitar Bechev
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