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Press release
ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST
PETER NIKITIN DENIED
ENTRY TO SERBIA
Belgrade, 13 July 2023
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Peter Nikitin, a Russian
anti-war activist and one of the founders of the Russian Democratic
Society (an association of the Russian diaspora in Serbia
opposing the war in
Ukraine and Putin's
regime), was detained last night at Belgrade's "Nikola Tesla"
airport when he attempted to...
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Press release
THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX
CHURCH IS
ENCOURAGING
ANTI-SEMITISM
Belgrade, 24 May 2023
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
must warn that the Serbian Orthodox Church is encouraging the
already growing wave of anti-Semitism in Serbia
with this year's litany dedicated to Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović, set
to be held in Belgrade. Nikolaj
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Press release
BELGRADE IN MAY – A
BREEDING GROUND
FOR
ANTI-FEMINIST
ORGANIZATIONS
15 May 2023
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A series of gatherings that are being
organized in Belgrade with the intention of greatly reducing
women's rights – including the right to abortion – have emphasized
the extent to which the authorities, the Serbian Orthodox Church,
and right-wing pro-Russian organizations...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 167
HUNGARY AND SERBIA:
REGIME SIMILARITY
May 2023
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Of all neighbouring countries Serbia
has maintained the best relations with Hungary over the past ten or
so years. Its turning to the Visegrad Group, primarily to Hungary,
already be gan during the time of President Boris Tadić, with the
hope that Serbia will receive...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 166
CROATIA: CONSTANT
RIVAL
January 2023
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The relations between Serbia and
Croatia are crucial for the Western Balkans, above all when it comes
to security. The brutal breakup of
Yugoslavia left many open
questions in the relations between the two countries, especially
regarding the interpretation of the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 165
TURKEY: A REGIONAL
POWER IN THE BALKANS
November 2022
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After the end of the Cold War in the
1990s, Turkey was looking for greater space for the implementation
of its centuries-old ambitious foreign policy. President Turgut Ōzal
already had
a vision of Turkey as a regional power perceiving the
Western Balkans as...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 161
SERBIA: BETWEEN TWO
WORLDS
March 2022
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The international order is undergoing a
profound structural transformation of the global political system
and overall international, and therefore regional relations. This is
also reflected in the Balkans, which is a kind of competition ground
for...
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Press release
INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN OF
HATRED AGAINST
BOSNIAKS
Belgrade, 9 January, 2022
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Due to a series of new incidents
glorifying
genocide and war criminals with songs and graffiti, and threatening
Bosniaks with a new massacre, tensions and fear in Priboj and among
Bosniaks in
Sandžak are growing. Even on Christmas Eve, dozens of young men...
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Press release
THE RISE OF POLITICAL
VIOLENCE
Belgrade, 3 December 2021
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The Serbian government is inciting the
nazification of its politics and the society as a whole, which
reached its culmination during the past month and a half. The state
authorities, especially the police, are particularly responsible for
the growing number of violent incidents. The Helsinki Committee
has long been...
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Press release
THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET
MUST NOT BE A
MEANS
OF COERCION AND
INTIMIDATION
Beograd, 8. septembar 2021.
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
calls on the members of the National Assembly of the Republic of
Serbia to reject the Draft Law on the Use of the Serbian Language in
Public Life and the Protection and Preservation of the Cyrillic
Alphabet. Serbia does not need a law that...
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Press release
DANGEROUS MESSAGES
FROM THE AUTHORITEIS
Belgrade, 19 July 2021
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The latest appearances of high-ranking
Serbian officials, especially Aleksandar Vulin, the current Minister
of the Interior, are increasingly isolating Serbia in the
region and
moving it away from the allegedly desired goal, EU membership. The
celebration of the 13th anniversary of the Movement of...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 160
SERBIA: TURNING
AWAY FROM THE EU
March 2021
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For several years now, Serbia has been
on a path of regression, while its democratic potential gradually
vanishes. In their recent reports, international organizations that
assess the level of democracy,
such as Freedom House, point out that
Serbia no longer belongs to democratic states. The...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 159
YUGOSLAVIA AS AN
EMANCIPATORY PROJECT
December 2020
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In academic and public discourse, a
clear
distinction is often made between the first and the second
Yugoslavia. It is not necessary to use quotation marks here, because
the mentioned distinction reflects the essential differences between
the
two historical creations, which differed radically...
