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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has rejected criticisms that Serbia is stifling press freedom and imposed a state monopoly over the media. Writing in the EUobserver, Vucic responded to comments by Italian journalist Mateo Trevisan that Serbia’s ruling Progressive Party systematically violates basic media freedom. "As president of Serbia, I have rarely reacted to media attacks on the country I lead, since ... I was very aware that ... other opinion(s) and criticism ... serve to quickly change things in our country, to progress ourselves, and to ensure normal functioning and full respect for democratic norms and laws," said Vucic. On...
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Supporters of arrested protesters facing coup charges gathered to demand their release, days before a decision in their case. The group gathered in front of Belgrade’s Palace of Justice, demanding the release of their fellow far-right activists. The detained group is facing coup charges. Dejan Zlatanovic, Damnjan Knezevic, and other far-right activists were behind the first protest on Wednesday, during which they demanded “Stop Vucic’s Betrayal of Kosovo.” The group accused Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic of betraying the former province of Kosovo, cherished by nationalists as the “cradle” of the Serbian state. Police found a rifle in one of the...
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A boxing team from Montenegro was barred from Moldova due to security reasons, according to high-ranking sources for investigative journalists. The team was barred from Moldova on 14 February amid concerns that foreigners planned to join a pro-Russian protest set to take place on Sunday. The rally has been organised by pro-Russian, anti-European organisations, allegedly also behind fugitive Moldovan oligarchs Ilan Shor and Vladimir Plahotniuc. Both Shor and Plahotniuc face charges in Moldova on corruption, money laundering, and other organised crime related activities. On 13 February, the Moldovan President Maia Sandu warned that citizens of Russia, Belarus, Serbia and Montenegro...
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A shooting incident near a NATO patrol in North Kosovo is currently being investigated, said the NATO-led peacekeeping Kosovo Force (KFOR) on Monday. KFOR said there had been no injuries following gunfire near a NATO patrol on Sunday. Latvian Ministry of Defense forces attached to the KFOR mission were involved in the incident. The incident took place in the Zubin Potok area, near the border with Serbia. NATO forces also confirmed there had been no material damage reported. "As meetings between all the parties are planned, it is important for all involved to avoid any rhetoric or actions that can...
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A Serbian court has fined investigative media outlet KRIK for publishing news linking a criminal group trial with Bratislav Gasic, Serbia’s new Interior Minister and former chief of the Security Information Agency (BIA). Gasic brought a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) lawsuit against the media outlet in May 2021. The verdict, issued by Judge Natasa Petricevic Milisavljevic, has not yet been published. The reasons for the verdict, and the resulting fine, are not yet known, said KRIK. In filing his suit, Gasic demanded half a million dinars from KRIK for injury to his honor and reputation after the media...
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A number of recent cyber attacks used sexism and ethnic hatred to target politicians and vulnerable communities, according to a new report. Groups across Serbia, Hungary and North Macedonia experienced a flare-up in online attacks in the first half of September, with attackers focussing on ethnic minorities and the LGBT community. According to investigators with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), countries throughout the region reported a number of hacker attacks and incidents of online fraud over the past month. The scale of the damage remains critically underreported, and authorities ill-equipped to prevent or prosecute these attacks. On 1 September,...
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A car belonging to a Kosovo Serb police officer was set alight on Tuesday in an attack that the Kosovo government says is linked to the ongoing licence plate dispute with Serbia. According to a Kosovo government minister, unknown assailants set fire to the police officer’s car as revenge for the officer swapping his Serbian-issued licence plates for Kosovo plates. The incident appears to mark the third time that a Kosovo Serb has been targeted for complying with a Kosovo government decree giving Kosovo Serbs until the end of September to swap over to Kosovo-issued licence plates. The Kosovo Interior...
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said the EuroPride festival will not be held in Belgrade as planned in September, citing the “significant crisis in Kosovo.” The announcement came as a surprise to organizers of the pan-European pride celebration. The festival was originally scheduled to take place September 12-18 in the Serbian capital. EuroPride is an independently organized event hosted in a different city each year, with the host city chosen either for its political significance or the size of the city’s LGBT community. “We were shocked by this announcement,” said Marko Mihailovic, an organizer of the Belgrade Pride parade involved in...
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Croatian officials on Friday celebrated the 27th anniversary of the country’s Operation Storm military victory over rebel Serbs. Political leaders, wartime military generals and war veterans all gathered in the town of Knin to mark the event, which is credited with ending the country’s war of independence in 1995. Croatian President Zoran Milanovic said large numbers of Serbs that fled Croatia as a result of Operation Storm was “a human tragedy, but that human tragedy was preceded by human greed and human stupidity of the rulers in Belgrade.” Over the course of Operation Storm, Croatian forces managed to reclaim nearly...
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic slammed the Kosovo’s government's latest decision regarding licence plates for Serbs living in northern Kosovo, describing the move as a bid to “expel Serbs, especially from the north of Kosovo and Metohija.” Vucic said Kosovo planned to “make a new Storm,” referencing a 1995 Croatian army operation, codenamed Storm, that saw most Serbs flee Croatia. “Their Interior Ministry will campaign to persuade Serbs [in Kosovo] to register with so-called RKS [Republic of Kosovo] licence plates,” Vucic said. “If [Serbs] are not convinced, they will take away not only their license plates but also their vehicle [in...
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