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Businesses and civil society groups have backed the new regime on Serbian imports, saying it is time the market learned to live without Serbian products.

A Croatian court sentenced former Yugoslav People’s Army general Borislav Djukic to nine years in prison for trying to blow up the Peruca dam during the war in 1993.

The Kosovo government's recent increase in customs tariffs on imports from Serbia and Bosnia was an assertion of sovereignty, but could be a camouflage for point-scoring by politicians who want to mask their failures.

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA,  arrested a suspect allegedly connected to the attack on US embassy in Sarajevo in 2011. 

Predrag Lazetic, who was a member of the White Eagles paramilitary group and a Bosnian Serb Army soldier, was charged with mistreating 11 Bosniak prisoners in Gacko in June 1992.

Kosovo police sources told BIRN that Milan Radoicic, a businessman widely seen as the real power-holder in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, is a suspect in the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic.

While the new government makes major strides in foreign policy, it appears to have forgotten the many pledges it made in 2016 about key domestic reforms.

The State Attorney’s Office in Split said it will investigate a former brigade commander from the wartime Republic of Serbian Krajina statelet for not preventing his subordinates from beating, raping and killing Croatian prisoners.

Kosovo police special forces on Friday morning arrested three people allegedly connected to the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, and another for obstructing police officers.

Moldova’s largest and liveliest city, Chisinau offers an intriguing mix of Soviet-style brutalist architecture interspersed with hidden gems that have managed to survive the centuries.

Although this holiday is mainly celebrated in the United States, the tenets of Thanksgiving transcend borders and bring friends and families together.

Romania on Sunday will inaugurate the tallest Orthodox Church in the world, the People's Salvation Cathedral, amid controversy over the use of public funds for the gigantic project.

Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity plans to massively reduce grants for Catholic and Muslim charities – while increasing funds for organisations whose agendas suit the authorities.

Several police and protesters were injured in Tirana on Thursday after protesters seeking compensation for houses due for demolition to make way for a highway clashed with police near parliament.

A joint Bellingcat-Insider investigation has identified the real name of second Russian military intelligence officer involved in the Montenegro coup case as Vladimir Moiseev.

Turkey asked Bosnia and Herzegovina to extradite businessman Ozer Ozsaray, claiming he is a part of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen’s network, which Ankara claims is a terrorist organisation.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s defence ministry was urged to investigate after it was discovered that Muslim soldiers have been unwittingly eating pork that was labelled as beef in their food rations.

Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic's father mediated in a lucrative weapons trade between a Serbian company and a buyer from Saudi Arabia, a BIRN investigation shows.

Pursuing and eluding the rule of law crops up as a never-ending theme in the Balkans and this week’s collection of Premium articles from Balkan insight, whether in the case of former Macedonian PM Gruevski’s great escape or Serbia’s and Moldova’s ambiguous efforts to improve the rule of law. 

Serbian and Kosovo media are trading accusations over Kosovo’s decision to hugely increase import tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia.