
Troll of the Month: Petar Bogojeski, leader of the Macedonian Concept party
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkan region. The appointment of Petar Bogojeski, leader of the Macedonian Concept …

Escaping to the future
“My main motivation for going to study abroad was the desire for change, in the sense that I wanted to experience living somewhere abroad in my twenties,” says one of the Montenegrin students currently studying in Slovenia. The emigration of young people is not just a problem for a society in Montenegro, but also elsewhere …

Aggressors and victims at the same time
Boys are caught between expectations, isolation and violence. Every morning, before he wakes up, I open the door to his room with great care, so as not to disturb his sleep. There is something magical about his face while he’s sleeping — maybe it reminds me of when he was little. I listen carefully to …

Where Journalism Ends and Lynching Begins
Media exploitation of the death of Turkish model Güler Erdoğan “Turkish Model Güler Erdoğan Killed in Traffic Accident – Family Denies Incident Speculations” This is approximately what the headlines about Güler Erdoğan’s death in early April would have looked like if the media had stuck to professional reporting. Instead, we got unprofessional, sensationalist, and misinformative …