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share Print Serbia continues to reverberate with outrage and sympathy for young women who have come forward this month alleging they were raped as students by a veteran director at his private drama school, setting off an "avalanche" of #MeToo accounts that challenge Serbian society to fix a "broken system." The torrent came after a rising star of international cinema publicly accused the storied mentor and founder of the Stvar Srca acting studio, Miroslav "Mika" Aleksic, of repeatedly raping her beginning nine years ago, when she was 17. For decades, the 68-year-old Aleksic has worked and ho...

Whatever the outcome of opposition appeals that are still pending, critics are sure to attack the resulting vote as rigged and will possibly boycott. But to some of the hundreds of thousands of people who fled the former province during and since a battle for independence from the Yugoslav constituent republic of Serbia in the late 1990s and their descendants, it won't matter who's on the ballot if they can't even register to vote. After acting President Vjosa Osmani scheduled next month's snap national elections to replace a government declared illegitimate by the courts, the Central Electio...

share Print Just weeks before next month's snap elections, Kosovo's interior minister and a leading voice in one of its top parties has been accused of taking a sexist, body-shaming swipe at the Balkan state's most powerful woman. Agim Veliu said he didn't know that Vjosa Osmani, Kosova's acting president and parliament speaker, was "so big that she needs a space as big as the presidency [of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and] that [the leadership] should be removed [in order] for her to come [back and join the party]." Veliu was referring to Osmani's demand that the LDK's top leadersh...

Phantom Pollster Has A Way Of Popping Up, Propping Up Bulgaria's Ruling Coalition December 15, 2020 17:07 GMT Share share Maybe not, if that forest lies on the Bulgarian political landscape. It's a conundrum that might be on the minds of millions of Bulgarians ahead of a key electoral test in March for Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's governing bipartite coalition, which has been in power since 2017. Bulgarian National Television (BNT), the public broadcaster, touted some questionable figures in a November 30 broadcast of its main news after asking the question: "If parliamentary elections were...

In The Balkans' Most Divided Country, COVID Vaccine Cuts Both Ways December 13, 2020 11:00 GMT Share share Print From its rotating, three-member presidency based on ethnicity to the parallel executive and legislative councils that alternately coax it forward and impede it, Bosnia-Herzegovina is a deeply divided country. So much so that most of the talk around this month's 25th anniversary of the deal that ended its ethnically-driven war in the 1990s and preserved Bosnian statehood centered on why that stopgap agreement was still so essential to its survival. Now, as the former Yugoslav republ...