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—❗️🇷🇸(🇧🇦) /🇷🇺 BREAKING: Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik to meet Sergei Shoigu during Moscow Security Forum. Dodik will attend the 13th International Security Meeting in Moscow, where he is scheduled to hold talks with Russia’s Security Council Secretary…
—🇷🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik arrives in Moscow despite active arrest warrant.

Dodik, wanted by Bosnian authorities, attends 13th International Security Meeting and is scheduled to meet Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu.

📰 Source: The National Independent

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📱 Dear friends, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new YouTube channel dedicated to the Balkans!

This new platform will go beyond the headlines — diving into the region’s rich history, identity, and fascinating curiosities that often go unnoticed. If you're already enjoying the news content here on Telegram, you'll love the deeper stories we're telling on YouTube.

🎥 Our first videos are already live — come take a look and subscribe to support this exciting new chapter!

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🔥 This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. Elon Musk and I have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s chatbot Grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps 🤝

💪 This also strengthens Telegram’s financial position: we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram 💰

Telegram + Grok = ❤️📈🏆
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🇬🇷/🇹🇷 Today marks the 572th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople.
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—❗️🇷🇺/🇷🇸/🇺🇦 BREAKING: Russian Intelligence accuses Serbia of covertly supplying ammunition to Ukraine despite claiming neutrality.

SVR reports Serbian firms delivered hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and millions of small arms rounds to Ukraine, calling it a betrayal amid Western efforts to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia.

📰 Source: The National Independent

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—🇷🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik arrives in Moscow despite active arrest warrant. Dodik, wanted by Bosnian authorities, attends 13th International Security Meeting and is scheduled to meet Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu.…
—🇷🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu met with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik in Moscow.

The two officials discussed regional security developments and strengthening bilateral ties amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.

📰 Source: The National Independent

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—🇽🇰/🇷🇸 NEW: Kosovo’s Defense Minister states that 70% of Serbia's military capacity is deployed in the south, near the border with Kosovo.

Ejup Maqedonci affirmed that Serbia has 48 forward operating bases and 20 gendarmerie positions posing a direct threat to Kosovo’s sovereignty. However, he also said that he does he did not want to raise concerns over an inminent threat to Kosovo's integrity as his interview was focused on the Defender Europe 25 exercise and the part where he talks about the Serbian military presence near Kosovo lasts only about one minute, while the interview lasted 30 minutes. He wrote a post about this and you can read it here.

📰 Source: A2 CNN

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—🇲🇰/🇬🇧 NEW: North Macedonia signs €6 billion Government-to-Government investment deal with the United Kingdom.

The strategic agreement secures UK Export Finance support for infrastructure projects in North Macedonia, including railways, hospitals, and energy development, with up to €6 billion in funding under favorable terms.

📰 Source: British Government

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—🇷🇸/🇪🇺 NEW: Serbia officially joins the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), becoming its 41st member.

The National Bank of Serbia confirmed full EU compliance, with SEPA system implementation expected by May 2026—enabling efficient, low-cost euro transactions with all SEPA countries.

📰 Source: Serbian Times

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—❗️🇷🇺/🇷🇸/🇺🇦 BREAKING: Russian Intelligence accuses Serbia of covertly supplying ammunition to Ukraine despite claiming neutrality. SVR reports Serbian firms delivered hundreds of thousands of artillery shells and millions of small arms rounds to Ukraine,…
—❗️🇷🇸/🇺🇦/🇷🇺 UPDATE: Serbia to suspend arms exports possibly diverted to Ukraine after Russian intelligence accusations.

President Vučić responded to SVR claims that Serbian weapons reached Ukrainian forces via third countries, affirming contracts will be frozen if such misuse is confirmed.

📰 Source: The Insider

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—❗️🇷🇸 URGENT: Vučić signals early elections in Serbia after EXPO preparations are complete.

