Balkan News

The apparent decision of a Latin American state to revoke its recognition of Kosovo shows the diplomatic struggle over Serbia’s former province is far from over.

The Kosovo Special Prosecution announced that there is no evidence to support allegations that Serb minister Nenad Rikalo tortured ethnic Albanians during the war.

The Bosnian Serb police arrested a man in the town of Pale after they searched his apartment and found an original copy of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian war.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has published an e-book about the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, aiming to increase understanding about the newly-established court that will try ex-guerrillas for crimes during and after the war.

Serbia is doing nothing to stop its citizens from fighting in East Ukraine while Moscow is ‘using Serbia’ for its battles elsewhere, Ukraine’s ambassador, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, told BIRN in an interview.

Bosnia’s Federation MPs has approved a deal with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, EBRD, that aims to resolve water supply issues in the Bosnian capital, which have left Sarajevans without continuous running water for a least a decade.

The furious reaction to the German writer Herta Müller’s forthright statements about Serbia’s recent history says less about her than it does about a culture of denial in a large part of Serbian society.

Albania has hailed an election deal, which it helped to mediate, between four ethnic Albanian political parties in Montenegro – designed to strengthen the community's hand in the neighbouring country.

Bulgarian governing coalition party GERB has set up a page on Facebook to highlight what it describes as ‘fake news’ - statements by members of the opposition which it claims are lies.

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After Serbia’s foreign minister said that the South American state of Suriname has revoked its recognition of Kosovo, the Pristina government claimed that this is not possible under international law.

Kosovo-born Mirsad Kandic, one of the most wanted alleged associates of Islamic State, was extradited from Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States to face terror charges.

The 14th-century ‘Sarajevo Haggadah’ Hebrew manuscript and the manuscript collection held by the Gazi Husrev-Beg Library have been included in the UN cultural body’s Memory of the World International Register.

The Constitutional Court backed a proposed constitutional amendment from pro-European MPs saying that the country’s official language should be called Romanian rather than Moldovan.

Zagreb county court jailed three former Serb fighters in their absence for burning down a Croatian village in 1991, handing down prison sentences ranging from five-and-a-half to seven-and-a-half years.

The EU’s statistical agency said that the union’s largest grower of pumpkins and squash is Bulgaria, where Halloween is growing in popularity among younger people despite disapproval from religious traditionalists.

States and ethnic groups in the Balkans are still denying that their troops committed war crimes in an attempt to evade moral responsibility by blaming the other side, thwarting the possibility of reconciliation.

If the traffic jams in Belgrade are not enough to scare you this Halloween, head out to these five haunted places in Serbia instead.

A new statue of the 19th century Bulgarian freedom fighter Vasil Levski has just been unveiled in Canada, as the fashion for putting up statues to him shows no sign of abating.

Croatia faces numerous international arbitration processes over borders, important companies or stopped construction projects – with potentially expensive outcomes.