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Media Freedom in Bosnia-Herzegovina: They Don’t Keep Us in Fear, but in Sight
Attacks on journalists are a serious problem in Bosnia-Herzegovina and are symptomatic of an ill…
Murder in Tito’s Name: German Journalists Investigate Liquidations by Yugoslav Secret Police
Between 1946 and 1990, the Yugoslav State Security Administration (UDBA) carried out a series of…
Ceaușescu’s Classic Limousine, a Gift from Iran’s Shah, Sold for €37,000 in Bucharest Auction
At a Bucharest hotel known as a “den of spies” during the Cold War, the…
Darkness Falls on the ‘Land of Fire’
The detention of a pioneering female journalist in Azerbaijan has exposed the increasingly repressive nature…
Two Prominent Serbian Academics Targeted in Attacks
Two prominent academics in Serbia, including a university dean and a former rector and ambassador…
A New Direction for Romania?
And then it all went terribly wrong. Romania’s “Social Democrats”, who everyone believed would score…