Monthly Archives: March 2021

Rasim Zlatan Prste, Sarajevo: Straws of salvation in quicksand

The time has finally come to get serious, but under one condition - that we still know how to make a joke. Rasim Zlatan Prste 'I've got a birth defect - I was born in the Balkans', so joked the famous Mostar comedian Osman Dziho at his own expense, though

2021-03-31T21:28:05+00:00March 31st, 2021|Vicinities chronicles|0 Comments

Voja Zanetic: You have got to (not) be kidding me

A serious day is seriously needed. Urgently. And I have got to not be joking when I say this, regardless of April Fools. Voja Zanetic Led by the continuing need to prevent a decline in economic activity while  enabling a decline in the number of the newly infected, the Crisis

2021-03-31T21:52:09+00:00March 31st, 2021|Columns|0 Comments

Ifet Feraget: There’s no one to fight corruption

Ifet Feraget, lawyer specialising in criminal law, says that his many years of representing aggrieved families in the murders of Dzenan Memic in Sarajevo and David Dragicevic in Banja Luka have led him to realise there is no effective fight against prosecutors who are deeply corrupt and involved in illegal

2021-03-23T23:11:32+00:00March 23rd, 2021|video en|0 Comments

Natasa Nelevic: Women’s Museum in a cultural ghetto

Natasa Nelevic, theatre critic and writer, launched the digital Women's Museum in 2011 in collaboration with NGO Nova. The museum collects, values, and publicly presents documents about the lives of women throughout Montenegrin history. In this video she discusses obstacles faced on the journey to realising the idea of the

2021-03-23T23:09:55+00:00March 23rd, 2021|video en|0 Comments

Olivera Djordjievska: It’s difficult, but I’m not giving up

Single mother Olivera Djordjievska, talks about the coronavirus-induced crisis which worsened the already complicated circumstances of single parents in North Macedonia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXZxpevc6ic

2021-03-23T23:09:33+00:00March 23rd, 2021|video en|0 Comments

Miodrag Majic, Belgrade: A society of devastated institutions

The harmonised cooperation of populist methods and the cultural pattern contributes to the general impression that, when it comes to rule of law, present day Serbia is much closer to archaic oriental despotism than to modern, manifestly desired Europe. Miodrag Majic For most citizens, the tale of rule of law

2021-03-23T23:08:48+00:00March 23rd, 2021|Vicinities chronicles|0 Comments

Amarildo Gutić, Sarajevo: Judges and prosecutors, party ‘capo dei capi’

Political elites have figured out what is to be done, following an old recipe from Sicily. They are slowly but surely infiltrating their people into the police and justice systems. And for those who offer resistance - blackmail, bribery, media harangue will follow. Amarildo Gutic Recently, the Zenica Museum gave

2021-03-23T23:08:28+00:00March 23rd, 2021|Vicinities chronicles|0 Comments
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