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Marko Nektan’s workshops explore spirituality through avant-garde dance.

A Kosovo court has jailed Enver Sekiraqa for a record 37 years - but the alleged mobster’s trial was a troubled marathon, featuring dozens of witnesses and a mass of conflicting claims.

President Gjorge Ivanov on Friday said he had partially retracted his controversial pardons of 56 persons, which has sparked mass protests and worsened Macedonia's political crisis.

While Kosovo's public broadcaster, RTK, has ignored an ultimatum to leave its premises or face forced eviction, no action has taken place as yet.

Representatives of Bosnian victims' associations have condemned reports that the Hague tribunal is considering temporarily releasing the former Bosnian Serb leader.

The Bridge of the Independent Lists, MOST, said it will vote to impeach Vice-Prime Minister Tomislav Karamarko, bringing the prospect of early elections nearer.

Evelin Banev has received big jail sentences for drug trafficking in Romania and Italy - but back home in Bulgaria the courts appear curiously reluctant to act.

Kosovo’s two main political rivals are sparring over a project to revitalize public transport in Pristina as part of a wider struggle for control of the capital.

Organizers expect 100,000 to attend festival of Serbian events and destinations.

Italian film legend Sophia Loren will be the special guest at the largest international feature film festival in Cluj, Romania, to pick up the festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.

June is the last month when Albania's squabbling parties can pass judicial reforms needed to open the way for EU accession talks - and fears are growing that the deadline will be missed.

Ana Hofman, a specialist in the music of former Yugoslavia, says wartime Partisan songs can be seen as subversive in today’s context of a global capitalist crisis.

Croatian ombudsman Lora Vidovic says political pressure and the recent rejection of her report in parliament will not stop her from monitoring human rights and discrimination.

Macedonia’s ruling party leader has been ridiculed on social media after accusing his critics of performing “sect-like” rituals that involved group chanting and stamping on his party logo.

It is not surprising that most Serbian mainstream media either ignored or only selectively reported on a rally in which more than 10,000 marchers demanded resignations over the controversial demolitions in the Waterfront area.

Several hundred locals in the west of Kosovo protested against a court ruling that confirmed the rights of the Serbian Orthodox monastery at Decani to 24 hectares of disputed land.

Families of victims from the village of Rezala accuse Serbian army chief Ljubisa Dikovic of killing 41 villagers during the war of the 1990s – and demand that Kosovo’s judicial organs investigate.

Official silence about Belgrade Waterfront demolitions - and the mystery death of one of the eyewitnesses to this event - draw some 10,000 Serbs to fresh protest rally on Wednesday.

Nationalist parties are emerging as the big winners - as tensions escalate inside the country’s fragmented ruling coalition. 

Montenegrin women's rights groups protested against a women's summit, which started in the capital, Podgorica, alleging that the controversial Serbian figure Vladimir Beba Popovic has organised it.