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Jelena Milušić and Merima Ključo. Photo: Miki Olabarri Powell via Balkan Diskurs, used with permission. This article by Luka Čavar was originally published by the Post-Conflict Research Center on Balkan Diskurs and within the first edition of MIR Magazine. MIR, which means ‘peace’ in Bosnian is an annual publication and platform for young inventive people. An edited version has been republished by Global Voices under a content sharing agreement. While Jelena Milušić caresses the specific counter-alto with her voice, one of the world’s most famous accordionists, Merima Ključo, accompanies Jelen...
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Photo of Politikin Zabavnik inserts featuring bilingual comics in Serbian and Romani languages. Photo by Meta.mk, used with permission. This article was first published by Meta.mk. An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices and Metamorphosis Foundation. The popular Serbian weekly magazine Politikin Zabavnik, which celebrates its 85th anniversary this year, published a comic in the Romani language. The comic by Lazo Sredanović and Nikola Lekić features the adventures of Dikan “the youngest Ancient Slaw,” which were extremely popular across the ...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva Despite all its efforts, the government of Azerbaijan failed to prevent a scheduled EU–US–Armenia summit in Brussels with Armenia's prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, EU commissioner Von der Leyen and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on April 5. The meeting was highly criticized by the government of Azerbaijan on the grounds that it would negatively affect the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as per a statement from Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But the meeting was not at all about Azerbaijan nor the peace process. FOMO moment Days ahead of...
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Work by Maria Prymachenko, photo from Ukrainian House exhibition in Kyiv in 2023 by Filip Noubel, used with permission. Are you from Ukraine? Would you like to write about Ukraine or the experience of living as a Ukrainian refugee, or member of the Ukrainian Diaspora? Global Voices is a multilingual international media commissioning paid stories of about 1,300 words. Stories can be written in Ukrainian, English, or Russian. Some topic suggestions are: First-person accounts of the war from a civilian perspective (essays or interviews)Ukraine and media diversity, freedom of expression, future of...
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Romani people from Kineshma (Ivanovo Oblast, Central Russia): Ruska Roma or Vlach Romaю Nikolay Omonov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons According to the Russia's last credible census in 2010, Romani diasporas (among Russian speakers, the word цыгане—gypsies—is still widely used, including in the media and among academics) comprised around 220,000 people. The total population) of Russia, according to the same census, was around 143 million. Representatives of Romani diasporas claimed the number was closer to one million people, but researchers believe the number is somewhere in between. The...
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March for Visibility of Transgender People in Skopje, North Macedonia, March 29, 2024. Photo by Vančo Džambaski from the photo album ‘Marching Boldly’ on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED). Transgender people in North Macedonia are refusing to be silenced, and they took their concerns to the streets in a March for Visibility of Trans People in Skopje on March 29, organised by the civil society organization TransFormA. The march took place ahead of International Transgender Day of Visibility (often referred to as TDOV or Trans Day of Visibility), an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to ce...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva This story was first published on OC Media’s website. An edited version is republished here under a content partnership agreement. The ruling Georgian Dream party is risking the country's European aspirations ahead of the October parliamentary vote after proposing constitutional amendments that would outlaw queer “propaganda,” including banning public demonstrations or publications that it deemed to “popularize same-sex family or intimate relations.” The proposed changes would also ban gender transitioning. Pundits say the ruling party is throwing the country's EU as...
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Image created using Canva. About six years ago, I wrote about a new “virus” for journalism. Despite the fact that several years have passed, there is still no “anti-virus” against deepfakes, the making of which has been advanced and perfected, and the last step is to simplify the production process of these hoax videos. Thus far, there has been a need for certain skills in using specific programs to produce deepfakes. The development of new applications based on artificial intelligence but easier to use is leading to the mass production of deepfakes. In the last presidential election in the Un...
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The Memorial to the Victims of Repressions of the Balkar People in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. Photo by an anonymous author. Used with permission. As of March 2024, around 300 Chechens, 70 Ingush people, 900 Dagestanis, 120 natives of Karachay-Cherkessia and 130 natives of Kabardino-Balkaria have died in the current Russian–Ukrainian war, according to publicly available data. All of them come from Russia’s North Caucasus region. It is unknown how much these numbers differ from the real ones. The natives of the North Caucasus have been disproportionately mobilized for the war. For example, the...
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H. H. Salter, On asthma: chest of an asthmatic. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection. This article is based the coverage by Meta.mk An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices and Metamorphosis Foundation. Between January 1 and February 14, 2024, the Institute for Public Health of Republic of North Macedonia registered 28 cases of whooping cough (pertussis), mostly in unvaccinated babies. This is more than twice the total the number of cases in the previous five years (2019–2022) which amounted to 9. Epidemiologi...
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