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Anatomy of a Moral Collapse: Jasenovac on the Serbian Political Market

There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their content—because they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the...

23.04.2026 6

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Vuk Bačanović

The American God

There is something at once profoundly demonic in its cynicism, deeply unsettling, and almost burlesque in Donald Trump’s latest AI-crafted...

16.04.2026 20

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Vuk Bačanović

Could “Sarajevo and Mostar Safari” Become Europe’s Epstein Moment?

The story of the so-called “Sarajevo Safari” – the alleged arrival of wealthy foreign individuals to positions around the besieged city during...

31.03.2026 7

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The End of Childhood

Long before Trump would transform himself into a messianic figure for the American right, Trump was the creator of one of the most grotesque...

18.03.2026 10

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Vuk Bačanović

The End of Childhood

Long before Trump would transform himself into a messianic figure for the American right, Trump was the creator of one of the most grotesque...

18.03.2026 20

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Vuk Bačanović

Students in Serbia Have Done More Than Merely Block Their Universities

Students in Serbia have done more than merely block their universities. For the first time in thirty years, they have lifted the stone beneath which,...

19.06.2025 10

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Serbian Orthodox Church and the Historical Revisionism of the Second World War in Montenegro

A few years ago, I reliably established that Saint Vukašin Mandrapa — the Jasenovac and Herzegovinian martyr — is in fact a fictional, or more...

20.05.2025 20

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The Interweaving of Bosniak and Serbian Historical Revisionism

In the Sarajevo Canton Assembly, it remains impossible to pass a motion to rename streets that currently honor individuals compromised by their...

06.05.2025 20

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Vuk Bačanović

The Self-Liberation of the Jasenovac Death Camp and a New Serbian Catharsis

Eighty years have passed since April 1945, when the surviving inmates of the Croatian Nazi camp—Jasenovac—rose in revolt, staged a breakout, and...

25.04.2025 20

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Never Again 1992

One distant April in 1992, the Sarajevo sky was, I remember well, ominously purple. The Muslim holiday of Kurban Bayram was approaching, and at the...

03.03.2025 20

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Vuk Bačanović