Accelerated expansion of NATO into the Balkans as a consequence of Euro-Atlantic Discord by S. Gajić, E. G. Ponomareva

“…Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia crossed Russia’s red lines and exposed the latter’s ambitions to regain the superpower status; China symbolically showed the same ambition with the Olympics in Beijing; the crash of the US real-estate market triggered the global economic crisis; and the NATO-sponsored unilateral declaration of secession by Kosovo Albanians set a precedent and introduced uncertainty in international law and the entire system of United Nations. …”
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Echo- and B-Type Natriuretic Peptide-Guided Follow-Up versus Symptom-Guided Follow-Up: Comparison of the Outcome in Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients by Gani Bajraktari, Nicola Riccardo Pugliese, Andreina D’Agostino, Gian Marco Rosa, Pranvera Ibrahimi, Luan Perçuku, Mario Miccoli, Gian Giacomo Galeotti, Iacopo Fabiani, Roberto Pedrinelli, Michael Henein, Frank L. Dini

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent extremism and organized crime in the Republic of Serbia by Đorić Marija, Životić Ilija

“…All the fundamental issues on which the extreme right-wingers built their ideology (such as Kosovo and Metohija, the friend-enemy dichotomy) were pushed aside during the pandemic, in order to actualize the problems concerning the "infestation of migrants", conspiracy theories, vaccinations, 5G networks and of panic fear for the survival of the nation. …”
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