Calling
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsA podcast on everything that is East of something. Produced and hosted by Aleksandar Brezar.
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Balkan Leaders: Milorad Dodik
December 18, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBThought by many to be the most openly nationalist politician in the Balkans, Milorad Dodik is a staunch supporter of Bosnian Serb separatism and continues to threaten with seceding the entity of the Republika Srpska, or what amounts to about half of Bosnia’s territory. For years, the president of the Serb-dominated entity has been instrumental in institutionalising genocide denial and the glorification of war criminals. Things got so bad that Bosnia needed its foreign peace envoy to circumv...
Balkan Leaders: Albin Kurti
December 05, 2022 09:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBKosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti was enthusiastically voted into power two years ago after pushing out entrenched establishment parties, winning by the highest margin in Kosovo's democratic history. Since then, he's become a persistent thorn in the side of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in the dialogue between the two countries in Brussels. Kurti went from being perhaps the most famous political protester in the Western Balkans, whose party was known for stunts ranging from turning ...
Balkan Leaders: Edi Rama
November 27, 2022 09:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBWho better to start the new series off with than the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama? Charming and colorful, sometimes literally, direct yet eloquent, Rama has captured the imagination of those less in the know by telling Brussels like it is, and wearing sneakers while doing it. In the eyes of those with a soft spot for the talented artist, towering basketball player and expert at showboating, Rama is perhaps the most charismatic of the Western Balkan leaders. Yet, some in Albania would d...
What's in the Pandora Papers?
October 25, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBEarlier in October, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) began releasing information gathered from the Pandora Papers, the largest leak of financial documents ever made available to journalists. It exposed the secret offshore accounts of hundreds of current and former world leaders, billionaires, and assorted celebrities. A whopping 11,9 million documents examined by more than 600 journalists from around the world are proof of unprecedented financial secrecy. The...
It's Only the First Hot Summer of the Rest of Your Life
August 21, 2021 11:28 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBIn the first episode of Calling, we are going to go to Greece, where almost 600 forest fires destroyed more than 250 thousand acres of land, more than half of which is on the island of Evia and immensely affecting people, their lives and livelihoods. 40 towns and villages have been completely destroyed, making it the worst ecological disaster in Greece of all time. Greece isn’t the only country that’s seen the worst wildfire season in its history. In Turkey, over two hundred wildfires burnt...