Analyses

Istinomer fact-checked COVID-19 and the Serbian national election at the same time. Here’s how.

This case study is part of Resilience Reports, a series from the European Journalism Centre about how news organizations across Europe are adjusting their daily operations and business strategies as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. In a nutshell: Increasing the number of fact-checks and building a new browser-based tool helped Istinomer combat politicians and other Serbian media intent […]

July 8, 2020

Freedom of Election Overshadowed by the Turnout

Two things are definite as regards the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Serbia held on 21 June 2020. In the last two decades, those elections had the minimum uncertainty as regards the results, however, those were the elections with the most disputed legitimacy. This was the reason the public had been engaged for quite […]

June 28, 2020

Persons with disabilities and the challenges they face in the voting process

What are the challenges that persons with disabilities face when they go out to vote? “This video is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID […]

June 19, 2020

Coronavirus Has Changed the Course of Foreign Policy

Istinomer talked about Serbia’s relationship with these four global powers in the last years with Milan Krstic, a founder of the Centre for Social Dialogue and Regional Initiatives and a teaching assistant at the International Studies Department of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Igor Novakovic, the director of research in the International and […]

April 9, 2020

Petrovic Skero: No One Can Restrict Our Right to Human Dignity

Is the National Assembly prevented to be convoked by the Decision on ban of gathering indoors for the limited number of people? How can one subordinate the Constitution to a decision? It is also a matter of appropriateness, especially since the decision on the state of emergency is adopted in such a way, when […]

March 18, 2020

Third of RTS political programme for Aleksandar Vucic

Political pressure on RTS with its programme dominated by ruling parties, is not an isolated example, in fact, it is very similar to the issues the Croatian public broadcasting company is facing, as our interviewees claim. Istinomer compared RTS and HRT, and used the BBC, the oldest public broadcasting service in the world, as an […]

February 21, 2020

Crnjanski: I don’t understand how you can stay on the side-lines when you know you’re being lied to

The Truth-o-Meter is marking its tenth anniversary. Established as the first portal in Serbia and the region to evaluate truthfulness and consistency in politicians’ statements, insisting on accountability for public speech, the Truth-o-Meter is today a relevant source of information not only for readers but also for other media. Even in these times when the […]

February 4, 2020

We’ve been playing for the same team for ten years. The lie still has the lead.

December 30, 2019

Snowden from “Krušik”

This is how Aleksandar Obradović, an employee of the “Krušik” munitions plant described in an interview given to Truth-o-Meter from his house arrest some of the motives that had incited him to give to the public and to the investigative media in Serbia and Bulgaria information stating that Serbian Minister of Interior Nebojša Stefanović’s father […]

December 27, 2019

Serbian Minister’s Affair: Doctorate that took too long

An economist, Siniša Mali (47) began his political career after the October 5th democratic changes in Serbia. In 2001 he became Assistant Minister for Privatisation. Nonetheless, he was soon transferred to the Privatisation Agency. In the following years, he built his biography as a financial expert and consultant. He was elected Mayor of Belgrade in […]

December 27, 2019