Balkan News

Romania this week hosts the seventh Black Sea Defense and Aerospace exhibition, BSDA, which has attracted 270 companies from around the world, showcasing the latest military equipment.

The Military Court in Moscow has given a Moldovan citizen a long jail term for involvement in planned terrorist attacks on Russian soil along with other Tajik citizens.

The thrilling finale to the basketball competition, the Final Four, promises to make the Serbian capital a European centre for the sport.

The strengthening of Albania’s national currency in the last two years has hit exporters – and fuelled a debate over whether this is a result of economic growth, or of drug smuggling.

Senior officials from EU states and Western Balkan countries are meeting in Sofia at a major summit intended to keep the Balkan countries committed to European agendas.

Media organisations and activists signed a joint declaration calling for the EU to take into account the media freedom situation in member states and candidate countries while awarding funds.

A Kosovo court acquitted former Serb policeman Zoran Vukotic of war crimes, clearing him of beating then killing four ethnic Albanian civilians and assaulting and robbing others in 1999.

Former Croatian Defence Council battalion commander Mile Puljic was acquitted of crimes against humanity as prosecutors failed to prove he allowed his subordinates to use prisoners as forced labour and human shields in Mostar.

Bosnian politician and businessman Fahrudin Radoncic was acquitted of obstructing justice by ordering witness-tampering in the trial of drug trafficker Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo.

Former Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic’s request for contempt of court proceedings against medical staff at the UN Detention Unit, who he accuses of being responsible for his deteriorating health, was rejected.

Prime Minister Edi Rama has accused the opposition of falsifying an alleged conversation, which seemed to suggest the Interior Minister's brother had close ties to criminals.

Conservative clerics have launched a bitter attack on the Serbian President over Kosovo, with one virtually accusing him of contemplating 'treason'.

Hoteliers, car rental agencies and tourist guides are eagerly awaiting a windfall from the tens of thousands of visitors due in the capital for a rally in support of Turkey's President.

The Catholic church in the Kosovo village of Letnica, where Mother Theresa said she heard God call her to do charity work with the poor, attracts pilgrims from all over the Balkans.

A brass sculpture portraying American writer and heiress Nancy Cunard made by Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi sold for 71 million dollars at Christie’s auction house. 

Transport companies plan to block Bulgaria’s capital during the high-level EU-Western Balkan summit in protest against new European rules that they see as unjust and restrictive.

Three new investigations are being launched against several suspected Islamic State fighters and recruiters from Montenegro after the first conviction of a domestic ISIS militant earlier this year.

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic tells the UK Financial Times that the former province ‘obsesses’ him – and that he won’t turn into a Serbian version of Viktor Orban.

The OSCE mission in Kosovo said it wants renewed efforts to uncover the truth behind the kidnappings, murders and disappearances of Serb and ethnic Albanian journalists connected to the 1999 war.

Wartime fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were acquitted of murdering five members of a family in the village of Tukovi near Prijedor in June 1992.