By Ivan Toth
Operation Market Garden began shortly before midnight on Saturday, 16 September 1944, when 200 Lancaster bombers and 23 Mosquito fighter-bombers from RAF command took off and bombed four German airfields in northern Netherlands. This was followed by bombing by 822 B-17 bombers (“Flying Fortresses”) from the 8th Air Force, targeting 117 identified…
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By Ivan Toth
Operation Market Garden, which included the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, was the largest airborne operation in military history, surpassing even Operation Mercury, the German airborne invasion of Crete in 1941, which is generally regarded as the only successful strategic airborne operation of the Second World War. At the same time,…
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In the 50th episode of the Actualitica Podcast, the guest is one of the most promising young politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a city councilor in the City Council of Mostar, and the political secretary of the Croatian Republican Party (HRS), Slavko Zovko.
The topic of the episode is the political reality of Croatia…
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The Editor-in-Chief of Actualitica, Matija Šerić, appeared on Friday, June 5, on the Svijet programme broadcast by Federal Television (FTV), where he analysed the current security and geopolitical situation in Armenia, its position between Russia, Azerbaijan and the West, as well as the consequences of the changing regional balance of power.
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By Matija Šerić
What the biggest Knicks fans had been hoping for has happened: New York won a dramatic second game of the NBA Finals against San Antonio 105:104 and took a 2–0 lead in the series. Even the biggest skeptics and Knicks haters can now admit that the team from the Big Apple is…
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By Matija Šerić
Today, the coastal Montenegrin city of Tivat is hosting the multilateral EU–Western Balkans Summit. The event, accompanied by enormous media attention (the largest political gathering ever held in independent Montenegro), is expected to bring major changes for the six Western Balkan countries—Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania—which have…
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Battle for Armenia: Yerevan Between Moscow and Washington
By Matija Šerić One of the states with a very specific position in the international political arena is the Republic of Armenia. In recent years, Yerevan has found itself in a dangerous geopolitical in-between space between Russia and the West. Since the current Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came to power in 2018, he has…
Battle for Armenia: Yerevan Between Moscow and Washington
By Matija Šerić One of the states with a very specific position in the international political arena is the Republic of Armenia. In recent years, Yerevan has found itself in a dangerous geopolitical in-between space between Russia and the West. Since the current Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came to power in 2018, he has…
