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Visiting the Balkans this summer? Get off the beaten track and visit some of the region’s lesser-known beauty spots.

Despite the small size of the country and a lack of a traditional beer-drinking culture, small craft breweries are flourishing in Bosnia.

Joe Biden’s visit to Serbia and Kosovo on his last Balkan tour as US Vice President is expected to focus on re-booting the stalled dialogue between the two countries.

This ancient riverside city, founded by the despots, has a lot more to it than a troubled steelworks – starting with a romantic fortress that is shrouded with myths and legends.

Macedonia on Saturday is holding a modest event marking the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Ohrid Peace Accord, which ended a six-month ethnic Albanian insurgency.

A British TV report about alleged arms traffickers in Romania is being investigated for allegedly putting the country’s security at risk.

At least two Serbian caricaturists whose work was used at a controversial exhibition organized by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, are considering filing a lawsuit.

Locals in one the most scenic parts of southern Albania fear that they could lose their homes as a result of a new urban plan for the area. 

Defence lawyer Haxhi Millaku said Monday's conviction of former KLA fighter Xhemshit Krasniqi was unjust and he expected the Court of Appeal to free him.

Ana Brnabic, the first openly LGBT person to sit in a Serbian government, has agreed to visit Dragan Markovic 'Palma', one of the loudest opponents of gay and lesbian rights, in his hometown of Jagodina.

Ruling and opposition parties in Macedonia have been accused of turning the relief effort for victims of the recent floods into into a PR contest.

Serbia’s Prime Minister has finally formed the new government with eight new faces, but few are impressed with his choices, or with his almost 48,000-word address that took six hours to deliver.

The Serbian Left party has organized a street exhibition in Belgrade called 'Censored truth' as a response to the ruling party’s own exhibition, called 'Uncensored lies'.

Two Romanian films have been selected for the 2016 New York Film Festival’s Main Slate, set to begin for the 54th time next month.

A tiny golden bead, unearthed at a pre-historic settlement in southern Bulgaria, is the world's oldest golden artefact, archaeologists claim.

A spoof political group that came second in Mladenovac’s local election by pledging to ‘lie transparently’ say they might field candidates at the next Belgrade City Assembly vote.

During the siege of Sarajevo, the city’s firefighters battled thousands of blazes while trying to dodge sniper bullets and shells, risking their own lives to save others.

Their rights may look good on paper - but in reality the LGBT community in Kosovo remains heavily discriminated against, in a society that still sees same-sex attraction as a disease.

The government in Podgorica is on the defensive regarding its controversial decision to approve export permits for a 2.7-million-euro arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

WikiLeaks email suggests Open Society founder’s advice to Hillary Clinton on how to handle the unrest in Tirana in 2011 was acted on.