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Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 6. On my way to Majevica, I stopped for the night in Ugljevik, to the northeast of Lopare. The name Ugljevik is derived from “ugalj,” the local word […]
Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, and Part 6. International corporate invasion and the resistance against lithium mining In Bosnia, the quantities of minerals underground are often listed in the millions of tons. There are an estimated 1.5 million tons of lithium carbonate, […]
Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the others here: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. U tuđemu svetuBez oca i majkeBez brata, bez sejeSvaka tuđa zemljaTuga je golema In a strange landwithout my father, my mother without my brother, my sister every foreign landis a […]
This is the first part of a two-part series on anti-lithium mining protests that have erupted in Serbia over the last several months, and the broader environmental movement around it. Last September, the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel made her farewell tour to the Balkans. In Belgrade, she was welcomed by Aleksandar Vučić, the Serbian president […]
Over the past couple of months, crowds in Serbia have gathered in the streets and sometimes blocked major roads and bridges. The main reason for the protests is opposition to the proposed lithium extraction project in the Jadar River Valley in Western Serbia. Some of the slogans they have used include “Stop the Investors; Save […]
(translated from Russian by Emma Clair Foley) Everyone understands that the coming year will see Russia immersed in an economic crisis, one which will almost inevitably entail a social and political crisis. It was already over a year ago that Vladimir Putin, while taking part in his favorite genre of television, “direct association with the people,” […]