protests

When the regulators are raised: How does the propaganda machine “extinguish” the crisis in Serbia?

Although discussions of “colour revolutions” in Serbia surfaced in early November, significant attempts to delegitimize protests became apparent on November 22. Ana Brnabić, Parliament Speaker, then characterized roadblocks due to fatalities in Novi Sad as “well-coordinated from abroad”. A couple days later, the narrative intensified. Media outlets began comparing Serbian protests to those against Russian […]

December 8, 2024

Power at Any Cost: Parallels Between Serbia and Georgia

On 28 November 2024, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which called for new elections in Georgia, following up on condemnation of the October parliamentary elections for being “neither free nor fair”. Nine months prior, in February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which deemed that the 2023 parliamentary elections in Serbia were also not […]

December 2, 2024

Systemically Ignoring July Beatings

Milan Grubetic is an engineer living in Kostolac, and he suffered injuries and was arrested on the night between 11 and 12 July. Photo of his bloody face circulated the media, and in the mid-August he has said for Istinomer: “This action was not provoked by the protesters but by the police. So there is […]

November 24, 2020

The media flunked because they joined the political coalition

“When Draza Petrovic presented the award to me, he said – if I had wanted to be brave, I would have become a firefighter, not a journalist.”, answered Slobodan Georgiev, BIRN editor, winner of the award “Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic” for journalistic courage, when asked what journalistic courage is. He recalled that Superman, in fact, was […]

June 17, 2019

Serbs and Albanians have to reconcile

“Vucic is a winner from the meeting in Patriarchate because Patriarch Irinej actually helped him present himself as a protector of national interests, including the church, as well as the representative of the unity and presence of our people”, said Borko Stefanovic, Vice President of the Party of Freedom and Justice (PFJ), in his interview […]

May 26, 2019

Vucic has Parliament in his pocket

“Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, as the largest opposition club in the Assembly, did not participate in the Collegium convened by Maja Gojkovic, because for the last few years we demanded to have regular consultations for the purpose of reducing the tension, making discussions more decent, ensuring the conformity of the Rules of Procedure and have […]

May 26, 2019