Broadcasting to the Balkans

the economist
News in the ex-Yugoslavia
Al Jazeera’s latest venture

Nov 12th 2011

SARAJEVO
from the print edition
IN THE centre of Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, a gleaming piece of Arabic script adorns the top of a new building. This is the logo of Al Jazeera, the Qatari network that has changed the face of television news since it was founded 15 years ago. Inside the building, carpenters and technicians are putting the finishing touches to the offices. But this is not just another foreign bureau....more...
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Al-Jazeera launches Balkans broadcast

guardian
Qatar-based network hopes venture will provide objective news in a region where media is heavily influenced by politics

Associated Press in Sarajevo

guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 November 2011 17.40 GMT

The pan-Arab news network al-Jazeera is launching its Balkans operation that is expected to reconnect people divided by the wars in the former Yugoslavia and offer them new perspectives of each other....more...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/11/al-jazeera-launches-balkans-broadcast

How Bosnia's pioneering footballers are succeeding where the politicians failed

guardian.co.uk
Inspired by the talismanic Edin Džeko, the national side is the country's first truly multi-ethnic organisation

Ed Vulliamy
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 5 November 2011 21.10 GMT
A cold autumn mist seasoned with woodsmoke hangs over the stadium on what was no man's land during Sarajevo's four-year siege – the first Serbian machine-gun post was just behind the goal where the "maniac crew" of Željeznicar Sarajevo sing and the electronic scoreboard now stands. Tonight, it shows a result of 2-0 in favour of Željeznicar against Celik Zenica in the Bosnian cup....more....
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/05/bosnia-footballers-succeeding-politicians-failed

Serbian Military Call-Up Notices Spark Sharp Backlash

radio free europe
September 21, 2011

By Ljudmila Cvetkovic
BELGRADE -- Serbs are expressing alarm at reports that the Defense Ministry is distributing notices telling people to join the military reserves and report for basic training.
The reports come as tensions with neighboring Kosovo -- formerly a Serbian province, and whose independence Belgrade does not recognize -- have been running high amid a sometimes violent dispute over border crossings.
The Belgrade Helsinki Committee for Human Rights announced this week that an undetermined number of men had received the notices....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia_military_callup_notices_spark_sharp_backlash/24335635.html

Leading businessmen in Serbia to found movement soon

blic online
ACTION FOR RENEWAL

Nataša Latković

23. 09. 2011. - 02:02h
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A group of successful Serbian businessmen shall found a movement soon. As ‘Blic’ learns among the founders there shall be Dragoljub Vukadinovic (‘Metalac’ President), Branislav Grujic (‘PSP Farman’), Nikola Pavlicic (‘Tarket-Sintelon’ Honorary President), Mirko Todorovic (‘Todor’ owner), Dragoljub Lekic (‘Vitro Group’ General Director) and also the Union of Entrepreneurs of Serbia and Backa Palanka Business Club....more...
read more: blic online
http://english.blic.rs/News/8031/Leading-businessmen-in-Serbia-to-found-movement-soon

Media in Macedonia: not for the public?

se times
22/09/2011

Journalists in Macedonia are facing tough times ahead due to the shuttering of A1TV last year, and the implications that has had.
By Goran Trajkov for Southeast European Times in Skopje -- 22/09/11
The Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM) is a non-profit organisation that promotes excellence in media and public communication. Its main purpose is to provide training for journalists.

Since its establishment in 2001, MIM has organised over 100 training sessions, workshops, seminars and conferences -- hosting more than 1,000 domestic and foreign media professionals, and has sent many Macedonian journalists to similar training sessions and conferences outside the country....more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/09/22/feature-02

Basketball players return to Macedonia as heroes

se times
21/09/2011

The Macedonian national basketball team became the new sensation at the European championship in Lithuania.
By Marina Stojanovska for Southeast European Times in Skopje -- 21/09/11
Over 50,000 exhilarated fans gathered in Skopje's Macedonia Square on Monday (September 19th) to welcome the national basketball team back from the EuroBasket championship in Lithuania.

Five thousand fans waited for the players to arrive at the Alexander the Great Airport from where they were then transported to the square aboard a roofless double-decker bus....more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/09/21/feature-02

Montenegro’s Biggest Cinema Snapped Up By Austrians

balkan insight
21 SEP 2011 / 14:28

Austrian company "Cineplexx International" announced this week that it had bought the biggest cinema in Montenegro "Ster Cinema", according to media reports.

Source: Balkans.com and CDM

According to the Montenegrin media, the Austrian company bought the cinema, which is located in the Montenegro’s capital city Podgorica, from the Greek "Audiovisual groups".....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-s-biggest-cinema-snapped-up-by-austrians

EULEX Police Arrest Two Kosovo Serbs

balkan insight
21 SEP 2011 / 11:42

A teenager and a 20-year-old Kosovo Serb have been arrested on suspicion of shooting at the house of a Kosovo Police officer in northern Kosovo.

Fatmir Aliu Pristina

The drive-by shooting, in which no one was injured, took place yesterday in the village of Leshak in the Leposavic municipality.

