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"JEHONA"

MAGAZINE FOR INFORMATION, POLITICS AND CULTURE

BUJANOC, PRESHEVA AND MEDVEGJA

• Description of the project

Currently in the region of these municipalities which lie in the south of the Republic of Serbia (Bujanoc with 53.000 inhabitants, Presheva with 46.000 and Medvegja with 13.000 inhabitants) Except "Jehona" magazine, does not exist any other newspaper, radio or magazine in the Albanian language. Even though the Albanians make up the majority of the total population. The present media in Serbian are completely closed for Albanians. One cannot find a single article in Albanian, although the Albanians are regular taxpayers of this state. Having in mind all these facts, one can come to a conclusion that the Albanians of these municipalities are totally under an information blockade.

Even after the changes has been made in Yugoslavia, we do not see any changeable direction towards these regions ( Presheva, Bujanovac and Medvegja ). Since 24 March 1999 the Albanian press from Kosova is not allowed to come in these municipalities, because of the check-points boarding between Kosova and Serbia. So this magazine is the only mean for about 100.000 inhabitants that live in this region.

"Jehona" is an independent magazine, without political colours, with an informative character and deals with political, social and cultural matters, and it has an independent editorial policy. The magazine's topics give a considerable contribution to the communication and acquaintance between people of different nationalities. They also bring a realistic spirit in the solving of the current problems of this area. "Jehona" has a critical attitude toward the government and all other political parties that act in these municipalities and further.

Since we are the only Albanian information media in this region, we want to inform the population with our bi-weekly magazine.

• Background information

The founder of the cultural, political and informative magazine "Jehona", is the artistic and cultural association (ACA) "JEHONA" in Tërnoc, the municipal of Bujanoc. It started as a leaflet in June 1980, and then continued as a magazine, after it was registered at the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia (decision no. 632-03/'92 of 23 March 1992). During-1992 - 1997 with donors help, "Jehona" was published. Also it was printed with the money that was collected from advertisements and sale of magazine. During these years of publication, the magazine was interrupted due to the repression that was exercised by the state organs towards the conductors of the magazine. They were taken into informative talks. They were threatened by pressing penal charges for its chief editor. State organs against the magazine, made permanent pressures by confiscating some copies, especially those copies that were published in Shkupi (Skopje) because they were published very cheaply. At the moment "Jehona" has again started to be printed in these areas, but with the shortage of material means.

• Informative column - informs the readers about all events in these areas. The magazine starts with its own comment (editorial). This is a standard column and is very interesting to the readers.

• Culture column - generally deals with culture matters; Literary column - is dedicated to creators, respectively their literary works;

• Traditional creators - this column deals with the acquaintance of personalities and their famous literary works; Newspaper reports deal with the acquaintance of the way of the people's life from different environments;

• Children's creators - this column is dedicated to the literary creation for children's, to influence as successfully on the creation of the children's personality as possible;

• Ethnographic column is dedicated to custom rights and traditions of these areas;

• Art column is dedicated to the acquaintance of the artistic creation of personalities from national and world culture;

• Sports column will try to help with the sport development in these municipalities.

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