relations between the European Union, America and Russia are changing radically the approach to processes and global challenges. One of the direct encounters with dangerous and between these powers is and remains Balkan.
I. II Rusian influence in the Balkan
Balkan remains an unstable area in Europe. Although security in the region has improved
dramatically since the early ' 90s, ethnic divisions remained open and further went even worst. On the other hand, the region ' s economy has stagnated and the socio-economic welfare of citizens went to the minimum of existence. Political instability of governments and rampant corruption level has caused a large part of young people to lose faith in their countries and to seek fortunes in EU countries or even to wear the military uniform for religious reasons. While the ' rule of law ' is just a term and it is far way from being " Applicable ". All these challenges that can be listed made this part of Europe to be easily vulnerable from Russian manipulation, and all this interior tension Russia is using it especially in some countries in which there are is an uncontested impact. Kremlin after a global offensive, seeks simply to be present in Balkan and in this way to counter the West in his clumsy attempt to integrate Balkan into its protection. Moscow doesn ' t want to eventually extinguish its hope for an exit to the Adriatic. So it tries hard to prevent countries that historically has considered its satellites, to integrate into the EU in particular, into NATO. Russia engages in policy reorientation for these countries.
According to a study by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, is seen an increasing of Kremlin interest towards the Western Balkan countries, in order to prevent the accession of this region into the European Union, with the hope that these countries will withdraw from the membership, or will be affecting member countries to adopt a resolution in favor of Russia. According to a classified document, there are described the efforts of Moscow, which by pretexts such as military cooperation or supply of gas, is exercising a public diplomacy using a Pan-Slavic rhetoric 5.
Russia attaches great strategic importance to the Western Balkan, so it is said in a survey of the German Foreign Ministry entitled: '' Russia ' s influence in Serbia '' 6. This analysis describes
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Putinology and the risk of Russian expasion in Balkan http:// eurospeak. al / speciale / 264-putinologjia-dhe-rreziku-iekspansionit-te-rusise-ne-ballkan
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The russian risk in Balkan and Kosovars exile; Rafael Floqi http:// illyriapress. com / rreziku-rus-ne-ballkan-dhemergimi-i-kosovareve /
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