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The citizens of Sarajevo take refuge from sniper fire

Interview

28.August 2026 Nemanja Rujevic

Michael Martens: The legend of "Sarajevo Safari" will live on

German journalist Michael Martens in a big interview for "Vreme" talks about why he suspected the story about the "Sarajevo Safari", how he debunked it and how many major world media fell for that story

Festival

15.August 2026 Robert Shepherd

Sarajevo Film Festival: Homeland is where someone looks forward to you

On the red carpet in front of the National Theater before the opening of the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, numerous celebrities from the world of film from the entire region were seen, the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, and a dozen flags of Palestine were waving in the crowd on the street.

Exhibition

02.August 2026 S. Ć.

Sarajevo-Belgrade: Culture never arises in isolation

The works of 61 artists from Belgrade will be exhibited in Sarajevo as part of the Creative Dialogue project, with the message that culture is never created in isolation.

European media

26.June 2026 Nemanja Rujevic

German FAZ: The "Sarajevo Safari" story is based on unreliable sources

The respected German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published an extensive analysis in which it questions the credibility of key sources for the story of the alleged "Sarajevo Safari", judging that the film and the books on which it is based do not offer sufficiently reliable evidence.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

18.May 2026. Sonja Ciric

There is no such thing in Serbia either: Because of fans from Zenica, the show about Sarajevo's Želja was canceled

Due to threats from fans of "Celek" from Zenica, at the 25th BiH Drama Festival, the play about "The Railwayman" from Sarajevo was canceled, and then the entire festival was postponed until September. To calm the passions

BiH

19.February 2026. IN THE

New accidents are happening in Sarajevo amid large protests

The tragedy in the center of Sarajevo in which a 23-year-old student was killed triggered mass protests. Another collision between a tram and a car, as well as the fall of a child from the cable car on Jahorina, added to the inadequate reaction of the authorities

13.February 2026. RV

The Sarajevo tram derailed at full speed and crashed into a stop full of people (video)

The tram was moving towards Baščaršija. When he was entering the main road at full speed, he got carried away, jumped off the rails and hit a bus stop full of people. A young man (23) died, and a girl (17), who was seriously injured, had her leg amputated

"Sarajevo Safari"

04.February 2026. B. B.

The first suspect in the "Sarajevo Safari" case appeared

The suspected Italian allegedly bragged to others that between 1992 and 1995 he went "hunting people" in Sarajevo

In addition to participating in the siege of Sarajevo, the recently deceased Chetnik duke Slavko Aleksić will also be remembered for organizing the mass exodus of Serbs from Sarajevo after the signing of the Dayton Agreement.

Slavko Aleksic

19.December 2025 Bojan Bednar

The death of Duke Aleksić, a symbol of radical chauvinism

In addition to participating in the siege of Sarajevo, the recently deceased Chetnik duke Slavko Aleksić will also be remembered for organizing the mass exodus of Serbs from Sarajevo after the signing of the Dayton Agreement, which is interpreted by the BiH public as "a policy of preventing coexistence and the definitive ethnic separation of Sarajevo".

"Sarajevo Safari"

21.November 2025 B. B.

Vučić on "Sarajevo Safari": I was in Pale because I knew English

"How will the Arabs help us with the NIS, if they see that I killed innocent Muslim children," said Vučić, commenting on articles that he participated in the "Sarajevo Safari".

Shutting down the program

10.July 2025 MT

The end after 14 years: Al Jazeera Balkans is closing

After more than a decade of operation, regional television Al Jazeera Balkans (AJB) is shutting down its program. With headquarters in Sarajevo and newsrooms throughout the former Yugoslavia, AJB was recognizable for its quality documentary and informative content. Although the official reasons have not yet been released, it is assumed that the decision to shut down was made for financial reasons

Conference of European Rabbis

12.June 2025 Samir Huseinovic / DW

Rabbis do not come to Sarajevo: What stirred up passions in Bosnia?

The sudden cancellation of the Conference of European Rabbis in Sarajevo caused sharp polemics in the public, from condemnations of anti-Semitism to moral demands for solidarity with the Palestinians. And while the organizers talk about the loss for the city, some officials claim that the rally was not a "message of peace" but an attempt to legitimize Israeli crimes in Gaza

33 years without justice

03.May 2025. IN THE

Crime in Dobrovoljačka: Remembering the victims of the JNA in Sarajevo

It has been 33 years since the martyrdom of JNA members in Dobrovoljačka Street in Sarajevo, on May 2 and 3, 1992, when 42 soldiers were killed, 71 were wounded, and 207 were captured and tortured in camps. After more than three decades, ten people have been indicted for these crimes. The commemoration of the anniversary is held in East Sarajevo and Sarajevo.

