Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Serbia.
In his essay āBetween Concealed Hatred and Open Quarrelling,ā Nenad KecmanoviÄ, a Bosnian Serb political scientist and former member of Bosnia and…
Every year on 11 July, the public sphere across the former Yugoslavia becomes, almost without fail, the arena for the same long-predictable…
With the collapse of the ceasefire with Iran, renewed American airstrikes, and widening cracks within the Western alliance dominating the headlines, the…
In Podgorica, a new edition of Å piro KuliÅ”iÄās booklet On the Ethnogenesis of the Montenegrins has been published by the Dukljan Academy…
There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their contentābecause they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the darker…
In the seventeenth month of a student-led mass movement in Serbia, the death of a student at the Faculty of Philosophy triggered…
Surviving repeated threats of being buried alive, the EUās first ever law on soil health was finally adopted last month. And while…
Three decades after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to function as the worldās most elaborate political…
The Student Blockade Movement in Serbia emerged in the midst of a broader student, secondary school, and civic uprising, which erupted in…
Serbia is a small country which used to be a favorite of Western Allied powers like France and Britain for its heroic…
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