Mirjana Najchevska / 02 Mar 2022
Rebranding Russia for War
North Macedonia’s News Media
One of the simplest ways to influence a wider number of people is to glorify a country.(...)
Serbia
The Battleground / 08 Nov 2021
Letter to Vladimir Bilčík
Petition to the European Parliament
On the occasion of your visit to Montenegro, we are writing to you to share our deep concern about the clericalisation of Montenegrin society, the suppression of media freedoms, the collapse of the concept of a civil state, multicultural society and many human rights violations.(...)
The Battleground / 29 Oct 2021
Letter to Oana Cristina Popa and Catherine Wendt
Montenegrins Petition the European Commission
We are a representative group of concerned Montenegrin citizens – academics, activists, journalists and intellectuals of all genders. We do not represent any single political party or civic group in Montenegro, but we support and defend Montenegro’s status as a secular, multi-ethnic and anti-fascist society, which we believe is being threatened and even dismantled by the current government.(...)
Srdja Pavlovic / 20 Oct 2021
Montenegro in Crisis
Serbian Nationalist Threats
A few days ago, Montenegro’s Democratic Front (DF) issued its most significant threat to date to their partners in the ruling coalition.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 28 Jul 2021
Antifascist Montenegro
Eighty Years of Resistance
Montenegro is a study in contrasts: a proudly traditional culture that adopts the latest technology and trends with ease; a rugged, mountainous topology that drops dramatically to the gentle Adriatic Sea via modern highways and old, winding roads; and a climate of baking dry heat in the summer, turning to cooling rain and snow-topped peaks in the winter. (...)
Drasko Duranovic / 15 Jun 2021
The Urine Stench of Freedom
Montenegro in Crisis
His name doesn't matter. He is from Niksic, but he could be from any city of this new "liberated" Montenegro.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 28 Sep 2020
Change Comes to Montenegro
Resisting the Call of Nationalism
We arrived late in the evening by car from Brussels to Podgorica. No small feat, given the length of the journey and borders closing due to Coronavirus. We found ourselves following the Israeli cycling team out of Belgium’s Ardennes.(...)
Maxim Edwards / 08 Apr 2020
The Coronavirus Dictatorship Plan
Orbán’s Viral Gambit
As Hungary gets to grips with fighting the coronavirus pandemic, strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is in the spotlight of another international scandal. (...)
Heather McRobie / 09 Sep 2019
Sarajevo to the West
Susan Sontag’s War
When Zdravko Grebo, a legal scholar at the University of Sarajevo, died this year, it seemed to many Sarajevans the end of an era: the last of his generation, of dissident, socialist anti-fundamentalist Bosnian thinkers who embodied the best of Yugoslav dynamism and spoke to the hope – as Sarajevo has often stood for – that Europe can carve out a space between totalitarianism and late capitalism alike.(...)