Ahmici, 30 years later
At dawn on April 16, 1993, members of the Military Police and the “Jokers”, a special unit of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO), attacked the central Bosnian village of Ahmici near Vitez.
Not in our name – 30 years since the Ahmici atrocities
In the early morning hours of April 16, 1993, local Croatian Defence Council units launched an attack on the village of Ahmici near Vitez.
Resurrection of Christ: victory for the Serbian and Russian world
The Easter Epistle of the Serbian Orthodox Church calls on the faithful to rejoice, not to be afraid, and to be brave…
Pressure
The institutions are still silent about the case of two female deputy prosecutors who complained that they were removed from their departments and harassed by the High Public Prosecutor.
Theater of the absurd – the police arrested the car of the president’s godson
So, the arrogant, rude and violent driver could easily get into another expensive car and continue to roam the streets of Belgrade without hindrance…
Will he or won’t he accept the proposal – that is the question
The biggest question now is whether Vucic will sign the Franco-German Proposal for resolving relations between Serbia and Kosovo.
Creative industries – Strpci
Brandy, wine, whey, and poetry festivals. Calf, furniture, book, and tractor fairs. The most valued word is creativity. Everything is creative now: capital, Karl Marx, cattle, managers, and advertisers.
A comment on the proposed Basic agreement between Serbia and Kosovo
My goal is to explain the Agreement from the standpoint of international law. My intention is not to persuade anyone that it should be accepted, or not.
Dodik’s anti-Yugoslav manifesto
Why is it unnecessary to listen to Milorad Dodik’s speeches on January 9th, which celebrates the establishment of Republika Srpska? Because he talks about the same things every year.
Logs
It seems that for thirty years the best thing that Serbs can think to do is erect barricades. Can we expect the barricades in Kosovo not to end up like the barricades around Knin? It’s hard to say…
Vulin in his own world
BIA got a new director. Gasic handed over all papers, keys and staff to Vulin. This seems to have woken up the opposition from their stupor, but their astonishment was very confusing.
Russia Today, Europe never
This should be the slogan of RT Balkan, the portal in Serbian launched by Russia Today TV, at the same time announcing a plan to begin broadcasting its program in Serbian by 2024.
30 years since the discovery of Ovcara
DwP – At a press conference in Zagreb on October 22, 1992, UNCHR under the leadership of Tadeusz Mazowiecki announced that a mass grave had been discovered in the area of Ovcara.
Orlic’s reprimands
Rakic stood up and addressed the President of the Parliament Orlic and the ruling majority: “What children, exactly, are you concerned about? In the 1990s, you sent my classmates to war…”
I have a 15-letter word – corporatization
A great mystery has been solved. “External factors” are not to blame for the situation in public companies. We are to blame, “we brought this about ourselves”, concluded Ana Brnabic a few days ago.
In Memoriam Vladimir Gligorov (1945 – 2022)
wiiw – He worked every day… Being a cinephile and loving his family was the closest he came to the everyday life of an average person.
Yet another October 22
DwP – I’m supposed to write about October 22, 1992. On that day the paramilitary group Avengers, led by Milan Lukic, abducted sixteen people. They abducted one man the night before.
Russian lessons
Prilepin said that his intention was to write a book about love, but it turned out to be about war, because “anything a Russian takes up, eventually turns into fire from the Kalashnikov.”
Strictly confidential gobbledygook
The Government made the decision to hire a consultant to solve the “energy challenges” and entrusted the job to the Norwegian company Rystad Energy for 1.55 million dollars.
The birth of the Belgrade CircIe
DwP – A group of Serbian historians began collecting documents about the anti-war movement in Serbia in the 1990s and the Association of Independent Intellectuals Belgrade Circle.
Happy fearmonger
In a panicked frenzy, the ruler warned us about a series of disasters headed our way. His panic scale is calibrated at the scale of cataclysms and apocalypses, unavoidable biblical prophecies…
Dubrovnik – History with a vengeance
DwP – Every October 1, a ritual takes place in Montenegro. They show footage on the Montenegrin aggression against Dubrovnik, hold round table discussions, NGOs give out press releases.
Winds of change in B&H
The two main pieces of news from the elections held in Bosnia and Herzegovina are the victory of Denis Becirovic and changes to the Election law imposed by High representative C. Schmidt.
Radoslav Brdjanin – contribution to crimes
The day before yesterday, the news arrived that this prematurely released Hague convict died in B&H, but it was not possible to hear or read anything about his war efforts for which he was sentenced to 30 years.
Let’s cleanse the soul of Europe
The only one who still hasn’t received a St. Sava medal is Erdogan. The Serbian church has already placed medals on the breast of Putin, Lukashenko, Vucic, Dodik and now Victor Orban.
Walk for Russia
The Belgrade “walk for life” had almost no banners against EuroPride – it was primarily a symbolic message to Brussels that Vladimir Putin is present and easily managing the regime in Belgrade.
Why I left
At the other end of the table I saw hands. He told me that he was sorry about everything that happened and warned me not to talk so much about it in the media, since it affects the investigation.
The Storm post festum, notes from an abandoned land
As sad as it may be, an identical article could be written about Operation “Oluja/Storm” on the occasion of its anniversary every year…
Adila’s bullet-proof şalvar
DwP – An Albanian woman from Belgrade, a Serbian man from Bor, a Serbian couple from Gracanica are sitting together in Durrës. It sounds like a joke, but we are somewhere halfway to reconciliation…
Peace and unrest
Slavoj Zizek shows how much peace can annoy the advocates of the idea that Ukrainians and Russians should keep dying until they prove their hypothesis about the futility of peace.
Road to nowhere
Peace in the Balkans won’t be a given for long. Russia’s increasingly certain victory in Ukraine will give an additional push to everyone in Serbia who believes that a “revision of the defeat” is possible.
First look from the inside
Our party got an office at Nikola Pasic Square 6, number 112. We don’t have internet, but we do have a fax machine, a television that doesn’t work, a desktop computer, and a box of floppy disks.
