Censorship

National Theatre

19.July 2026 Sonja Ciric

Censorship in the National Theater: No news about Vučić Perović's award in Pula

On the website of the National Theater there is news about news and individuals who are at the will of the SNS management of this theater. It has not been announced about the Golden Arena of their actor Vučić Perović in Pula

Comment

20.February 2026. Andrei Ivanji

Vučić wants N1 and Nova to shoot blanks

Brent Sadler, whom N1 and Nova TV expect as the chief censor, is finally arriving in Belgrade. Are the days of professional journalism on televisions that tear Vučić's nerves numbered?

More and more websites and messaging apps are becoming unavailable in Russia.

Internet censorship

15.February 2026. Alexey Strelnikov / DW

How Russia blocked YouTube and Vocap

The blocking of global platforms in Russia has gained a new dimension because, according to experts and users, the YouTube and Vocap domains have been removed from the DNS server of the Russian regulatory body Roskomnadzor, which has led to serious difficulties in accessing that video platform from Russia.

Bitef

16.December 2025 Sonja Ciric

What did the "no: Bitef" festival achieve already at its opening?

It was opened and will be held, it defeated the censorship of this government, it united the Balkans - all this is the "no: Bitef" festival, the unofficial/guerrilla edition of the 59th Bitef, succeeded in an unimaginably short time and without money

25.September 2025 S.Ć.

In the year when Zrenjanin is the capital of culture, the director kicks out the artists

Jelena Gvozdenac Martinov, director of the National Museum in Zrenjanin, decided to take away the space of the Gallery from the fine artists. No explanation. And that at a time when Zrenjanin is the capital of culture

Political shadows over culture

24.September 2025 Sonja Ciric

Uncle Job Dragon did not deserve this

The performance Paci's School was removed from the September repertoire of the Puppet Theater in Nis immediately after the premiere because someone saw in it what was not there: protest whistles, the Palestinian flag and yellow vests of student-guards.

Censorship

07.September 2025 Sonja Ciric

DK Studentski grad: Canceled debate with student Nikolina Sinđelić

The latest censorship of the DK Studentski grad program, and another pressure on the editors, is the forum where student Nikolina Sinđelić was supposed to speak about revenge pornography.

What does the new censorship law bring in Russia?

Internet censorship

29.July 2025 Olga Tikhomirova / Sergej Satanovski / DW

Be careful what you search on the net, lest Putin put you in jail

Are you interested in what the defected Federal Security Service (FSB) officer Aleksandar Litvinjenko wrote in the book "Ljubljanka - Criminal Group"? Or what are Jehovah's Witnesses? You type in a search term and - the police knock on your door

Rusija

02.June 2025 S.Ć.

Banishing children's heroes: Why does Shrek bother Putin?

Popular children's heroes Shrek and the Grinch were expelled from Russia because "they are the means through which Western countries indoctrinate Russian children"

Mediji

30.April 2025. KS

Journalist Nemanja Živaljević left TV Newsmax Balkans due to censorship

After the announcement by the former Prime Minister of Montenegro, Zdravko Krivokapuć, that the interview he gave for Newsmax Balkans television was censored, journalist Nemanja Živaljević announced that he is no longer a member of that newsroom. Newsmax Balkans denies allegations of censorship

Censorship

28.December 2024 S.Ć.

Why is the movie "Beside Us" banned in some cities

The film "Next to us" by Stevan Filipović was refused to be shown in Jagodina, Novi Pazar, Ivanjica and Subotica. We have to believe that the director's support for students has nothing to do with this censorship

Censorship

09.November 2024 S.Ć.

Turkey: The film with Craig is dangerous for security

Just before the start, the film "Queer" with Daniel Craig was banned in Istanbul, even though it was supposed to open the festival there

Government and media

28.October 2024 B. B.

NIN published and then took down the text about the cooperation of Minister Vujović with the investment fund "Vista Rica"

The vice-president of the Party of Freedom and Justice, Marinika Tepić, claims that the text in which she explains the connection between the Minister of the Environment, Irene Vujović, and the investment fund of lawyer Veljko Belivuk, was taken down from the NIN website soon after it was published. Aleksandar Timofjev, editor-in-chief of NIN, did not want to comment on those allegations

Censorship

25.August 2024 S.Ć.

State of Utah: Banned Margaret Atwood and Six Other Writers

The US state of Utah has withdrawn 13 titles by seven authors including Margaret Atwood, Judy Boom and Sarah J. Mas, accusing them of pornographic content

Education

01.march 2024 Today

Serbian PEN Center: Censorship of "Doroteja" is unacceptable

The Association Serbian PEN Center condemned the request of the organization called "Police Union" to remove the novel "Dorotej" from the school reading list and told high school literature professors that it supports them in defending their professional integrity.

Censorship

23.August 2023 Sonja Ciric

Due to the decisions of the local authorities, the holding of the two festivals was called into question

The president of the municipality of Veliko Gradište, Dragan Milić, canceled SILAFEST, and Branislav Šušnica, the president of Bačka Palanka, refused to Festival of ecological theater for children and young people pay the money due to them - because of disobedience. Both festivals are international

Rusija

19.August 2023 JH

Moscow: Liquidation of the Sakharov Center

In Russia, the elimination of media and organizations that are not in line with the Kremlin continues. It was the turn of the Sakharov Center, founded in 1996

Personal attitude

26.July 2023 Roland Orczyk

Palanka cake and whipped cream of tyranny

The "long nineties" determine the never completely free culture of Hungarians in Vojvodina. Anyone who speaks against the government is marginalized. In art, you can be avant-garde, you can experiment to your heart's content, you can talk about global problems, about Trump, Putin and other arsonists, only about local trash.

Culture

10.June 2023 S.Ć.

The effect of political correctness on literature: Censorship, prohibition, pressure, untruth

In the political sphere, it is useful in the sense of protecting vulnerable groups, but in literature it is dangerous, limiting and represents a type of censorship - this is the assessment of the participants of the "Literature and Political Correctness" panel at the just concluded Belgrade Festival of European Literature

Society

12.April 2023. S.Ć.

Censored books: Anne Frank ineligible for the Holocaust

It has become enough for a parent to judge that a literary or artistic work is inappropriate, so that it is removed or modified. Recent examples include Anne Frank, Agatha Christie and Michelangelo's David

Rusija

22.march 2022 JH

War censorship: Write and speak as you are told

Russian Duma expands "false information" law regarding "special military operation" in Ukraine. Until now, expressions such as "invasion", "war" or "aggression" were not allowed to be used in this context. Whoever in the future expresses himself in an undesirable manner about the sanctions introduced against Russia and the actions of the Russian state abroad, will also have to reckon with a multi-year prison sentence.