President Vučić stated, “Let’s finish preparations for EXPO first, then we will call early elections,” during a visit to Zaječar, indicating elections may follow completion of strategic EXPO tasks.

📰 Source: Tanjug

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—🇨🇴/🇦🇱 NEW: Colombian President accuses Albanian-led cartel of attempted assassination plot.

President Gustavo Petro claims a transnational criminal group headed by Albanian Dritan Gjika tried to kill him and is linked to the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci.

📰 Source: Koha

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🇷🇴🪖⚡️ I.A.R. Ghimbav in partnership with the French Airbus Helicopters Romania is creating a new production line for Airbus' new generation of helicopters

Minister of the Economy, Bogdan Ivan, announced that I.A.R. Ghimbav will be manufacturing Airbus' H215M helicopter and replace the obsolete fleet of Puma (IAR 330) and IAR 316B helicopters Romania still operates.

The Puma and IAR 316B helicopters are of French designed as the technology and plans were acquired by the communist regime in 1974 through a partnership with Airbus'. 160 Puma helicopters were produced by I.A.R. Ghimbav with another 200 IAR 316B, most of whom ended up being exported to other countries including France, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Angola.

Romania is looking to replace the fleet of Puma/IAR 330 helicopters with the H215M model meaning around 60 H215Ms should be ordered from IAR Ghimbav.

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Tomorrow at 12h Athens time I'll be sharing a deep thought from a good friend of the channel. Enjoy your Saturday night!
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"I do not believe that any of us have dreams that were not given to us for the purpose of accomplishing those particular dreams."

We are living in peculiar times. The identity of Bosnia is slowly being eroded. The identity of all Europeans is being evaporated.

Today more so than ever it is important to realize that the only person who will look out for your self interest, is yourself.

In 2023, out of 189 suicides in the Federation; 152 were men. Half of them, over the age of 60. While this may seem a small number, this phenomena is spreading globally and skewing younger.

Today, more so than ever - the ability to protect heritage and culture comes down to the individual's determination to survive. When someone brings the fight physically to you, it is instinctive to fight back. It's why politicians constantly project fear. The reality is that we live in incredibly peaceful times yet we are psychologically bombarded on a daily and an individual basis.

For some of you reading this, you might have a miserable life. You might be financially poor. Hungry. Sad. Exhausted. Angry. You might be wallowing in your despair and an endless tunnel of hopelessness. In these times, it is up to you to survive. Suicide is failure. It is a peaceful wartime casualty. The silent surrender of culture and heritage.

"In the process of working on your dreams, you will incur a lot of disappointment, a lot of failure, a lot of pain, a lot of setbacks, a lot of defeats.

While in the process of doing that you will discover some things about yourself that you don't know right now. What you will realize is, that you have greatness within you, what you will realize is, that you're more powerful than you can ever begin to imagine.

What you will realize is, you are greater than your circumstances. That you don't have to go through life as a victim."
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🇸🇮🇭🇷 If given the choice, would Slovenia and Croatia be more inclined to join a hypothetical federation inspired by the former Austro-Hungarian Empire—under a new name inclusive of all successor states—or would they prefer to be part of a potential Balkan Federation?

Any thoughts? Share them with us through our bot @Balkanic_Bot and we will share the most interesting ones!
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😱 OpenAI’s survival plan: Hide the top nerds before doomsday

OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever pitched the idea of building a bunker to shelter top tech minds from “rapture” – the chaos that might follow the release of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), according to a new book.

Mind you, AGI – a kind of AI that wouldn’t just rival humans, but surpass them – isn’t here yet, we’re still in the era of “narrow AI” with limited scope.

“Once we all get into the bunker…” he reportedly let drop in mid-2023.
“Uh... the bunker?” someone asked.
“We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI,” Sutskever said.


The bunker often came up in OpenAI meetings, according to journalist Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI.

Let’s not forget: CEO Sam Altman also signed a 2023 letter warning AGI could be an “extinction-level” threat.

Looks like they’re prepping for fallout.

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