Protest against nickel mining in the Khoper region in Russia goes ahead against a backdrop of trumped-up criminal charges and a high-level corruption scandal. On June 22nd, a large demonstration took place in Voronezh region, against copper-nickel mining, calling for a complete ban of coloured metal extraction in the Central Black Earth Region. About 1000…
Tag: protests
A Bosnian Spring?
A Bosnian Spring? Twenty years after the Dayton Agreement, there is something going wrong in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Despite the implementation of a remarkable reconstruction and development program after the war until today, corrupt and incompetent political elites rein the country. Unemployment rate is at minimum 40 per cent and young people and rural…