Besim Hoti, a spokesman for the Kosovo Police, said that the two young people had been charged with causing general danger and illegal possession of fire arms....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/eulex-police-arrest-two-kosovo-serbs

Orthodox Christian ghettoization and anti-Serb clampdown in Kosovo

serbianna
Aug 31, 2011

Lee Jay Walker, Modern Tokyo Times

If you reside in a parallel universe then welcome to Kosovo, the land of Albanianization and Islamization and all in the name of democracy. A flick back into history tells us that the Serbs were 98% of the population of Kosovo 600 years ago but today the Orthodox Christian Serbs are between 6% and 8% depending on various figures....more...
read more: serbianna
http://serbianna.com/analysis/archives/962

Government knew everything about purchase of vaccines

blic online
SVETLANA VUKAJLOVIC’S DEFENSE

Vuk Z. Cvijić Tamara Marković-Subota

20. 09. 2011. - 23:50h
Foto: Beta
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In investigation of abuse of office in purchase of vaccines against Mexican flu in 2009 no evidence against then health minister Tomica Milosavljevic has been found until so far except that ‘he had been inadequately informing Serbian Government about disputable purchase of the vaccines’....more...
read more: blic online
http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/8026/Government-knew-everything-about-purchase-of-vaccines

Serbian Rightists Petition Against Gay Parade

balkan insight
19 SEP 2011 / 08:39

Hardline nationalists are busy agitating against this year's planned Gay Pride march - but with tensions in Kosovo also claiming their attention, it may be a case of too little, too late.

Bojana Barlovac Belgrade

In a bid to halt a planned Gay parade in Belgrade on October 2, far-right groups in Serbia have launched petitions urging the authorities to cancel it....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serb-far-rights-petition-against-belgrade-pride-parade

Attacks on Albanian Courts 'Putting Judges at Risk'

balkan insight
19 SEP 2011 / 08:37

The murder last week of a district court judge prompts claims that repeated political attacks on the courts are making judges more vulnerable to criminal acts
Besar Likmeta Tirana

While politicians have united to condemn last week's killing, routine vilification of the justice system is being blamed for creating a climate of insecurity in the judiciary. ...more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/political-attacks-on-courts-set-albania-judges-at-risk

Preparing terrain for the Littoral Eparchy's autonomy

blic online
PLATFORM FOR AGREEMENT WITH MONTENEGRO
Željka Jevtić

14. 09. 2011. - 00:02h
Foto: Foto Vijesti
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In Montenegro a terrain is being prepared for autonomy of the Montenegrin and Coastal Littoral Eparchy. It is to be independent in view of organization from the Serbian Orthodox Church, ‘Blic’ learns. Russian businessmen are lobbying for such settlement of this problem. Apart from business dealing in Montenegro they have excellent relations with the authorities in Podgorica but also with some circles in the Russian Church. Montenegrin authorities find their proposal as ‘a good transient solution’ until setting up of autonomous Montenegrin Church....more....
read more: blic online
http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/8004/Preparing-terrain-for-the-Littoral-Eparchys-autonomy

Slovenians arrested and then released tripled murderer

blic online
CRUEL MURDERER FOUND AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS

Tamara Marković-Subota

14. 09. 2011. - 00:02h
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Organizer of one of the most horrible crimes in Serbia, a triple murder in Belgrade in 1993, Aleksandar Zlender (35) was arrested in Slovenia last Friday and then released. He is Slovenian citizen and that protects him from extradition to Serbia....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/News/8003/Slovenians-arrested-and-then-released-tripled-murderer

Kosovo struggles to define Islam as devout groups become more vocal

deutsche welle
BALKANS

08.09.2011
Kosovo's devout Muslims are demanding more mosques to accommodate the faithful. Although Islam is the country's dominant faith, critics are wary of fundamentalist groups.

Kosovo's National Assembly voted down a proposal by a Muslim political party last week aimed at introducing a religious curriculum to the nation's schools....more...
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15369956,00.html

Civil Society’s Continuing Role in Serbia and the Western Balkans: Interview with Sonja Licht

balkan analysis
September 10, 2011

Editor’s note: Since the end of Communism, the development of ‘civil society’ has been deemed to be of utmost importance for strengthening democratic institutions in the Western Balkans. In the following new interview, Balkanalysis.com contributor Maria Neag gets the insight of Sonja Licht, a distinguished activist in many non-governmental organizations, and a woman considered to be one of the architects of the modern civil society movement in Serbia....more...
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http://www.balkanalysis.com/serbia/2011/09/10/civil-society%E2%80%99s-continuing-role-in-serbia-and-the-western-balkans-interview-with-sonja-licht/

Serbian Town Seeks To Erect Milosevic Monument

radio free europe
September 04, 2011

BELGRADE -- A small town in southern Serbia wants to erect a monument to former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died while being tried for war crimes in The Hague in 2006, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/serbian_town_seeks_to_erect_milosevic_monument/24317697.html

Kosovo Albanian Confesses To Killing U.S. Airmen

radio free europe
August 31, 2011

A Kosovo Albanian man has confessed to shooting dead two U.S. airmen and wounding two others at Frankfurt airport in March....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovo_albanian_on_trial_in_germany_for_shooting_us_airmen/24313465.html

Accused gunman admits to shooting at Frankfurt Airport

guardian

TERRORISM

31.08.2011
A Kosovan man on trial for shooting dead two US airmen at Frankfurt Airport has apologized for his actions. The 21-year-old confessed to the shooting and said he was influenced by radical Islamist propaganda.

A 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian man confessed in court on Wednesday for killing two US airmen at Frankfurt Airport in March....more...

read more: guardian
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15353907,00.html