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Appeal
THE NEED FOR AN ACTIVE
AND OFFENSIVE EU
ENGAGEMENT
May 4, 2020
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Like all other European countries and
the rest of the world, our country is also faced with dramatic
humanitarian, economic
and political consequences of the pandemic. The changes occurring
during the pandemic, to which we must respond both collectively and...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 154
FOREIGN POLICY:
VACILLATION FREED
FROM FORETHOUGHT
January 2020
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Against the backdrop of global
geostrategic shifts Serbia has neither defined the main objectives
of its foreign policy nor the values to rest it on. In the situation
of global commotion, the Balkans had become a
point of rivalry between powerful international...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 153
REVISIONISM AS A
FACTOR OF REGIONAL
DESTABILIZATION
December 2019
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In the cult dystopic novel Brave New
World, the same as in Orwell’s 1984 and many other literary writings
of similar genre, historical contexts are subject to arbitrary
modifications, which actually testifies of a true awareness about
the significance of the past as...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 152
THE KOSOVO MYTH
December 2019
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The historians who studied the
historical sources on
the Battle of Kosovo, from Ilarion Ruvarac and Ljubomir Kovačević,
the founder of critical historiography in Serbia, to Sima Ćirković,
who studied the relevant sources during the last decades of the 20th
century, concluded that there existed few reliable...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 149
VALUES OF THE
MILOŠEVIĆ ERA
REAFFIRMED
September 2019
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The Serbian elite has proved to be
incapable of adjusting itself to new imperatives of a changed
international constellation. Unwillingness for facing up the
consequences of Milošević’s policy blocked the country’s political
scene from profiling of the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 147
THE “MINI SUMMIT” IN
BERLIN: A NEW TRY
May 2019
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Negative tendencies, especially
Russia’s undermining effects, as
well as permanent security challenges that may jeopardize the
European Union as such, led to the conclusion that EU should act
more vigorously
towards consolidation of
the Western Balkans so...
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Press release
TABLOIDS AND THE
PRESIDENT ENDANGER
THE SAFETY OF RADA
TRAJKOVIC
Belgrade, April 19, 2019
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A variety of speculations about Rada
Trajkovic’s testimony in the case of the murder of Oliver Ivanovic
run by pro-regime tabloids Informer and Alo, as well as the
statement by Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic practically stand
for a threatening...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 141
WAITING FOR VUČIĆ’S
DECISION
April 2018
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In the midst of today’s global turmoil
when “old” and new big power are trying to position
themselves
through presence and influence as favorably as possible, the Balkans
has (once again) became a point where their competing interests
clash...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 139
ACCESS TO THE EU:
A MATTER OF CHOICE
February 2018
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The European Commission’s strategy for
EU enlargement to the Western Balkans is an important and
all-inclusive document that taken into consideration all the
circumstances both the EU and the region are faced...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 138
CHINA: A NEW GLOBAL
PLAYER IN THE BALKANS
January 2018
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The international order is shifting
largely in the ongoing geopolitical transition. China plays a major
role in this process being among the leading global powers. Once
Western democracies had faced the consequences...
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AN APPEAL FOR DAILY
DANAS
Belgrade, 26 April 2017
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Over the past twenty years the Danas
daily has been staunchly standing for democratic values and
resisting all forms of authoritarianism, media manipulation and
degradation of public communication. The paper played a... More >>> |
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 133
MACEDONIA AT THE
CROSSROADS
March 2017
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The situation in Macedonia is has
reached the critical point and is threatening in many ways:
deepening of the Macedonian crisis
could have a dangerous effect on
the entire region...
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Press release
STOP WITH LIES AND
DENIAL
Belgrade, February 26, 2017
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The feuilleton titled “Genocide against Serbs in
Sarajevo” the Politika daily has been running since February 23,
once again ruthlessly distorts the facts about the war in
Bosnia-
Herzegovina in...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 131
SERBIA’S REGIONAL
OFFENSIVE
January 2017
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Collapse of the world order,
uncertainties about the course the new US administration would take,
as well as Russia’s
growing presence in the Balkans greatly influence...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 126
SERBIA AND BREXIT
July 2016
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Serbia’s elite’s reactions to the
growingly complex global situation, especially in Europe, boil down
to gloating; every new crisis is being used as an argument against
EU’s sustainabili...
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WHO DESECRATES
ALBANIAN GRAVES?
Belgrade, June 22, 2016
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The Helsinki Committee
has learned from several
sources that ethnic
Albanians from the villages in the Medvedja
municipality were faced
with a new form of
harassment. Over the past twenty days unknown “archeologists”...
