Balkans

Rights watchdog’s 50th anniversary report painted a bleak picture of the state of freedom in several countries in the region, although Kosovo bucked the trend. The 2023 annual “Freedom in the World” report by rights organisation Freedom House says several countries in Southeast and Central Europe, except for Kosovo, saw …

Propaganda techniques aimed at shaping the perception of citizens also include the concealment of facts that do not support that propaganda. In this text Demostatus reflects on some of such historical truths. The majority of Serbian citizens perceive Russia as a friendly country that stood by the Serbian people in …

The Balkans presents a crucial junction for Tehran as an access point to Western Europe and an avenue for advancing its regional political and economic interests. The Balkan region is strategically important for western countries as a geographic bloc through which they can increase their influence in former Soviet Eastern …

The guests of “Impression of the Week”, legal experts, agreed tonight that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s oral acceptance of the European agreement on Kosovo recently in Brussels was illegal, that the president thereby exceeded his constitutional powers and that he should therefore be dismissed, given that the agreement yet legally …

The European proposal on Kosovo is good and it is good that Aleksandar Vučić wants to accept it, because it is the path to the European Union (EU), lawyer Sead Spahović said in an interview with FoNet, indicating that Serbia cannot return Kosovo. Kosovo is a country. What kind of …

All elections in Montenegro are historic because it is part of their prevailing national personality, but this presidential election on Sunday, March 19, could really determine the fate and future of Montenegrin statehood, as well as Montenegrin cultural-ethnic identity. According to Jutarnji list , since the parliamentary elections in 2020, …

Negotiations on the Kosovo issue have been going on for years, and since he came to power, they have been led by President Aleksandar Vučić. On the other hand, Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti is negotiating on behalf of Kosovo. This raises the question of why the dialogue between Belgrade and …

For more than a year, Serbia has been calculating the (non)introduction of sanctions against Russia, which has recently been shown to be a maneuver that the current government is seriously reconsidering, writes Oslobođenje . It also seems that public opinion is slowly giving way to the “Russophile euphoria”, and that …

Media in Kosovo often publish the personal data of individuals in a race for clicks that ignores standards on ethics.When Indeksonline, an online media outlet in Kosovo, reported in January that a participant in a local reality TV show was HIV positive, dozens of other media ran with the story. …

Albanians face the dual challenge of safeguarding themselves from foreign cyber-attacks – while worrying about the potential misuse of their personal data by their own government and political parties.As local elections approach in Albania, the debate surrounding the use of IT tools by political parties for collecting and utilizing citizens’ …