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Volodymyr Zelensky was Tuesday October 10 in Bucharest. A first visit by the Ukrainian president since the start of the war which comes shortly after Poland suspended its military aid and as Russian bombings approach the border. Romania is also the exit door for Ukrainian cereals, via the Danube.
Attack in Kosovo: Milan Radoičić, oligarch and arms trafficker?
The noose is tightening around Milan Radoičić, this close friend of the Serbian regime suspected of having been at the head of the deadly attack of September 24 in northern Kosovo. Accused of terrorism by the Pristina authorities, the man has the lifestyle of an oligarch in Serbia. A luxury hotel, public works companies, a sumptuous villa in Belgrade: Milan Radoičić owns a small empire there whose value is in tens of millions of euros… Or rather possessed, since he suddenly came from everything give in to his associates after his indictment.
Serbian justice suspects him of arms trafficking, even though he has been released on bail. According to the investigative media Balkan Insight, the analysis of the markings of the weapons seized by the Kosovo authorities in the Banjska monastery shows that this arsenal is passed into the hands of the Serbian army in the last five years.
Terrorist threat?
Around 80 Bosnians returned from Iraq and Syria after fighting in the ranks of jihadist organizations. Only the men were sentenced to prison and almost all are now free. No program has been put in place to support their reintegration. A security risk for Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the October 1 suicide attack in Ankara. An action which triggered very violent reprisals from the Erdoğan regime, even in northern Iraq and Syria. At the risk of seeing Turkey get angry with its NATO partners? Interview.
Islam and social liberation: the “anti-capitalist Muslims” of Türkiye reread the Koran in the light of Karl Marx and demand equality, solidarity and pluralism. They radically oppose the “neo-liberal Islamism” and authoritarianism of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Meeting with the theorist of the movement, Recep İhsan Eliaçık.
Minorities discriminated against
It’s a vicious circle: the less access Roma, Egyptians and Ashkalis have to employment, the more they are marginalized. But due to the massive exodus of the population from Kosovo, companies with a labor shortage are starting to hire them… for poverty wages. Testimonials.
On paper, Croatia has an excellent legislative arsenal to combat discrimination. Except that the law is not applied and the Roma and Serbs, the two main national minorities, are always the most segregatedas confirmed by a UN report.
In Montenegro, the new census is due to begin on November 1, except that the closer the deadline approaches, the more requests for postponement flood in. The sign that in the small country of 620,000 inhabitants, a census is still not a simple accounting operation, but rather the mother of all political battles.
History still has difficulty passing in Serbia
In the Balkans, the number of victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia continues to be debated. And for the Serbian Orthodox Church, there is no question of minimizing it, even if it means basing it on the highly contested figures from the Yugoslav Titoist authorities. A bishop, a specialist in the Second World War, has just been banned from speaking on this highly sensitive subject. Isn’t historical debate possible? ?
It’s a very beautiful film which was released on French screens on October 11. Lost Countryby Serbian director Vladimir Perišić, is an intimate dive into Belgrade in the 1990s. We follow the fate of Stefan, a high school student caught between his desire for justice and freedom and the love for his mother, a member of the regime of Slobodan Milošević. Encounter.
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