When one has witnessed not only a colour revolution in her own country (Macedonia, 2015ā2016) but also sensed its arrival during Ukraineās Euromaidan in…
These are difficult times for anyone who has consistently criticised NATO. From the era of ādefending the Free Worldā against communism, through…
When law graduates and students (joined by participants from neighbouring Kosovo and Albania) marched through Skopje in recent days demanding the right…
Chinaās conduct in the UN Security Council often disappoints those who expect it to openly confront what they see as an unrestrained…
We are living through times where the architecture of global peace is not merely crumbling; it is being deliberately dismantled. The drums…
These days, I find myself thinking of a character from the old Yugoslav partisan film Battle of Sutjeska. The film is dedicated to…
Anyone from the former Yugoslavia will immediately understand the title. Mujo is a legendary (though fictional) Bosnian character, the protagonist (together with…
The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that…
A passage from Margaret Atwoodās The Handmaidās Tale haunts me often: āThat was when they suspended the Constitutionā¦ There wasnāt even any rioting in…
A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and…
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