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Thousands of people gathered on Saturday for a new protest over the unresolved death of David Dragicevic in Banja Luka, the biggest town in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska.

A Facebook group with more than 330,000 members has urged Bosnians to gather in the centre of Banja Luka on Saturday for another protest rally about the unexplained deaths of youngsters like David Dragicevic.

The Hague Tribunal and domestic courts have sentenced 45 people to 699 years in prison - plus three life sentences - for genocide, crimes against humanity and other offences against Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

As Agrokor’s creditors prepare to take over the company, analysts predict fire sales of the most profitable parts – and lawsuits from those who feel short-changed by the settlement.

Serbia's bare-knuckle fight to get countries to revoke their recognition of Kosovo is not contributing to a solution – and may be designed to scupper the EU-led negotations, analysts say.

Zagreb-based NGO Documenta - Centre for Dealing with the Past said in a new report that the number of war crime trials held in Croatia last year was the lowest since 2005.

Croatia’s Supreme Court reduced the sentence handed down to former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, from 15 to 13-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes in Croatia in 1991.

Moldova held a National Day of Mourning on Friday for over 100,000 victims of the Soviet purges, rounded up and taken on trains to Siberia, often to their deaths, in three successive waves.

As Kosovo leaders face growing criticism over the lack of transparency in the Serbia-Kosovo talks, opposition parties have dismissed the President's stated willingness to report back to parliament on the dialogue process.

China’s summit with 16 Central and East European states in Sofia will keep a low profile – as Beijing and Europe’s big economies prepare for a more substantive clash with the US in July.

Romania is under growing pressure from Hungary and energy companies to rapidly adopt legislation on exploiting its gas deposits in the Black Sea – but some experts warn that the current bill is a bad deal for the country. 

The Serbian Church’s leader in Montenegro, Amfilohije Radovic, shows no sign of cooling his fiery verbal battle with the Serbian leadership over its allegedly ‘treasonous’ plans for Kosovo.

Saudi Arabia remains one of the main export destinations for weapons from the Balkans, with Afghanistan, Iraq and Algeria emerging as new key destinations, SEESAC report says.

At least nine Serbs suspected of genocide and other crimes in Srebrenica have fled Bosnia to enjoy refuge from prosecution in Serbia, where they remain free despite alleged involvement in the massacres of thousands of Bosniaks.

Great Power politics in the Balkans is the common theme which has threaded itself through our selection of Premium articles this week, whether it be the relations between the EU and the Balkan states, or Great Power rivalry in the region. 

After Albania's government on Thursday flagged up the 'success' of its war on crime, ambassadors from the US, Germany and the UK seemed unconvinced.

The European Parliament has passed a resolution asking the European Commission to cut off budgetary support for Moldova for breaking democratic standards.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday donated Bosnia 2 million US dollars to help it store its surplus arms and munitions more safely.

Moldovan think tank calls on Chisinau to do more to address the problems facing war veterans still living in breakaway Transnistria.

Slobodan Karagic’s 12-year prison sentence for war crimes against civilians in the Doboj area in 1992, including the rape of minors and the unlawful arrests of Bosniaks, was upheld on appeal.