Dark side
The dark side of football takes centre stage in Macedonia. The death of young Vardar Football Club supporter Nikola Sazdovski, following the severe beating by three supporters of rival club Shkupi, revives old rivalries between supporters' groups and their opaque ties with politics.
Dark and opaque are also the relations between organized crime, drug trafficking and politics in Albania, where the fight against cannabis plantations has lead to shaky results – the power of traffickers is left untouched.
More in the news: the employment of Romanians in the agro-pastoral sector of Sardinia explored in an interview with anthropologist Sergio Contu; the development of journalism in Transnistria since the conflict of the 1990s.
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