Blic is running an article entitled "All indicators pointing at big crisis. Threat of bankruptcy over Serbia." From the title, it's pretty obvious what it's about -- but the article seems extremely one-sided. The article does just that: it assumes that Serbia is in recession, and only talks to one analyst, Vladimir Gligorov, an "expert" at the Vienna Institute for ...

For the past ten years or so, we've been hearing all this hand-wringing about how Serbian Government was not cooperating fully with the Hague Tribunal. The latest example is in a recent John Boonstra post in the UN Dispatch blog. There is a big problem with the article. Boonstra tries to paint Serbia's cooperation with the Hague Tribunal as a failure: ...

A whole bunch of folks are sending this one in, so let's get it covered. B92 is running an article entitled "Djelic: More funds for science: Science Minister Bozidar Djelic says that no less than Eur 44,000 will be set aside for scientific research this year." It's pretty obvious that Eur 44.000 is almost a laughable amount. As a commenter ...

Just a few weeks ago, we were talking about the sale of 70 percent stake of JRB, Serbian leading river shipping company, to the Austria-based company DDSG owned by Serbian businessman Zoran Drakulic. The company ranked first at the tender, offering the price of Euro 24.5 million and investments in the amount of Euro 15.7 million. Last month, the Tender ...

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for EU integration, Bozidar Djelic, gave a speech, at the opening of the first EU information centre at the Svetozar Markovic university library, to a group of people supposedly calling on them to be open to the world, and, most importantly, learn to embrace the potential of the EU integration. So, let's go to the details. So, ...

A few folks have submitted links to a blog post by Wade, a traveler, who has ventured through over 40 countries on five continents. In the post, Wade talks about Belgrade noting: Unexpectedly alright is how I would summarize Belgrade. I was expecting to arrive in a bombed out, war-torn, ghetto of humanity when I stepped off of the bus into ...

Over at arirusila.wordpress.com, Ari Rusila points us to a well worth reading (if long) study (PDF) published by UK-based think tank Open Europe claiming that European propaganda is organised according to a methodical plan, manipulating public opinion on the merits of European integration. Open Europe reveals that large sums of public money (2.4 billion euros a year) on propaganda are ...