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The newsletter that brews you the perfect Balkan-flavoured cup every Friday morning. News, trends and curiosities by trusted sources from Ljubljana to Istanbul.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Déjà vote (opens the original)
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Good morning everyone,Welcome back. This is Balkan Brew, bringing you the best from Ljubljana to Istanbul every Friday morning.Hope you’re doing well! We’ve quickly forgotten our holidays and are ready to roll, with important elections coming up in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. More on that below.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nvwb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%
Kosovo’s heroes, Serbia’s criminals (opens the original)
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Hiya,Welcome back. This is Balkan Brew, your weekly Balkan fix, prepared and sent every Friday morning.Hope you’re doing well. This week we’re finally back together, yaaaay!It’s been a pretty tough week – hence why this issue is landing in your inbox later than usual.OUR BAD. In the original version of this newsletter, we said the AI-slop video at the end depicted Bosniak politician Ramo Isak. It actually shows another Bosniak candidate from the SDA party, Haris Zahiragić. The text has now been
Many clocks'a ticking (opens the original)
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Good morning, everyone.Welcome back to Balkan Brew, your trustworthy newsletter on everything Balkan. Tommaso here, running on fumes once again, so this week’s edition is another ristretto.Bosnia and Herzegovina won the Football World Cup last week! It was the 3v3 Street Football World Cup, technically, but the goals and dribbling were impressive nonetheless.But fear not: Rodolfo will be back next Friday, along with the full edition of the newsletter. Heartfelt thanks for your patience and if yo
Standard chaos in Serbia (opens the original)
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Good morning everyone,Welcome back to your weekly Balkan Brew date. Tommi here. Rodolfo is on vacation, and unfortunately you’ll have to make do with me and a super ristretto edition. Sorry about that, I’ll try to make up for it in the next one.This is one of those weeks where every piece of news makes you want to go back to sleep and only wake up when September ends (is it too early to start with the jokes?). So before we jump in, something lighter.<a class="image-li
SPECIAL ISSUE - Mladić is dead, the denial lives on (opens the original)
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Good morning,Welcome back. This is Balkan Brew, your weekly newsletter with everything Balkans, delivered every Friday morning.We spent the week unsure how to open this issue. Thursday afternoon, the news made the choice for us.This one is just too big to beat around the bush, so let’s get to it.Mladić is dead<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eWz-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2
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