One of the strangest and most disturbing moments during Orban’s long tenure was the period in 2018 during which he was repeatedly photographed - including during a meeting with Italy’s Meloni - with an enormous ethnic map of Bosnia. This coincided with a sharp uptick in his government’s support…

“Get ready to be inspired!”

I wonder what he’ll do with the ethnic map of Bosnia that he had up in his office. Maybe he can hang up in his living room at home now.

In Serbian, we don't say "he made a stupid decision," we say "he cut off his dick to spite the village"

Random thought from the past few days: Bosnians sure do love their songs about flowers.

That’s a Mike Tyson reference. youtu.be/25tP7Nn0mQY?...

Ok, last one from me: “Džeko and Tito after the Fall of Italy”

In all honesty though, we probably did them a favor. They urgently need a Calcio Tanzimat and maybe this will actually force them into one.

Hot take: if Edin Džeko had been Brazilian, they’d have another World Cup by now.

Bosnia just beat Italy to qualify for the World Cup. Unbelievable.

Reminds me of that evergreen Bosnian curse: “May your house be on CNN.”

For my money, this is essentially the smart critique of Platner. I might quibble with the implications, but there’s substance to it. By contrast, the consensus that’s formed around him on the rest of this website veers into utter hysteria.

Sarajevo’s Indexi. Also the authors of Yugoslavia’s first acid trip song around this time.

You’re laughing. Serbia invested so much money in this man and you’re laughing.

The guitar riff at the end tells me they did their research on us.

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You're missing the point arkadaşlarım. What Israel dislikes about Türkiye isn't whether it likes Israel, it's Türkiye's existence as a state capable of exerting its own sovereignty.

2017 recipient of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s “Heart of Sarajevo” lifetime achievement award.

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

Honestly a pretty accurate roll call of what used to be called “Balkan Twitter.“

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The basic philosophical divide in the modern American right is whether they hate Jews or Muslims more.

The @nytimes.com now confirming that, yep, this is exactly what happened www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/w...

Today I learned that the proto-Slavic word for forest is totally different from BCS “šuma,” which may instead be a paleo-Balkan borrowing with a cognate in modern Albanian.

It is not possible to find the words for this.

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

"Death by starvation in Gaza is not the collateral, unintended consequence of an… anonymous, amorphous crisis. It is the results of deliberate policy on the part of the Israeli government, bent on using the resources of a highly sophisticated state to render Palestinian life in Gaza impossible."

Just heard @mehdirhasan.bsky.social say re: Gaza: “we’d have to exhume Milošević’s body and apologize to him for trying him as a war criminal if we don’t try all the people involved in this crime.” Counterpoint: we actually don’t need to apologize to Milošević under any circumstances.

here is a good conversation @vukusiciva.bsky.social aje.io/egp80t

And, I will never stop pointing out, the international decision to retain RS within the postwar Bosnian constitutional setup was a conscious choice. It was not an unfortunate compromise that had to be accepted to bring peace, they could have insisted on its abolition even in 1995. They wanted it.

There is no 'remembering Srebrenica' without remembering the basic political reality that the West rewarded the perpetrators with almost half of Bosnian territory. The genocide is not resolved, it's not the past. The sheer existence of 'RS' is a continuation of the genocide.

Philosopher Boris Buden just wrote a savage critique of the Thompson concert in Zagreb attended by half a million people and soaked in fascism & racism. He calls it what it is: a mirror of Europe’s militarism, hypocrisy, and descent into moral collapse. Read it via Google Translate. It hits hard.

Is he too Muslim or not Muslim enough? He's Schrödinger's Muslim.

Bosnian Serb secessionists have brought American far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin to Banja Luka, convinced him that the RS entity is a “small country, determined to stay independent.” It’s literally a sub-national administrative region w/in BiH that was never independent. You’re in Bosnia, guy.

Crvena transverzala.

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Free buses and a rent freeze are apparently a “revolution” now.

It's low key exasperating that so many opponents of Trump have uncritically embraced the "TACO" label. Yeah, it obviously gets under his skin, but it's also basically goading him on to follow through on whatever God-awful policy he had in mind, so… seems like a bad idea? Let the man chicken out!

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There may be a historical analogy to be drawn between Serbia-Kosovo and Israel-Palestine, but not one that Schumer or Maher would particularly like.

The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: Why is the US bombing Yemen? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

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Leider nicht überraschend: Die Erosion der Grundrechte beginnt immer bei marginalisierten, wehrlosen Gruppen, bevor sie auf den Rest der Gesellschaft ausgeweitet wird. Die Gewalt an den Grenzen bleibt nicht dort, sondern greift ins Innere. www.ots.at/presseaussen... @kidpex.bsky.social

Every genocide was provoked if you ask the perpetrators.

My politics is the abolition of the economic system that created these two broken men