Putin aims to turn Albania back on the basis of destabilising the Balkans. A threat threatened by Russian DPA financing

According to this daily, the destabilisation of the Balkans has already turned into the primary goal of Russian foreign policy, as the integration of our region would complete a solid European bloc from Scandinavian to the Aegean.

Russia is unable to face this block. Its only chance in front of Europe is to deal with other states at”, writes “among other things. Independent”, which focuses on the following writing on developments in Albania.

According to this newspaper, it is no coincidence that at the moment Russia appears very aggressive in its foreign policy, one million dollars were found overnight to finance the DP's campaign.

So, “Independent” concludes that the DP's “afration with Trump administration, thanks to Russian funds, would create in the pro-American Albanians the feeling that this force was the US administration's favorite, giving an advantage in the election.

But, the picture goes on, concluding that: “if the Democratic Party had defeated the ruling Socialists under Edi Rama there would have been a complete confrontation with Brussels and Albanian EU hopes would have been torn apart”.

In the article, an importance is also given to the property process, for which it reads: “The EU foreign policy Coka, Federica Moghrini, also faced the insults of Berisha's successor, Lulzim Basha, when she insisted on replacing suspicious judges who had worked on the basis of friendship with Democratic Party politicians”.

Read the full article of the “The Independent” in Albanian, or original in the link attached at the bottom of this page:

Why is a Balkans in the EU a big problem for Putin?

Viewing itself increasingly out of the West in Syria, Vladimir Putin is turning his eyes towards a much larger price in his permanent obsession to undermine Europe's geopolitical cohesion.

As Russia's leading international ideologist Sergei Karaganov stated: “in the last decade, the world has witnessed the end of the 500-year hegemony of the West”.

Russia is determined to speed up this end by encouraging any movement that weakens the European Union's cohesion.

“Der Spiegel” reports that the German Intelligence Service BND, MI5's equivalent, has evidence that the Rus hackers supported separatist forces in Catalonia.

A division of Spain, immediately after Brex, weakens the unity of the EU, which is a major goal of the Kremlin's foreign policy.

After crushing the Germans in 1945 and taking over half of Europe, Russia felt as if there was finally hegemonic power in its European garden.

Britain, under a very anti-communist labist government led by patriots and distrustous stones to Moscow like Clement Attlee and Ernest Bwin, formed an alliance with Washington since, unlike the 1920s, kept US “anchored” in Europe.

But NATO was not as important as the European economic integration that started in 1950 and gradually involved all Western European states until 1990.

The Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal, tanks and ships in rust, the generals who had been stripped of medals could not preserve Russia's absolute power, while communist Europe managed to see the quality and quality life of the European Union citizens and decided they wanted it.

Russia could afford distant America in bilateral relations, but could not bear the idea of a united Europe speaking unanimously of the Crimea, when it sanctioned Gazprom or when supporting Britain in terms of poisonings in Salisbury.

Putin prefers bilateral relations with individual nations in Europe and cannot stand the idea of 28 nations agreeing on any kind of common foreign policy for the economy or for security.

So the Kremlin helped the anti-party - The EU, like the National Front in France, tried to manipulate social media during the “Brexit” campaign.

Europe's division into individual nations and states, which are pressured, are torn apart by one or mixed with bilateral energy pacts replacing EU multilateralism is the main goal of Russian politics.

The upcoming battle will be in the Western Balkans, where the EU has already said that after nearly two decades of waiting for EU membership, the six countries -- the six countries, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia -- expect to membership by 2025.

Their total population is only 18 million or so nearly the size of Austria and Hungary. As Ireland, Portugal and Greece were transformed when they joined Europe, and Poland's GDP, which was 50% of the EU average when it joined Europe in 2004, and today it is 75%, these small Southeast European countries can hope that EU entry will be transformative.

The last thing the Kremlin would like is the European integration of the Balkans and the formation of an inseparable chain of EU member states from the Aegean to the Alps.

From now on, the Kremlin is using Serbia as bait supporting Serbian incidents that refuse to admit that Kosovo will not return to its former status as a Serb-controlled province ruled by Belgrade.

Russia continues to play the Slavic and Orthodox charter against the Muslim majority of the state of Kosovo.

Russian news agency “Sputnik” has great fame in Belgrade, and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has established a humanitarian aid centre in Serbia, equipped with uniformed personnel that create doubts and may be soldiers.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic takes Russian lessons every morning and was among the few foreign leaders present in Moscow at the inauguration ceremony of President Putin's fourth presidential mandate earlier this month.

Now Russia is turning its attention to Albania, where the energetic and successful Socialist Prime Minister in the electorate, Edi Rama, trained as an artist in France, is hoping to receive approval of “BE27” to start membership negotiations early.

A key requirement from Brussels is for Albania to clear up the judicial system, replacing judges accused of corruption during the long-right direction with the Democratic Party, whose permanent leader, Sali Berisha, who led post-communist Albania towards a terrible financial whirlwind, when he allowed the prosperity of pyramid schemes that cost hundreds of thousands of Albanians the investments of a lifetime.

The EU's foreign policy head, Federica Moghrini, faced the insults of Berisha's successor, Lulzim Basha, when she insisted on replacing suspicious judges who had been working on the basis of friendship with Democratic Party politicians.

Basha accused him of speaking “qura” because she dared insist on EU demand that justice be cleansed. Instead, the DP leader went to America to seek support from the Trump administration.

$85,000 was paid to an American lobbyist to take Basha in photo with President Trump on a charity event. The question is, who paid $8875,000?

Investigations by “BIRN” (“Balkan Investigative Reporting Netek”), and “Herald” in Glasgou, all indicate from pro-Putin oligarch money that has been channeled through a shell company in Edinburgh given a headquarters lobby firm in Washington.

Almost overnight, the Albanian Democratic Party, used to bring the latter closer to Trump's administration, was given nearly a million dollars, hoping that Albanian pro-American voters would support the party that was closer to Trump.

If the Democratic Party had defeated the ruling Socialists under Edi Rama, there would have been a complete confrontation with Brussels, and Albanian hopes for the EU would have been shattered.

This fits Russian efforts to keep the Western Balkans as unstable as possible and prevent the EU from normalising the region.

Today, EU leaders are meeting with leaders of the Western Balkans in Bulgaria. Brussels will avoid providing any membership date until Western Balkan countries promote <x0-connection”, a new European word for “achievement”.

There are many factors that play a role, including disputes between Athens and Skopje over Macedonia's name, that could curb EU membership for the six Western Balkan countries.

But, for Russia, keeping this corner of Europe as unstable as possible is already part of its Europeanism.

https://ww.independent.co.uk/voices/putin-balkan-countries-eujoin-russia-pro-serbia-albia-a835566.html