Balkaninsight.com

Opposition parties in Albania will miss out on Monday, when the Electoral Commission shares out 500,000 euros between the parties that have registered for the June 18 polls. 

Thousands of believers are joining the annual pilgrimage to Ostrog, a monastery perched high up on a mountain in Montenegro, where people come from far and wide to be cured of illnesses as well as to pray.

The Serbian Royal Academy of Scientists and Artists has formed a legal team and says it will file charges against NATO for using depleted uranium during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia.

Ethnic minority MPs – whose support is crucial if the government is to survive – are insisting that Croatia's Prime Minister must distance himself from a right-wing hardliner who has repeatedly offended them.

Following a joint BIRN and OCCRP investigation, which revealed how weapons from Serbia end up in the hands of fighters in the Middle East, a Serbian ministry said no bar exists on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy has blamed 'fascists' nostalgic for the Milosevic regime for attacking him at a film festival in Belgrade.

From gun running to the collapse of yet another government in Kosovo, we look at a range of themes from the Balkans, including the story of the region’s modern-day ‘kings’… 

Kosovo is bracing for uncertain snap elections as few opposition parties, whose popularity grew in recent years, now have a chance to enter the main political scene.

A horrifying arson attack in Rome that took the lives of three Roma girls - assumed to be of Balkan origin - has highlighted the community's grim position in Italy. 

The Serb entity government’s plan to sell its stake in the Ljubija ore mine to Israelis is meeting opposition in the Republika Srpska. 

In closing arguments at Belgrade Special Court, lawyers for three former Serb fighters said they didn’t have command responsibility for killing 40 unarmed civilians in the Croatian village of Lovas in 1991.

Some Balkan volunteers are still fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine despite new laws to prosecute them if they return home, a paramilitary from Serbia told BIRN in an interview.

A coalition of NGOs advocating the establishment of the RECOM regional truth commission to establish the facts about the 1990s wars are relaunching their campaign across the Balkans.

Save Romania Union, the youngest party in parliament, is set to choose a new leadership at the weekend - with party leader Nicusor Dan facing accusations of authoritarianism.

The split between Moldova’s pro-Russian president and pro-European coalition is fuelling the country’s confusion - as corruption allegations swirl around the government.

Bulgaria's leading party has proposed changes to the electoral code that would introduce a fully majoritarian system - but they are likely to face opposition in parliament and even in the cabinet.

The state prosecution called for former policemen Nikola Zovko, Petar Krndelj, Kreso Rajic and Ivica Cutura to be found guilty of killing three Bosniaks during an attack in the Capljina area in July 1993.

Yet another government in Kosovo has fallen before its mandate should have ended after MPs backed a no-confidence vote in the administration.

‘The Siege’, a documentary film about “survival and resistance” during wartime in besieged Sarajevo, made by French war correspondent Remy Ourdan, had its Belgrade premiere.

After nearly six months without an EU Commissioner, Bulgaria has finally named Mariya Gabriel, vice-chair of the European People’s Party, for the post.