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Disaffected Bosnians use video games to mock top politicians
Fed up with the failure of their country’s leaders to tackle pressing socio-economic problems, Bosnians have been creating video games lampooning top political leaders, starting with Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the tripartite presidency.
Politicians are already ramping up the nationalist rhetoric ahead of elections this autumn, but of more concern to many Bosnians are poverty, unemployment and corruption. Moreover, the country’s extremely unwieldily political system makes it difficult for ordinary Bosnians to effect change through elections.
The first video game, El Bake collects money in Bosnian cities, features a masked robber resembling Izetbegovic, who picks
up money along a role while the player has to avoid police cars, protesters, potholes and other obstacles. As El Bake went viral in Bosnia, it was followed by another video game, Flappy Fahro, this time featuring rival Bosniak politician Fahrudin Radoncic.
The launch of Azerbaijan’s second telecommunications satellite, Azerspace-2, will be delayed until the summer, space transporta- tion company Arianespace announced on April 24.
Azerbaijani space agency Azercosmos, the first space agency in the Caucasus region, currently controls Azerspace-1, which launched in 2013, plus the low-orbit AzerSky satellite.
The launch of Azerspace-2 from the Guiana Space Centre was originally planned in 2017, then scheduled for May 25, but it has now been postponed; the date has not yet been announced but will take place after Arianespace’s next launch in July.
Bulgarian group Intrast, controlled by media mogul Delyan Peevski, has reached an agreement to sell 50% of the printed media business it controls through the Telegraph Media vehicle to the
US investor Nu Image, reported dnevnik.bg, quoting a press release sent by both parties to Focus news agency.
If the sale goes ahead it will considerably reduce the concentration of media ownership in Bulgaria, slammed by watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on April 25. Peevski’s group controls around 80% of print media distribution, according to RSF.
Launch of Azerbaijan’s second telecoms satellite faces delay
Bulgarian mogul Peevski to sell 50%
of his print media business to US investor