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Plight of Bosnia's Public Broadcaster Causes Alarm

Bosnia's main broadcaster BHRT may close down altogether, experts and journalists warn, as the financial woes that have plagued the broadcaster for years already continue to worsen.

BHRT director Belmin Karamehmedovic told local news portal Klix on Wednesday that because of rapidly falling revenues, staff now have no health insurance, and their salaries are being paid late.

Postponement of Bosnian Fur-Farming Ban Angers Activists

Animal rights activists told BIRN that the decision by Bosnia's House of Peoples to accept an MP's proposal to postpone to 2028 a ban on raising animals for their fur was unjustifiable.

The anti-fur farming law was passed in 2009 and the ban was supposed to come into effect in 2018, but the House of Peoples endorsed the postponement last Thursday, using an urgent procedure to do so.

Bosnia Journalists Join Forces Against Pressures

In a rare display of professional unity in the ethnically divided country, journalists across Bosnia and Herzegovina have joined forces to stand up for media freedoms.

"Media that dare to do the essence of our job - asking questions - find themselves under different pressures," Milkica Milojevic, president of the BH Journalists association told Balkan Insight.

Bosnians to Welcome Football ‘Dragons’ Home

“After a historic appearance in Brazil, the Dragons will arrive in Sarajevo today,” said a headline in Bosnian newspaper Klix as fans prepared to welcome the team home on Friday.

Despite defeats to Argentina and Iran, which saw them eliminated from the 2014 tournament, the ‘Dragons’ ended their first World Cup adventure with a fiery display, beating Iran 3-1 on Wednesday.