Montenegro
SEENPM: Alpac Capital takeover of Adria News Network must be closely scrutinised
We, the SEENPM member organisations in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, express deep concern over last week’s Alpac Capital’s takeover of Adria News Network (ANN). Its portfolio includes N1 in four countries; Nova S, Nova.rs, Danas and Radar in Serbia; and the Vijesti group in Montenegro. These are among the region’s few sizeable, independent, professional and non-nationalist news organisations. (In …
Monthly Monitoring Highlights – July
During the month of July, the RDN monitoring team identified a range of hateful narratives and discourse including sexism and misogyny, disinformation and hate speech and a range of unprofessional reporting from hate speech towards minors to historical revisionism. Relativisation and revisionism in Bosnia and Herzegovina The 11th of July marked the 31st anniversary of the genocide …
Women continue to give up their property: the spiral of emotional and social pressure
Although women and men in Montenegro have equal inheritance rights under the law, in practice women continue to renounce their share of inherited property in favor of their brothers, sons, or other family members, often under the guise of acting voluntarily or “for the good of the family.” The state does not keep records of …
Monthly Monitoring Highlights – June
During the month of June, the RDN monitoring team identified a range of hateful narratives and discourse on ethnic and religious grounds alongside attacks on journalists and professionals and anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments. Attack on journalists in Serbia and Montenegro The month of June for Serbia was one marked by a heightened number of attacks on journalists. One involved journalist Kristina …
Criminal charges against journalists are an attack on press freedom
The Reporting Diversity Network expresses its full solidarity with investigative journalists Đurđa Radulović and Andrea Perišić from the Centre for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN-CG). The two journalists, also long-time contributors to RDN‘s work, are now facing criminal charges filed by Ivica Janović, Director of the Montenegrin Agency for National Security (ANB). The charges came after CIN-CG published an investigative piece in which the two journalists examined …
Monthly Monitoring Highlights – May
During the month of May, the RDN monitoring team identified a range of hateful narratives and discourse driven by sexism and misogyny, alongside hate speech and intolerance, denial of war crimes and misinformation. Bullying and misogyny on reality TV in Albania During the last days of April and the beginning of May 2026, the reality TV program “Ferma …
Troll of the Month: Žana Mihaljević
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkan region. On 18 May 2026, the Montenegrin media outlet Vijesti published …
Monthly Monitoring Highlights – April
During the month of April, the RDN monitoring team identified a range of hateful narratives and discourse driven by hatred towards people with disabilities, political opponents and journalists, alongside sexism, xenophobia and misogyny. Sexism and misogyny in Albania and North Macedonia On 20 April 2026, Klan TV aired an episode of “Shije Shtëpie” featuring a …
Troll of the Month: Dragan Koprivica and Mitar Šušić
The Balkan Troll of the Month is an individual, a group of individuals or a media outlet that spreads hate based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or other diversity categories. The Balkan Troll is selected based on hate speech incidents identified across the Western Balkan region. TV Prva, a commercial television channel in Montenegro, invited guests Dragan …