Named after the endangered bird populating the peninsula, these protests contest the investment of more than one billion euros made by Donald Trump’s son-in-law to develop a luxury tourist destination, including up to 10 000 hotel rooms and villas. Key issues at stake for Albanian citizens started with the destruction of a protected wildlife zone, […]
The decision to oust the politician happened two days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the closing of Bilgi University, one of the best private universities of Turkey, and less than a month after May Day protests when more than 500 protesters got arrested. Coupled with concerns raised by international human rights organizations over the […]
For months, government officials, led by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, have claimed that student blockades and protests following the collapse of a canopy in Novi Sad were in fact a “colour revolution attempt”. They saw the organizers and financiers in the West, just as Moscow does. That Vučić’s regime is on the same wavelength as […]
Unrest at home The protests that began in November 2024, after the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad, were not extinguished by the repression that was visible at every step. Over the summer, a new phase of suppressing civic resistance began – both propaganda and physical violence escalated, we noted hundreds of […]
After thousands of people witnessed an unprecedented phenomenon, a sound, and the medical effects they felt on Saturday at 19:11, and after the public was flooded with dozens of recordings clearly showing the spontaneous panic reaction of the peaceful and still crowd, claims on the potential use of “sonic weapons” against protesters emerged. Sonic weapons […]
Each step of the spin made by the Government, with the help of the propaganda machine, during the two months of student blockades was aimed at discrediting students, questioning their motives for the blockades, stifling all critical voices, and demonizing political opponents. In this mission, high-ranking state officials and media used various manipulation mechanisms. They […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
