More than half a million people follow pro-Russian Telegram channels covering the Balkans in Serbian and Russian languages. Followers are being urged to donate military equipment to Russia and join military units composed of citizens of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Ukrainian frontline, Detektor’s analysis shows.
In this edition of TV Justice, we’re bringing you a story about the so-called Law on Foreign Agents. In Russia, this is a law that sanctions and shuts down media outlets, and sends activists, as well as members of the public who dare to oppose the authorities, to prison.
During a match last weekend, fans of a football club from Bijeljina displayed a banner of a notorious Russian military unit fighting in Ukraine. The Russian military unit, whose members look up to Arkan’s Tigers, thanked the fans on social media for their support. The fans in Bijeljina also called for the secession of Texas from the United States.
We can reveal how a former chief of the Slovak counterintelligence service has found refuge in Bosnia and Herzegovina after serving two-thirds of his prison term. He is the third Slovak security official to have found our country a safe haven from the judicial authorities in their own EU state.
The president of the Military Trade Union of Serbia, Novica Antic, is under investigation in Serbia for embezzlement. He maintains close ties with people connected to the regime of Vladimir Putin, while also maintaining contacts in European security circles and veterans in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Peter Gasparovic, who was sentenced in Slovakia for corruption, fled to Mostar while on parole and has sought asylum there, becoming the third senior Slovak security official to have taken refuge in Bosnia in the last few years.
Nick Teunissen was so intrigued by a photograph of a young Bosnian who went missing during the Srebrenica genocide, he decided to write a book that would illuminate some of the real lives behind the headlines and casualty figures.
Serb nationalist and pro-Moscow groups from Bosnia, Serbia and Russia celebrated the controversial Day of Republika Srpska this week with fireworks, militaristic warnings and slogans glorifying war criminals.
Bosnia’s state court upheld a verdict acquitting the wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fourth Corps, Ramiz Drekovic, of ordering artillery attacks on civilian targets in the town of Kalinovik in 1995.