On the front page: Đorđe Balašević, farewell to the troubadour of Yugoslavia
Devedesete is the tenth studio album by singer-songwriter Đorđe Balašević.
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He knew how to tear tears, and at the news of his death, all of Yugoslavia began to cry.
Đorđe Balašević
passed away on Friday February 19 in Novi Sad, Vojvodina (Serbia).
He was 67 years old.
They came by the thousands from all over Serbia, but also from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia.
Novi Sad went up in flames on Monday evening in honor of Đorđe Balašević
.
As a final tribute to Yugoslavia that the singer had loved so much.
Tributes are increasing in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro ... Scattered throughout Yugoslavia, the members of the Courrier des Balkans also wanted to say a last farewell to an artist dear to them. heart, and account for
the wave of emotion sweeping through all the countries of the region.
In two years, fifteen young people close to criminal circles linked to Serbian football clubs have disappeared.
So far, these disappearances did not seem to worry the police much, at least until the recent arrest of Veljko Belivuk, the leader of the Principi gang.
The parents decided to testify.
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In Albania, Balkan Insight documented the story of the dismantling of a cocaine cartel.
The cartel ensured the traffic of cocaine between Latin America and Europe.
Kompania Bello
was dismantled in September 2020 after an Interpol operation.
The investigation shows how an Albanian ran this "sophisticated criminal federation" from his prison cell in Ecuador.
It is a privileged witness of the century.
Ivan Ivanji survived Buchenwald and became Tito's interpreter.
Journalist and writer, he publishes in both Serbian and German.
Soon to be 92, he's still on a good footing, good eye.
And besides, he's "fed up with being Jewish."
- Portrait
Decimated by the Holocaust and the exodus to Israel, they are only a few hundred in Belgrade.
But the Jews of the Serbian capital are trying to revive
Sephardic songs and prayers
, which arrived in the Balkans at the end of the 15th century and which have evolved through contact with neighboring communities.
Two stories to read in a series devoted
to the memories of the Jews of the Balkans.
Athens, Istanbul, Zagreb, student anger
Thousands of students have been protesting across Turkey
since the appointment in early January of a rector with Erdoğan's boot as head of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.
After 50 days of demonstrations and repression, more than 560 students arrested, the movement begins to evoke that of Gezi, in 2013.
What to give up Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
In Greece, it is the far adopted in mid-February by
the conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis
that ignited the powder: it provides for the possibility of deploying police forces inside university campuses, unprecedented in Greece since the sinister era of the colonels' dictatorship (1967-1974).
On Thursday February 25, around thirty students appeared before the Court of Thessaloniki.
Their crime?
Demonstrating ...
The violent repression of the February 22 rally
raises fears of a precedent.
In Croatia, it is
against the very conservative rector of the University of Zagreb
that the criticisms are concentrated.
For two months, demonstrations have multiplied against the authoritarian drift of Damir Boras.
Especially since the latter has since been accused of having concealed an embarrassing case of sexual assault,
in the middle of the #metoo period ...
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