The Serbian media sky has long been entwined with the cobwebs of Russian propaganda, so it was pretty logical that the portal RT Balkan, a local branch of the Kremlin machinery known as RT (ex Russia Today), should also start its work. There were not enough televisions with a national frequency, tabloids, various newspapers under the progressive command, and dozens of portals to which Vladimir Putin is the way, the truth and the life, so now we also have RT Balkan.

For the sixth time in the last seven years, Žurnal journalists are winners of the EU award for investigative journalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This year, Žurnal's film from the Afera series - "Battle for the Political Commissioner" was awarded. Congratulations to our colleague Amarildo Gutić!

Everyone uses means that are at their disposal: some with the judge's gavel, some with a lawsuit, some by drawing a target in a tabloid, and some with open announcements of mass slaughter. And they are all joined in a joint criminal enterprise against freedom of speech and opinion, against truth and facts, against human personality. Which is quite logical - the totalitarian mind unmistakably recognizes who its mortal enemies are.

In the first part of the video series called "Putin's plan for the Balkans", we explain the general picture of the methods of influence of Russia and its satellites on this area. February 24. In 2022, Russia committed aggression against the population and territory of Ukraine. Are the Balkan countries Putin's next target?

While politicians are fighting for coalitions and mandates, with the hope that they will come to power, citizens are fighting to protect their rivers and nature. Not even a month after the election, an attack on natural resources began - with protests, the citizens of Žepa and Jezera are trying to prevent the opening of mines and the construction of a hydroelectric power plant

After warning about the harmfulness and illegality of the adopted regulatory plans drafts in Zenica, the "Pokret za preokret" or "Movement for Change" group is now warning about another problem - the violation of the authenticity of the monuments of modern architecture. They also point out that some important monuments, such as the Bosnian National Theatre, are being destroyed due to carelessness and lack of maintenance. In addition, they are disappointed that neither institutions nor politicians take a serious interest in spatial planning and urbanism

One European country was attacked for no reason, all other countries in Europe sided with the victims and helped as much as they can, and Serbia remained the last hole on the European continent, the only ally of the Kremlin criminal Vladimir Putin, despite reason, morality, elementary humanity, and even their own interests.

If you ask yourself why something has gone up in price, you answer yourself by saying that it is God's will/giving, in this case specifically - taking away. If you complain that there is no heating, you immediately encourage yourself with the not-at-all-relieving fact that there is a crisis everywhere. If you don't have a job, you whisper to yourself into your pillow that it will come - if God allows. You can't pay back a loan - you take a walk in nature and admire the colours of autumn.

The US Ministry of Finance imposed sanctions on Federal Prime Minister Fadil Novalić and Slobodan Stanković, Milorad Dodik's business partner, due to, as they say, undermining democratic processes. Žurnal partly reminds us of the reason why the voters should have sanctioned their two parties, SDA and SNSD, in the first place.

In February 2020, Safet Kubat founded the Rijeke Bosne i Herzegovine "Budi promjena" (Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina “Be the Change”) Facebook group because he could no longer see garbage in rivers and nature. He wanted to do more to solve this problem. Since then, he has motivated more than 20,000 people to take Facebook activism to the streets and create a real environmental movement. Activists and members of the group organized 3,500 actions to clean rivers and green areas, planted about 90 thousand trees and released more than 100 thousand fish younge into rivers and wild streams throughout BiH

When your political party functions according to codes and principles similar to those of the mafia, when your personnel policy is created according to the mafia style, where the most unscrupulous advance the fastest, and the henchmen unquestioningly agree to everything that is asked of them, regardless of the consequences, then you get a situation where yesterday's allies put you in prisons and take control of the territory.

Solitaire in the place where the city park is today, the demolition of the iconic cinema on the site of which there should also be a building, a gas station on a green area near the roundabout, "beautifying" the area by building skyscrapers - these are just some of the examples from the disputed drafts of Zenica's regulatory plans. Nevertheless, the informal group “Pokret za preokret” or "Movement for Change" points out that the issue of spatial planning and urbanism, both in Zenica and in the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is much broader and more serious.

The Law on Conflict of Interest is one of the EU's priorities for the acquisition of candidate status for BiH, but the ruling authorities are very worried that it will not be passed. The adoption of this law does not at all benefit the ruling parties, who do not even experience a conflict of interest in their everyday life, nor are they sanctioned because of it.

The way in which the Republic Commission for determining conflicts of interest in the authorities of Republika Srpska interprets the law has reached such an absurdity that there are almost no conflicts of interest in this entity.

Žurnal’s movie “Political party armies” reveals the abuses of associations founded to fight for the rights of war veterans. The politics has put them under its control after the war and today they are used as needed

The distribution of management positions in administrative structures in the public sector of the RS is part of the coalition agreements of the parties that form the government, and in order to circumvent the laws, the Government of the RS uses the vagueness of the Law on Prevention of Conflicts of Interest and the so-called Institute of Acting Directors when making appointments.

In the sea of different names on the candidate lists, there are many who have been successfully living of of the budget for years. Using the shortcomings of the law on preventing conflicts of interest at all levels, they successfully receive two or more budget salaries and allowances, without the possibility of sanctions

The Center for the Development of Media and Analysis (Centar za razvoj medija i analize - CRMA) organized the selection of the best journalistic research on corruption. Journalists from the online magazine Žurnal selected the three best investigative media content on corruption, Al Jazeera Balkans journalist Dragan Stanimirović, tacno.net journalist Elmedina Šabanović and etrafika.net journalist Andrijana Pisarević. We are publishing the story of Andrijana Pisarević

The Center for the Development of Media and Analysis (Centar za razvoj medija i analize - CRMA) organized the selection of the best journalistic research on corruption. Journalists from the online magazine Žurnal selected the three best investigative media content on corruption, Al Jazeera Balkans journalist Dragan Stanimirović, tacno.net journalist Elmedina Šabanović and etrafika.net journalist Andrijana Pisarević. We are publishing the story of Elmedina Šabanović.