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ANTI-SEMITIC MISUSE
OF THE MEDIA
Belgrade, February 29, 2016
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The Human Rights House strongly
condemns Editor-
in-chief of the Vecernje Novosti Ratko Dmitrović’s fascist and
anti-Semitic assault at writer Filip David. A personal gesture and
intellectual... More >>> |
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Press release
BRUTAL ASSAULTS AT
THE MEDIA IN VOJVODINA
Belgrade, February 14, 2016
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The Human Rights House strongly condemns the
smear campaign two
pro-governmental media outlets, Informer and
Pink, have been staging against the Indepen... More >>> |
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ACADEMY PRESIDENT’S
COURAGEOUS GESTURE
Belgrade, October 19, 2015
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
welcomes the courageous gesture of President of the Serb Academy of
Arts and Sciences /SANU/ Vladimir Kostić who spoke out about the
reality recognizing Kosovo’s independence. Serbia’s elite...
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TO WHOM TOMISLAV
NIKOLIĆ THREATENS?
Belgrade, October 17, 2015
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
strongly condemns
President Tomislav
Nikolić’s statement about “the
outbreak of civil war in Serbia” in the event the official Belgrade
recognizes Kosovo; speaking of which, it makes no...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 116
SERBIA AT A SEESAW
June 2015
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Ukrainian, Greek and especially Macedonian
crises provided a crucial insight into the situation of the Balkans.
What
motivated the West’s return to the Balkans were the...
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ANTI-FASCISM DENIED
May 15, 2015
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
strongly condemns the Belgrade Higher Court’s decision to
rehabilitate Dragoljub Draža Mihailović, the commander of the
Tchetnik Movement. In the aftermath of...
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HUMAN RIGHTS - OSCE
PRIORITY
Belgrade, April 16th 2015
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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia,
Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights- YUCOM, Humanitarian Law Centre,
Forum for Ethnic Relations and Public Policy Research Centre held
the first
press-conference on the
establishment of the
Coordination...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 108
CHAOS AS MODUS
VIVENDI
November 2014
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Placed in a larger context a series of
developments
over the past weeks
indicate that Serbia has reached
the point where the schizoid “both EU and Russia” policy becomes...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 106
RED CARPET FOR PUTIN
October 2014
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brief visit to
Belgrade attracted
considerable attention at international arena
carefully listening to messages
about traditional friendship
Belgrade and Moscow...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 104
ON THE RUSSIAN
CHESSBOARD
July 2014
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Over the past eight years Serbia has been given a
major role in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategy for the
Balkans. Observers in the West have growingly focused...
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Press release
“MEMORANDUM”
POLICY REFUELED
June 25, 2014
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The synchronized
interviews with
Academician Vasilije
Krestić two
high circulation metropolitan papers –
Politika and Vecernje
Novosti
– carried last weekend signaled the beginning of the election
campaign by...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 99
SERBIA IN THE WEST?
January 2014
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The first intergovernmental conference on 21
January 2014 in Brussels marked the beginning of Serbia’s long
journey to the
European Union (EU) - after ten years of hesitation,
the burden of the Milosevic era legacy and many obstacles to
re-embracing the form of a civilized state. The...
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Helsinki Committee for
Human Rights in Serbia
NO EMPATHY
FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS
Belgrade, November 29, 2013.
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These days in Serbia the humanitarian tragedy of the people from
Middle East and North African countries desperately fleeing
their homes got an additionally inhuman proportion. Hundreds of
men, women and children are still left without a...
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Office of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ivan
Mrkic
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS OF THE
REPUBLIC
OF SERBIA
Helsinki Committee for
Human Rights in
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Dear Mr. Minister, Helsinki Committee for Human
Rights in Serbia expresses a deep concern due to frequent
inappropriate
public state...
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Harangue against Sonja
Biserko
THE STATE AND SOCIETY
IN DEEP MORAL CRISIS
November 25, 2013
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The right-wing’s vulgar and dangerous assaults at
Chairwoman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
Sonja Biserko on the one hand, and governmental institutions and
political structures’ failure to adequately react against them on
the...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 98
KOSOVO: SERBIA STICKS
TO ITS STRATEGY
November 2013
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Local elections in Kosovo, called in its entire
territory for the first time ever, demonstrated once again the major
trait of Serbia’s policy for “recognition” of
the new reality in the region, for Kosovo this time. Serbia’s
overall situation – dramatic state of its...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 97
KOSOVO ELECTIONS:
A STEP TOWARDS EU
October 2013
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Local elections in Kosovo, now scheduled for
November 3, make a major section of the Brussels Agreement (singed
on April 18, 2013) considering their relevance to integration of
Serbs in Kosovo North. The elections will test Serbia’s leadership’s
readiness to genuinely Serbs’ turnout...
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