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Detektor journalists Nino Bilajac, Enes Hodzic, and Irvin Pekmez are co-authors of a broadcast episode with CU SENS, a Moldovan media organisation, about Russian camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Together with two other episodes from CU SENS, they’ve been nominated by the Friends for Friends Foundation – a Romanian non-profit organisation focused on media work, social impact, education, and creativity – for an award in the categories of investigative and TV journalism.
The journalists’ video investigation is being considered as one of the best pieces of media content published in the Republic of Moldova during 2025.
Pekmez explained that cooperation with the Moldovan media organisation CU SENS and the journalist Malvina Cojocari resulted in the publication of two joint investigations accompanied by TV shows in summer 2025. One was published on Detektor.ba, the other was published simultaneously on the CU SENS website.
“We feel particular satisfaction that the Moldovan version of the investigation, supported by the information obtained by Detektor journalists during several months of work on the topic primarily carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, has been recognised as an important journalistic work that contributes to an objective understanding of the problem of the harmful influence of the Kremlin on the two countries,” Pekmez said.
The nominated investigation reveals that between July and September 2024, at least eight Moldovan citizens were trained in Russian camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina on how to use weapons and drones with explosive devices. The plan was to incite unrest in Moldova as part of mass riots organised by unknown structures under Kremlin control.
Among the recruiters were individuals involved in vandalising buildings in Paris in 2023. Some of the instructors and coordinators are connected with the Russian Wagner paramilitary group.
The winners will be announced in Bucharest at the Superscrieri awards ceremony in May, along with other honorary and special awards.
As announced by the Friends for Friends Foundation, out of more than 300 applications, 53 works published during 2025 have been selected by a jury composed of 22 media experts across nine competition categories: journalism debut, local media, TV and video journalism, investigative journalism, feature writing, thematic journalism, innovation, interview, and civic influencers.
