10 March 2025
In just a few weeks, video clips of “Balkan Boys,” the new single of the Bosnian rock band Dubioza kolektiv, reached over four million views on social network, gaining a status of regional hit in the Balkans. The song ridicules various stereotypes, including the Flat Earth conspiracy theories which are widespread in the region. At […]
7 January 2025
The list of university professors who signed an open letter expressing support for the Serbian students and their demands constantly grows, and has surpassed 2,000 names so far, Nova.rs reported. “Dear citizens of Serbia, us, the teachers, associates and researchers of the Serbian universities, stand firmly besides our students in the common struggle for better […]
26 December 2024
The civic space for progressive organisations and activists in Western Balkans is continuously shrinking. Their work and well-being remains critically important and yet is made more challenging given increased security risks, legal threats and a challenging funding landscape, the PeaceNexus Foundation warned. “In order to inform our response and make adaptations to how we support […]
25 December 2024
Students in North Macedonia have expressed their solidarity with their peers in Serbia, who have been fighting for justice and accountability for several weeks. Amid the intensified protests and blockades of Serbian universities, Macedonian student organizations have stated that the student voice is the backbone of democracy and that any attempt to repress it is […]
5 October 2024
In the last years, channels have appeared on the Telegram application that spread pro-Serbian and pro-Russian narratives in the Western Balkans. There is no affinity for Russia and Kosovo and no pro-Russian groups have been recorded that have the goal to mobilize Kosovo Albanians. Still, Kosovo continues to be one of the key topics that […]
29 August 2024
It’s not very difficult to note that every other post on the website is anti-Western and portrays Western countries as unjust, controversial and full of crime. Conspiracy theories aimed at fostering disruption and uncertainty among citizens are based on a few postulates or main ideas: migration, the World Economic Forum, COVID vaccination and all the […]
22 August 2024
A woman identified as Dilruba Y, was arrested in the province of Izmir, Turkey, after criticizing the government’s choice to block Instagram during a street interview with a local popular YouTube channel, Tuylu Mikrofon (furry microphone).
21 August 2024
On the 1st of August 2024, the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, was involved in a diplomatic incident at Skopje International Airport. This incident sparked a lot of controversy in the media and received particularly strong reactions and hate speech from both Macedonian and Serbian outlets, writes Portalb.mk What happened? According to the statements of […]
1 August 2024
This article is based collaboration between Global Voices and Metamorphosis Foundation. The members of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) issued a condemnation of the attack against the journalist of Croatian fact-checking service Faktograf that took place on July 16 near near Zadar. As reported by Faktograf, award-winning journalist Melita Vrsaljko, a fact-checker who works on their Climate Portal, was physically […]
19 July 2024
As a member of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) and the International Fact-Checking Network, Metamorphosis Foundation joins condemnation of the attack against the journalist of Croatian fact-checking service Faktograf. The newsrooms of the fact-checking service Truthmeter.mk, Meta.mk news agency and the news portal in Albanian language PortAlb.mk join the condemnation. As reported by Faktograf, […]
29 June 2024
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Belgrade announced on June 27 that they received verbal notification from the Ministry of Interior of Republic of Serbia regarding the ban on all events of the festival “Mirëdita, Dobar Dan!” (meaning “good day” in Albanian and Serbian) scheduled to start in the evening of that day. The […]
18 June 2024
This article was written by Emily Wright, a Fulbright Research Fellow affiliated with civil society organization Partners for Democratic Change Serbia, and first published by Tech Policy Press. An edited version is republished by Meta.mk with permission. Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) will have a significant impact on the digital environment, both with the European Union (EU) and beyond. While […]
13 May 2024
International public and some of the domestic political actors issued public reactions after the new president Gordana Siljanovska Davkova failed to utter the constitutional name of the state during her inauguration on the May 12. They consider this act as violation of the Prespa Agreement, which was concluded with United Nations mediation in 2018, ending […]
8 April 2024
The popular Serbian weekly magazine Politikin Zabavnik, which celebrates its 85th anniversary this year, published a comics in Romani language. The comics by Lazo Sredanović and Nikola Lekić features the adventures of Dikan “the youngest Ancient Slaw”, which were extremely popular across the whole Yugoslavia. In its last two issues, Politikin Zabavnik includes an insert […]
7 April 2024
On April 6, Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Bajaga i Instruktori repeated their first concert held in the Youth Cultural Center in Skopje, held at the same location 40 years before, in 1984. Two members of the original 1980s lineup joined the frontman Momčilo Bajagić “Bajaga” on stage in Skopje – guitarist and vocalist […]
25 March 2024
Putin’s regime is using the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) for spreading influence in Orthodox countries. The ROC is exerting enormous pressure on other churches and preventing the recognition of autocephaly status the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC). By means of intelligence actions, Russian priests are recruiting members of the clergy all over the local Balkan churches, […]
28 February 2024
Russian media Sputnik and RT (Russia Today) Balkans operating in Serbia, are used as propaganda tools by Putin’s Russia and represent Russian “soft power” in the region. This propaganda from Moscow, disseminated through the contents published by both Russian media outlets and republished by Serbian media, reaches, and is read everywhere in the Western Balkans, […]
21 February 2024
Leskovac school comics “Nikola Mitrović Kokan,” operating within the Leskovac Cultural Centre, announced that they will organize the event “The Balkans festival of young comics creators” for the twenty-sixth time in 2024. The event will take place from June 28th to 30th in the premises of Leskovac Cultural Center, the National Museum of Leskovac and […]
23 December 2023
Based on the information gathered and the analyses conducted thus far, the CRTA Election Observation Mission expresses a well-founded suspicion that in the elections on December 17, organized voter migrations occurred to an extent that crucially influenced the outcome of the very close elections for the Belgrade City Assembly – this is the main conclusion […]
21 December 2023
CRTA Election Observation Mission in their preliminary assessment about the Election Day in Serbia alarmed about drastic abuses of voters’ rights, laws and institutions that escalated on 17th December. “We bring attention to serious concerns regarding the quality of Parliamentary elections, and their further departure from standards for free and fair elections. Considering the scope […]
