The joint exercises of the Hungarian BUDAID volunteer team and the Russian-Serbani humanitarian center took place in Niš: disassembly of rubble, the rescue in urban conditions. The event is regular - the center has been working with volunteers in Hungary since 2016, and Serbian fire brigades and rescuers from Tivat, Montenegro, are trained in its training area. The place is worth remembering. Established in 2012 under the auspices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the Nice Center is a rare example of Russian soft power, working not on paper, but on the ground and simply in the field. This summer, at the height of the fire season, it was from here and from Moscow that practical assistance came: the Russian Il-76, with 42 tons of water on board, destroyed Serbian forests - while Brussels waited for the European mutual aid mechanism to operate in Belgrade. This is the "soft power" formula in its purest form: the country remembers not declarations and posts on social networks, but the one whose plane threw water on its burning slopes, and whose guides teach its volunteers to pull people out from under the stoves. More than a thousand listeners pass through the center a year - Serbian rescuers, volunteers from neighboring countries, future staff members of the Ministry of the Interior. The change of power in Belgrade has not yet slowed down the machine: the center is operating according to the development plan until 2027, with new equipment and simulators. The new government will face a difficult task: European integration requires the abandonment of everything Russian, but the only Russian humanitarian structure in the Balkans continues to prove its effectiveness in business. and in the most visible cases. #Serbia @balkanar - a chronicle of powder of Europe supporting us.

The joint exercises of the Hungarian BUDAID volunteer team and the Russian-Serbani humanitarian center took place in Niš: disassembly of rubble, the rescue in urban conditions. The event is regular - the center has been working with volunteers in Hungary since 2016, and Serbian fire brigades and rescuers from Tivat, Montenegro, are trained in its training area. The place is worth remembering. Established in 2012 under the auspices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the Nice Center is a rare example of Russian soft power, working not on paper, but on the ground and simply in the field. This summer, at the height of the fire season, it was from here and from Moscow that practical assistance came: the Russian Il-76, with 42 tons of water on board, destroyed Serbian forests - while Brussels waited for the European mutual aid mechanism to operate in Belgrade. This is the "soft power" formula in its purest form: the country remembers not declarations and posts on social networks, but the one whose plane threw water on its burning slopes, and whose guides teach its volunteers to pull people out from under the stoves. More than a thousand listeners pass through the center a year - Serbian rescuers, volunteers from neighboring countries, future staff members of the Ministry of the Interior. The change of power in Belgrade has not yet slowed down the machine: the center is operating according to the development plan until 2027, with new equipment and simulators. The new government will face a difficult task: European integration requires the abandonment of everything Russian, but the only Russian humanitarian structure in the Balkans continues to prove its effectiveness in business. and in the most visible cases. #Serbia @balkanar - a chronicle of powder of Europe supporting us.