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War crimes, aggression and crimes against humanity are terms of the international law by which we define most serious human rights violations and which as such remain engraved in the collective memory. However, none of these terms attract so much attention as the word genocide. No matter how many times this term is repeated, it… »

On Wednesday 24 July 2013, in Budva, a SeaSide Pride was held, the first pride parade in Montenegro, organized by the NGO LGBT Forum Progress. Although announced on short notice, in the middle of the tourist season and in a city that is considered to be the capital of Montenegrin tourism, recently been present in… »

Montenegro will continue to exist, to the extent that its citizens stay committed to two principles: that the country remains sovereign from external interests and pressures, and that its citizens remain sovereign from political pressures by oligarchic structures. Three years ago I wrote here about a profession that does not officially exist in Montenegro but… »

What are the moral standards in Montenegro today? Which are the values we hold sacred, which allow us to tell good from bad? What is the ethical codex of the ruling establishment, whose leader is now, from the position of the moral policeman, starting “cleaning up”? Not long ago we could read in the papers… »

The problem is the state, which lacks the institutional setup that would make us all equal before the law and accountable for our actions. This is why in Montenegro “the rule of law” is an oxymoron. Parties and individuals toying with the state and its future are, on the other hand, just a daily fix… »

Everything that NGOs are doing is a form of political action since NGOs are political phenomenon too… Prejudice fair – (pdf)

It’s good to remember that women in Montenegro only gained the right to vote in 1945. Since then, it’s been a full sixty-seven years that they are still fighting for their rights and trying to strike a balance with men – who are considered knowledgeable and powerful just because they’re men… Leading positions are also… »

These elections did bring an important democratic step forward, most of all in the awareness of our citizens who more than ever before, although still too timidly, acted on their conscience… Is there any champaign for the citizens – (pdf)

This is also an attack on the constitutional foundations of Montenegro as a democratic state, which ought to protect the rights of its citizens, and be efficient in sanctioning those who violate their basic rights and spread hatred and violence… Barbarians of our times – (pdf)

The Government will fall when everyone in Montenegro understands that regardless of the number of lists the opposition runs on they are all united in the purpose of deposing this government, and that the political condition for this is unlimited… Elections in Montenegrin way – (pdf)