National Primer or a primer on nationalism
It will be a kind of mandatory military service in schools, a tool for mental training, a new textbook of arrogance and weaning from objectivity – a poorly disguised incentive for intolerance.
You don’t dig digging?
The master of all trades didn’t like it when experts started expressing their opinions. He hurried among the ignorant to explain everything himself before the true information reached them.
No one’s victims
DwP – The trial against Croatian pilots initiated in Belgrade, which, according to the Humanitarian Law Center, initially reached the media, is now unavailable to the public and surrounded by ambiguities.
Lithium, c’est moi
The president explained that citizens are being lied to by everyone. He was surrounded by trees and grass. He was (supposedly) relaxed, unconcerned that anything could spoil the lithium plans.
The Dominance of Hostility
DwP – Both in Serbia and in Kosovo, we witness the strengthening of nationalism and right-wing populism and the constant production of crises, tensions, and fear of the Other.
It never happened
DwP – For seven years, from 1990 to 1997, the truth stood before the Serbian residents, but instead they were fixated on their “authoritarian regime” and its stories about “national suffering.”
The all-Serbian manipulation of the crime committed in the name of the Serbs
DwP – The denial of the genocide in Srebrenica has gained a new interpretation, in which Serbs are actually the biggest (and only) victims.
The mine or your health, the choice is yours
Is it possible to mine lithium safely? Serbia, as a society, is not capable of organising an extensive, reasoned discussion on that topic.
Scorpion venom
The documentary made by the Scorpions themselves in July 1995 was part of their archive which they intended to show off after the war – when such criminals would be promoted to national heroes.
Stolen lives
DwP – By not prosecuting the war crime of the mass murder of Roma in Skočić, the thread of racism against Roma weaves into the statements and actions of Serbian officials today.
Local elections in Turkey: A “yellow card” to Erdoğan
Erdoğan’s defeat in the local elections raises questions about the long-term viability of his leadership and the AKP’s dominance.
A vortex of violence
The other day, my younger daughter told me that her friends, celebrating the end of middle school, wanted to make T-shirts saying: “We don’t care about your Škodas, we have Lamborghinis.”
I believe in Niš
There is no reason to interpret opposition’s election results in Niš as a sign of broader positive change like in 1996/97. These are different times. Though the regimes are the same.
With a little help from my friends
The UN General Assembly adopted the resolution to commemorate 1995 Srebrenica genocide. There seems to have been very little reflection on this topic in Serbia.
I’d rather be dead than a victim of genocide!
Serbia itself confirmed, although not by saying the word, but only indirectly, that genocide was committed in Srebrenica. It did so on March 31, 2010.
Wheeling and dealing
Citizens of Serbia, both individually or collectively, must make a decision. They are confronted with a regime mired in crime on one side, and a helpless and self-destructive opposition on the other.
A grotesque caricature
The Ministry of Interior (mis)informed the public that D.D. died of natural causes. If the expert’s report confirms that he died as a result of a beating, we are dealing with a deliberate deception.
Everyone keeps talking about Banjska
Macron and Vučić were simply merchants. This time, Vučić, as a buyer, did not come to Paris only for airplanes, a nuclear reactor… He also came for some positive propaganda.
Dačić’s referendum
It doesn’t matter if Dačić is in favour of the death penalty, it’s not even a question if a referendum would be supported. It is crucial it could not even be called in Serbia for legal reasons.
30 wasted years
There’s almost no Mostar Croat who would say that ethnic cleansing in the western part of the city and the camps did not happen and it’s impossible to find a person who hadn’t helped someone.
Crime that does (not) exist
In its Strategy for combating high-tech crime, the Ministry of the Interior doesn’t consider worth mentioning the fight against cyber violence affecting adults, primarily women.
The ghosts of international investigation
Why does Serbia not want to cooperate with the international investigation if state authorities did not participate in election theft? That is the only question that the Prime Minister must answer.
This is a private state and a private police force
You have a lesbian in the position with the greatest power but no one has ever been held accountable for threatening the safety and life of LGBTIQ persons.
(Not so) local elections in Turkey
Turkey will go to the polls on 31 March 2024 to elect local administrators. However, these elections will have political and social consequences far beyond the election of mayors.
Bastards
Vladimir Đukanović fiercely criticized the citizens of Serbia mourning the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. He called them “bastards” and “left liberals”.
Markale
DwP – February 5th was forever marked on Sarajevo’s memory map simply and undeniably as – Markale. That day 68 residents of besieged Sarajevo were killed, and almost 200 were wounded.
An untold (secret) story
Mauser was telling me about the dismissal of Stanišić and the arrival of Rade Marković and his boss Mira Marković at the head of state security. He told me that she ordered the murder of Ćuruvija.
Mr. Serbia
Your job, prof. Bilčík was told in Strasbourg when he took over this position from McAllister, is not to make the political system in Serbia more functional and more European.
Don’t read that
Is the trial meant to show us that the state has an answer and that it did not fall apart on May 3rd? The regime fired us up and encouraged us to seek revenge.
Maglaj, truth and propaganda
DwP – Maglaj is a municipality in Central Bosnia known for being a place where all three armies clashed, formed and switched alliances between the autumn of 1992 and winter of 1994.
Magic mountain
A. Vučić arrived in Davos as a branded autocrat, the leader of a band of thugs and ne’er-do-wells, the one who stole the election and extinguished the fundamental democratic rights of the citizens.
Never say sorry
In the year of 2024, three decades after the war, apologizing to the Bosniaks for the crimes committed is out of the question for Serbian officials. This little phrase seems further than ever.
