Russian influence in the Balkans, partly successful

There are many people in the Balkans worried about instability there and it is good within the power of the people in the Balkans, trying to stop bad things from happening and turn on the best way for European integration”, Cerwer said, broadcast the news.net

Montenegro is one of the states to be followed by other Balkan states, even though it does not like Russia, according to him.

There is nothing in this report that people in the Balkans don't know. There's been a crash from time to time, but it takes great care not to get these collisions to happen and move safely towards integration”.

“Balkan also has many extremists, both Islamists and local nationalists who like guns and clashes with their enemies. I think it's important here that the Council for Foreign Relations, for the first time in many years, has listed the Balkans as a problem”.

Asked about the American interest in “Russia's growing influence in this region”, he replied:

I think people are concerned about it, but not only in that region, people are worried about Eastern Europe, as well as Poland, they are concerned about the destabilising Russian efforts even in the Baltic countries. I would say this is a global concern and the Balkans is just one of the<x1 regions.

He also, according to the N1, said the Russians are “partially successful, but not much”.

Asked about the comment of the former High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Petritsch's statement on the country that was the weakest link in the Western Balkans, Serwer said the Austrian diplomat was the essentially correct “”.

The Kosovo peace process has gone a little faster than the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They suffer from the constitution that makes the country extremely difficult to govern and that's very difficult to fix. Most of the third in parliament, so Bosnia is the weakest link and the Russians like to attack the weakest link, and you see they do so in their support for Milorad Dodik in particular,” said Serwer.

The Hague's “Tribunal has not brought any kind of reconciliation to the Balkans, they tend to increase instead of reducing tensions. That certainly was not the goal of creating this Tribunal”, he said, when asked about the situation in the Balkans in the continuation of the recent trials in the trials of Ratko Mladic and Jadranko Prlic.