Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina

07.October 2026 Tanja Topic

Dodik's return, if he was going anywhere...

Ethno-nationalists won on all sides, voters narrowed national and clientelistic lines, because how else to analyze the state of society in which Mićo Kraljević, a man convicted of kidnapping another member of parliament and with a confirmed indictment for glorifying war criminals, received 7500 votes, while lawyer and activist in the fight for the protection of human rights Jovana Kisin won 1800 votes. Corruption, crime and crimes have become value paradigms of this society

Patriarch Porfirije at the funeral of Ratko Mladić

Serbian Orthodox Church

09.September 2026 Almire Pichon

Where all Patriarch Porphyry is not welcome

From the request to ban entry into the European Union due to his relationship with Ratko Mladić, through the condemnation of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the court proceedings in Slovenia, Patriarch Porfirije found himself at the center of several disputes with neighboring countries.

Region

17.June 2026 Jaroslav Pecnik

Boiling the Bosnian pot

At the declarative level, both domestic and international political actors swear by a complete BiH, but at the same time, the Croats, looking at Zagreb, and the Serbs at Belgrade, are working on its dismantling. Only the Bosniaks, although they are not entirely innocent in these stories, have nowhere and no one to turn to for support

Felton (1)

14.January 2026 Ivan Colovic

Republika Srpska and God

The event that, according to Porfiry, was crucial for the formation of Serbian statehood, took place in the Studenica monastery in 1207, and another of Nemanja's sons, Vukan, took part in it, the only one who would not become a saint. He and Stefan had quarreled, but they reconciled that day in Studenica thanks to Sava, who persuaded these two to stop fighting and embrace and kiss each other. Therefore, the future saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church participated in this, as well as a layman. If he also embedded himself in the "eternal foundations of the Serbian state", as Porphyry says, then in those foundations there are not only holy relics, but also the work of a layman.

Interview: Dragan Markovina, historian

25.December 2025 Nedim Sejdinovic

Yugoslavia was better.

"The former Mostar still exists - it lives on. There is also the former Sarajevo, and the former Belgrade - but as a minority energy. Which will not disappear. That is why it is impossible for the space to be 'cut' to the end and for everything to end the way the nationalists wish. That is why the nationalist spasm is coming. They would so much like that minority, that common cultural and social reflex to be gone - that it does not exist, that it does not survive - but they cannot fight against it. And that is, paradoxically, both our strength and our worst problem: we are a media and publicly influential minority, numerous enough to bother, but not strong enough to turn things around"