Russia’s Centre for Disaster Response in Serbia. Disaster Diplomacy as Soft Power

Biser Banchev

Europe-Asia Studies, 2025, vol. 77, issue 8, 1231-1254

Abstract: The Russian–Serbian Humanitarian Centre, located at the airport in Niš, has been part of Russia’s soft-power strategy to create a network of Moscow-controlled disaster-relief hubs across the world and, specifically in this case, to strengthen its regional influence in the Balkans. In this way, Russia sought to accumulate symbolic capital, to be used as a hybrid tool in geopolitical competition. This strategy failed in Southeast Europe, where the Centre in Niš shadowed the rise and fall of Russian soft power overall in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Date: 2025
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