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Drugs, crime, murders: The fall of Montenegro’s crime rings

04.02.22

Ivan Čadjenović Crime rings continue to smuggle and sell cocaine from Latin America to Europe, despite the consequences of the bloody war and the cracking of the encrypted application “Sky”. Has the “Sky” app ended the clan war?   Milan Radulović (51),...

Media and information literacy: The antidote to lies and propaganda

Dorentina Hysa

02.02.22

The blog is published as part of the international symposium “Keeping up the Pace: Media Literacy Education in an Accelerating Age” organized by the Institute of Communication Studies on February 3 – 4, 2022. Register to follow the event on this link. Dorentina...

Corruption in agriculture

Fitim Gashi

31.01.22

Fitim Gashi “He who sows shall reap” – is an expression that means – if you plant the seeds, you will be able to enjoy the harvest later on. But many public officials and officials in Kosovo are harvesting without sowing, by being involved in a...

Tirana: A city scarred by money laundering

Alice Taylor

28.01.22

Alice Taylor The march of the diggers, cranes, and cement mixers continues while Albanians find themselves driven out of the city. Those that remain, witness the destruction of historical monuments, playgrounds, and open areas and are powerless to prevent it.  ...

Monitoring and data – the only approach for proper management of water resources

17.01.22

Prof. Slaven Conevski, Todor Conevski, Prof. Svetislav Krstiq Ph.D. It is not possible to calculate exactly the proper utilization and capacities of the water resources in the country due to the lack of continuous hydrological measurements and monitoring of the...

Covid-19 and human irrationality

03.01.22

Anita Janchevska In consideration of all the lessons learned from this pandemic, the question now is how can we use behavioral economy to create major change in the future on a global scale?   In response to the pandemic, experts around the world have identified...

Trans people are second-order citizens, not powerful spreaders of “transgender ideology”

Elena Gagovska

27.12.21

Elena Gagovska Transgender people in Macedonia are effectively second-class citizens. The most important thing to remember is that those transphobic narratives in the country are completely wrong.   Inaccurate and transphobic narratives about transgender people...

The End of an Autocratic Era? Bulgaria’s New Regular Government

Radosveta Vassileva

22.12.21

Radosveta Vassileva 2021 marked the end of Boyko Borissov’s presence in Bulgaria’s executive as well as his dominance over the country’s parliament. However, did it dismantle Borissov’s autocracy? Far from it!   This year Bulgaria saw three parliamentary...

Murals are dredging up a war-torn past and widening divides in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mladen Obrenovic

06.12.21

Mladen Obrenović Since monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and there is but a mere handful of them dedicated to all victims regardless of nationality and/or religion, mark the territory and represent three viewpoints of the recent past – Bosniak, Croat and Serb...

The missed opportunity of media to shed light on gender-based violence

Elena Gagovska

25.11.21

Elena Gagovska The fact that the case (“Public Room”) remained unresolved almost two years after it was discovered activates the public because the illusion that the authorities are working on the case is shattered. Gender-based violence is one of the several forms...