The last decade of the 20th century was unprecedented for contemporary Montenegro and the region. Years of state collapse, wars, crimes, destruction, refugees, economic breakdown, humiliation, poverty, and queues for basic necessities defined the period. While wars, war crimes, and destruction remain the most vivid part of collective memory, the economic and cultural consequences of… »
There are many forms of totalitarianism, but they share a common aspiration – to establish complete control over society and to suppress every voice of reason. Consequently, the responses to such regimes, especially those that culminated in the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 1920s and 1930s, had to be multifaceted. Within that resistance,… »
For most ethnic Montenegrins, the year 1918 rightly evokes negative emotions. Although exhausted by the Balkan Wars, Montenegro mobilized its army at the end of July 1914, expressing solidarity with Serbia before any other European state, and fought for about eighteen months on the side of the Allies during the First World War. It was… »
When European students took to the streets in 1968, they demanded social change and the breaking of societal taboos – and in some Western European countries, they also triggered a process of confronting painful parts of national history. In the Netherlands, as historian Tony Judt notes, young people tore down the wall of silence surrounding… »
In a time of identity crisis, history is not merely a discipline that studies the past of human society, it has become a key battleground for political conflict. This is precisely why modern-day Montenegro faces intense efforts to revise historical truth. However, this is not an academic debate or a result of new scholarly insights,… »
These days, we are witnessing yet another announced act of plunder – this time against the state of Montenegro and its citizens. As per the old bad habit, it is being looted by those in power, this time in an particularly amateurish and brazen manner. There is little left in this piece of natural paradise… »
There has been talk in the public for some time about the intention of education workers to go on strike, and yesterday that strike officially began. In this way, educational workers are trying to fight for the government to fulfill its obligations from the signed Branch Collective Agreement and increase their salaries, which, according to… »
The right to abortion has today been positioned not only as a legal, but also as a political and religious issue, which has been the subject of numerous discussions for years, both in terms of moral and legal treatment. Unfortunately, a consensus has not yet been reached on the right to abortion, which is also… »
“Education is what remains after you forget everything you learned in school,” Albert Einstein once said. What remains for our young people when the school bell rings? What interests them? What do they read, watch? What are the contents, and what is the value character of those contents? I fear that neither the parents nor… »
Disinformation has become a powerful weapon, sometimes even stronger than military artillery, used to undermine democratic values. Its most common targets are democratically underdeveloped and insufficiently Europeanized societies. Particularly susceptible to such forms, sometimes overt, but most often through sophisticated media and digital violence, are small states with vulnerable and unprofessionalized media, lacking the strength… »