Tag: Serbia

A local strongman notorious for harassment of female employees in a remote Serbian municipality received a three-month prison sentence in a trial billed as the first high-profile #MeToo case in the country, Global Voices reported. The trial of the 58-year-old former mayor of the town of Brus, Milutin Jeličić, nicknamed Jutka, ended on July 10, 2020, N1 TV reported. The lawyer...

A civic initiative, #hiljadekamera , composed of concerned citizens, experts and digital rights organisations, has been vocal about the deterioration of privacy in Serbia resulting form massive introduction of video surveillance system with advanced face recognition in the capital Belgrade. Government of Serbia in cooperation with the Chinese company Huawei has been actively working on the implementation of the Safe...

During yesterday's session, the Government of North Macedonia adopted the Commission for Infectious Diseases' recommendation to introduce PCR tests for citizens of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Hercegovina as a prerequisite for entering the country. The decision will become effective today and will last until a new decision has been adopted by the Government. The mandatory RT PCR SARS-CoV-2...

The Health Minister Venko Filipche informed on his Facebook profile that the Commission for Infectious Diseases held a meeting this morning and it decided to submit a proposal to the Government that, starting from tomorrow, all citizens arriving in North Macedonia from Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to be obliged to submit PCR tests not older than...

No country in the world knows the exact total number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. All that is known is what can be learned from the official records kept by health authorities based on the results of the tests performed. All infections that are laboratory confirmed are considered confirmed cases. This means that the...

The Commission for Infectious Diseases had no discussion today about closing the borders of North Macedonia with Kosovo and Serbia and it hasn't issued a recommendation to the Government, said the Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski during the visit to Chucher - Sandevo. -This isn't a political issue, and therefore the Government cannot make a decision such as this alone....

After a COVID-19 imposed hiatus, Serbia announced that it will hold its postponed parliamentary elections on June 21. Some of the biggest opposition parties will boycott the elections, blaming the government it had not provided fair game conditions. Ruling parties, on the other hand, started the campaign in earnest, continuing their tradition of controversial campaign ads. Prior to this...

The  president of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Ivica Dačić distanced himself from election video clip published on Twitter by Branko Ružić, the vice president of the SPS executive board. Both politicians serve as ministers in the coalition government of Republic of Serbia. Dačić occupies the position of  First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, while Ružić...

  U okviru svog programa za borbu protiv dezinformacija i lažnih vesti, koje na Balkanu vrlo lako prelaze granice i brzo se pojavljuju u medijima druge zemlje, a ponekad i na drugom jeziku, Meta.mk redovno prenosi aktuelne novosti srodnih servisa za proveru činjenica i borbu protiv dezinformacija u regionu, odnosno od Hrvatske na severu do Grčke na jugu. Srpski servis za...

U okviru svog programa za borbu protiv dezinformacija i lažnih vesti, koje na Balkanu vrlo lako prelaze granice i brzo se pojavljuju u medijima druge zemlje, a ponekad i na drugom jeziku, Meta.mk redovno prenosi aktuelne novosti srodnih servisa za proveru činjenica i borbu protiv dezinformacija u regionu, odnosno od Hrvatske na severu do Grčke na jugu. Lažne informacije srpskog...

Two months since the first case of COVID-19 was registered in Croatia, as the first Balkan nation to have officially confirmed the presence of the virus, there almost 20,000 inhabitants of 10 Balkan nations that have been infected with the virus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB8HhRy16kM What's most striking about the official statistics published by the World Health Organization, the Johns Hopkins University and Worldometer,...

Global Voices published an English version of a story of Istinomer (Truth-O-Meter), a fact-checking initiative of the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA), , which meta.mk republishes as part of a content-sharing agreement. The developments involving the arrest and release of journalist Ana Lalić for “spreading panic and inciting unrest” after she reported on the lack of protection equipment at a hospital in...

U manje od mesec dana, Srbija je od zemlje u kojoj su se zbijale i šale na račun korona virusa, stigla do 249 obolelih i proglašenja vanrednog stanja. Zvaničnici su se u više navrata oglašavali, iz dana u dan iznoseći tvrdnje o korona virusu i donoseći nove, sve drastičnije mere u borbi protiv istog. Kako je došlo do ovih...

The аnti-migration wave is getting louder in Serbia. Although, according to the latest report of the European Commission, Serbia received a positive evaluation when it comes to the regulation of the system of acceptance and management of the migrations, migrants are increasingly spoken about in a negative context – that they steal, rape and commit other crimes in Serbia....

An opinion poll conducted by the Institute for European Affairs in September 2019 shows that 23 percent of Serbian citizens believe Russia is Serbia's largest aid donor. In reality, Russia hasn't made the top 10 of Serbia's largest donors since 2000, according to the data by the Ministry of European Integration. The EU tops the list with 2.96 billion euros in aid, followed...

Several Serbian media outlets have recently promoted a conspiracy theory – the counterintelligence services of the Balkan countries, in a car dealership in Skopje, are preparing to assassinate Serbian oppositionists. Afterwards, the “West” would blame these crimes on Vučić’s government. The Serbian weekly newspaper ”Pečat“ in the issue released on 19 July 2019, published a text entitled: “Noose for Serbia” (original:...

Nenad Shebek is an international consultant for media and civil society. Previously he was director of the Belgrade office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and before that, spokesperson of Regional Cooperation Council. He served as Executive director of the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe 2002-2014. Prior to that, he had worked as journalist for 26 years,...

Residents of the country, as well as residents of Serbia and BiH, do not feel like they belong to neither the East or the West, but largely prefer western alliances, a new survey by the International Republican Institute (IRI) showed. However, people are happier for further greater engagement with the West, which connects the population in the Western Balkans to...

Since yesterday, various agricultural crops from Macedonia and Serbia will again be able to be exported to Russia, announced the Russian Ministry of Agriculture. The decision comes after the relevant agency visited the country and Serbia, after which the decision to resume exports was made, stated Russian news agency "RIA Novosti". In August last year, a temporary restriction was imposed by...

Serbian fact-checking project "Raskrivanje" has carried out a thorough check into the nebulous claims made by the Serbian daily newspaper "Alo", which accused Fjolla Ismaili, a Macedonian jury member in the selection of the Eurovision song, of somehow to blame because the Macedonia jury did not award any points to Serbian representative Nevena Bozovic. "This jury left Serbia without any...