—🇷🇸🤝🇷🇺 NEW: Serbia's Caretaker Interior Minister Ivica Dačić met Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev to discuss security issues and bilateral cooperation.

➡️ Dačić reaffirmed Belgrade’s independent foreign policy and thanked Moscow for its support of Serbia’s sovereignty in international organisations.

🔗 Dunav Intel

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—😒🇷🇴 NEW: Anthropic strikes deal with startup co-founded by Romanian researchers.

➡️ Opaque Systems, co-founded by Raluca Ada Popa and Ion Stoica, says members of its team are joining Anthropic and that the company is winding down its operations.

➡️ The US startup develops technology that lets organisations use sensitive data in AI systems while protecting its confidentiality and verifying how those systems operate.

🔗 Opaque’s announcement

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—🇷🇸 NEW: Serbian Defense Minister visited the Sloboda plant in Čačak, meeting its management and touring facilities that manufacture shell casings and assemble ammunition ranging from 76mm to 155mm.

🔗 Dunav Intel

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—🇭🇷/🇨🇳 NEW: President Zoran Milanović met Chinese FM Wang Yi in Zagreb and reaffirmed Croatia’s support for the one-China policy, according to his office.

🔗 Croatian Presidency Statement

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