Balkan News

Experts engaged by the Bosnian Serb authorities will stage reconstructions of the deadly blasts at Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace in 1994 and 1995 and an attack on a bread queue in 1992.

Activists in northern Albania are preparing lawsuits to halt the planned construction of power plants that they say will wreck tourism in the Albanian Alps.

Vuk Jeremic has won important endorsements from respected media outlets in the UK and America - but Portugal’s candidate is still likely to win the top UN post, a Serbian expert said.

Ahead of the December 11 snap polls, Macedonia’s ruling party continues to use its old techniques to pressure voters, NGOs observing the election say.

Now the deadline for submitting election lists for October's election has expired, Montenegrin watchdogs have aired suspicions about the state's capacity to check on whether the parties' lists of supportive signatures meet the terms of the law.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik in Moscow in what appears a clear sign of Kremlin support for the controversial referendum.

Meisten arbeiten die Migranten in der Deutschen Politik als Schleuser Aufgedeckt: Kriminelle Migranten in der Politik Von Anonymous – 20. September 2016 4 2274 Beliebter Tummelplatz – nicht nur für deutsche Kirminelle In so gut wie jeder Partei treiben heute schon Migranten ihr Unwesen und versuchen, Ihre Interessen durchzusetzen. Nebenbei gilt es als schick und modern, Migranten in der eigenen Partei zu haben. Und sogar auf Bundesebene haben Migranten heute schon richtig was zu sagen. Zum Beispiel die Muslimin Sawsan Chebli, welche seit Januar 2014 Stellvertretende Sprecherin des Auswärtigen Amtes ist. Gern zeigt man Leute wie Chebli in Talkshows, um zu beweisen, dass Migranten intelligent und integrationsfähig sind. Doch, dass […]

Serbia: Football Fan Club Leader Among 30 Arrested in Drug Bust Published: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 14:44 A joint investigation by Serbian and German law enforcement has led to the arrest of 30 people, including the head of a Belgrade football fan club,on suspicion of producing and trafficking tens of millions of dollars worth of drugs, Serbia‘s interior minister said Tuesday. Authorities seized more than US$ 22.4 million worth of narcotics (Photo: Serbian Ministry of Interior) Authorities seized more than €20 million (US$ 22.4 million) worth of narcotics, comprising 303 kilograms of cocaine, 96 kilograms of cannabis, and 106 kilograms of hashish, as well as money and weapons, in a […]

Bulgarian MPs have backed a bill that allows the state budget to cover debts of over 0.6 billion euros owed by Bulgaria’s state electric company NEC to Russia’s Atomstroexport - but Brussels needs to give its approval.

As tensions worsen in Bosnia, Serbia's Prime Minister and the Mayor of the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica have spoken in New York of the need to keep the peace.

Leaders of Kosovo's Vetevendosje party rallied supporters in Albania - declaring that the campaign against ratification of the Kosovo-Montenegro border deal would continue.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network will host a regional conference on Thursday at which prosecutors and experts will discuss progress and difficulties in prosecuting war crimes in former Yugoslav countries.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Milenko Krsmanovic was acquitted of beating up a Bosniak civilian in the village of Pediste in the Sokolac municipality in July 1992.

September is the perfect time to escape the city’s heat and noise with a relaxing trip to one of Serbia’s most beautiful mountains.

The Pristina authorities will consider restoring a monument celebrating Serb and Albanian anti-fascist cooperation in WWII after a one-man protest by the head of the Union of Montenegrins in Kosovo.

TV and radio stations have been banned from airing most Macedonian songs because of a dispute over payments between the culture ministry and the Musical Copyright Society of Macedonia.

Referenda have been deployed as a political weapon in the former Yugoslavia since it started to disintegrate – but their consequences rarely correspond to what their architects intend.

The recent awarding of citizenship to six Kosovo politicians has triggered a debate over the Albanian President’s discretionary right to hand out these important privileges.

Zougla.gr Video e mëposhtme tregon momentet kur helikopteri AH-64D gjatë një manovre të gabuar u rrëzua në det. Sipas medias greke, komandanti i helikopterit mban gradën e lartë dhe bashkëpiloti mban gradën e kapitenit. September 20, 2016 22:28

das reicht locker für ein Ermittlungs Verfahren, wegen Auslands Bestechung und Morde gibt es auch, um Leute zum Schweigen zu bringen! Einer der Partner der vollkommen korrupte: Adam Craciunescu, der wegen Bestechlichkeit angeklagt ist. 42 Minuten investigative Dokumentation, inklusive der illegalen Wald Rodungen in der Ukraine. The most important supplier of wood is the state-owned Romsilva, whose president Adam Craciunescu is indicted for corruption in a case of illegal forest restitution. Romania: Illegal Logging Declared A ‚Threat to National Security‘ https://www.occrp.org/…/4787-romania-illegal-logging-declared-a-threat-to- national-security Jan 12, 2016 … Last year, OCCRP partner RISE Romania revealed how Schweighofer, an Austrian-based timber processing firm, bought massive volumes of … Romania: Austrian Firm at Center of Illegal […]