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The Balkans, which lie at the heart of South-Eastern Europe, have historically been an important transit route for drugs, especially for heroin coming from the East to be trafficked across Europe. 

According to the Serbian investigative portal KRIK, Veljko Belivuk, arrested on multiple charges in February 2021 and notably known as both a leader of the football club Partizan Belgrade’s fan group Principi[1] and as a top underworld figure close to the Montenegrin Kavac clan, described multiple occasions and cases in which President Aleksandar Vucic would have asked for favours, from providing security services at his meetings to beating up opponents.

How did the crisis management of the coronavirus pandemic led to the "covidocracy" – continuation of capturing the state? Find out in the latest BCBP analysis.

The working conditions deteriorated significantly in 2020 – not only those of civil society organisations (CSOs), but of all social actors who, in performing their activities, express critical views of the current political or social situation in Serbia. More about this topic, find out in the case study written by Bojana Selaković from Civic Initiatives.

How did the Regulatory Institute for Renewable Energy and the Environment (RERI) manage to prevent the preparatory works for constructing the cable car terminal on Kalemegdan? Find out in the latest case study written by Jovan Rajić and Mirko Popović.

How the issue of building mini hydro power plants (MHPPs) on the Rakita River has become one of the largest environmental initiatives in recent years in Serbia? Read in the case study written by activists of the initiative " Let’s Defend the Rivers of Stara Planina [Old Mountain]".

Which international mechanisms for protection are available to human rights defenders? President of the Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights YUCOM and a member of the Civil Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers Katarina Golubović offers the answer to this question in the working study.

Based on an analysis of top officials’ speeches, this text will show how officially promoted narratives about Kosovo serve to capture the state.

What challenges do whistleblowers in Serbia face? Can they count on protection and support? Do their cases have epilogues? Find out in the article of the journalist and member of the Civil Committee for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers Vuk Cvijic.