Chronicle

24.October 2024 IN THE

A student was injured in a shooting at a school in Sarajevo

Fiery showdown in the yard of the High School of Metal Professions in Sarajevo

Chronicle

03.October 2024 SZ

The singer was arrested for hiding members of the Skaljar clan

Singer Verena Cerovina from Sarajevo and her helper Ognjen Odović were arrested on suspicion of helping to hide the recently arrested member of the Skaljar clan Ognjen Orašanin

Reward

15.September 2024 S.Ć.

"Pathos" from Smederevo: Aska is a symbol of resistance

The youth theater "Patos", the only one in Smederevo, won the jury prize at Juventafest in Sarajevo with a performance in which white color and clean air were forgotten.

Postcard

28.August 2024 Robert Shepherd

The street that separates Istanbul and Amsterdam

During the Sarajevo Film Festival, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina has become one of the most lively cities in Europe for 30 years, and some of its contrasts come to the fore even more.

Cooperation

17.June 2024 S.Ć.

"United through dance": An example of the positive practice of Sarajevo and Belgrade

Tomorrow begins the Days of Contemporary Dance, a festival that arose out of the desire to develop this art in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the help of colleagues from Belgrade.

Reaction to the adoption of the Resolution on Srebrenica

14.June 2024 IM / RTRS

On the building next to the Embassy of Serbia in Sarajevo, an inscription appeared - genocidals

Unknown persons wrote an offensive inscription on the Embassy of Serbia in Sarajevo

In memoriam: Alexander Eisinberg (1930-2024)

03.march 2024 Marco Fernandez

The man who defeated the siege of Sarajevo

University professor, distinguished architect, former president of the Jewish community in Belgrade, Aleksandar Eizinberg, during the siege of Sarajevo, initiated a mechanism by which relatives or friends of people imprisoned in the city could send them money

Jubilee

08.February 2024. Deutsche says

Four decades since the ZOI in Sarajevo: When East and West met

The Winter Games in Sarajevo were opened forty years ago. The town was one, except for the restaurateur who ambushed Kirk Douglas and barely made it out alive. The OI were important for Yugoslavia, which then bloody disintegrated

Interview: Boro Kontić, journalist, documentarian, producer and Sarajevo icon

27.December 2023 Nedim Sejdinovic

Local journalism was and remains a servant of politics

Milorad Dodik countless times in his attack on Bosnia attributed the sentence to Andrić: "Where logic ends, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins." Who whispered this apocryphal quote in its most innocent form to Milorad Dodik, a former student of the food processing school majoring in meat processing, remains a mystery. Emir Kusturica? If so, I claim that he could not have heard it in the Second High School in Sarajevo, which Kusturica and I attended in the same years, even reading Andrić as an elective for the entire school year

Pollution

20.December 2023 NR

Sarajevo under the veil of smog, Belgrade high on the black list

The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina can barely be seen emerging from the smog in this morning's photos. On Wednesday, Belgrade also ranked high in the 11th place on the list of the most polluted cities in the world

NATO Secretary General's Balkan tour

21.November 2023 MN

Stoltenberg: Those responsible for the violence in Banjska must be punished

The Secretary General of NATO arrived in Belgrade last night. On Monday, in Pristina, he said that the alliance expects those responsible for the September attack in Banjska to be prosecuted, that it is important that those people bear the consequences, in order to ensure that this type of violence does not happen again.

Film festival in Sarajevo

04.September 2023 Al Jazeera

The program of the Sixth AJB DOC Film Festival has been published

The sixth edition of the Al Jazeera Balkans International Documentary Film Festival (AJB DOC), which will be held from September 8 to 12 in Sarajevo, brings 24 documentaries that promote human rights. The program is available on the Festival's official website, ajbdoc.ba, and will be shown at the Bosnian Cultural Center (BKC), Cineplexx Sarajevo and Chamber Theater 55

Culture

19.August 2023 BG

Jovan Ginić is the best actor of the Sarajevo Film Festival

This award comes just two months after he was awarded for the same role at Cannes

Column

19.August 2023 Teofil Pančić