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The trial of two Montenerin opposition leaders and 12 others over an alleged coup attempt may start this week, if and when the court confirms the charges.

Ivan Ivanji, Tito's German translator, writer and Nazi concentration camp survivor, now 88, recalls moments of love, loss and survival in an extraordinarily dramatic life.

While police arrest suspects behind last Thursday’s rampage in parliament, the former ruling party - whose supporters stormed the building - have accused the Interior Ministry of intimidating 'innocent' patriots.

A commemoration of the 1992 killings of Yugoslav troops in Sarajevo was held outside the capital after Serb officials complained of inadequate security and refusals to allow them a permanent memorial.

As World Press Freedom Day is marked across the globe, the future of the media in Serbia lies in the hands of a generation of journalists who are worryingly unprepared for the environment they are about to encounter.

Bulgaria’s parliament will vote to confirm Boyko Borissov's new government, a coalition between his own GERB party and the nationalist United Patriots, on Thursday. 

Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev has drawn a furious reaction from Serbian ministers following his interview for the media in which he called Serbia's PM a nationalist.

Our team brings you live updates of the most important events and developments in the Balkans as they happen.

Bulgaria’s far-right parties, grouped together under the United Patriots banner, are about to become part of the new government in an unprecedented development on the country’s increasingly turbulent political scene. 

Twenty years on, US author Joe Tripician recalls his bizarre experience of trying to write a state-funded biography of 1990s Croatian President Franjo Tudjman - and how his conscience derailed the project.

A French court has rejected Serbia’s extradition request for former Kosovo Prime Minister and ex-guerrilla Ramush Haradinaj, who is wanted in Belgrade on war crimes charges.

As Bosnia's state level broadcaster, BHRT, struggles to pay its bills, there are warnings that its disappearance would be a disaster for the country's divided media scene.

Ivica Todoric, the man who transformed his flower company into one of the Balkans' biggest business empires, Agrokor, now faces the possibility of seeing the debt-ridden firm go under.

Serbian tabloids have been publishing sensationalist reports about the possibility of war with Albania and Kosovo, but analysts said this simply allows the authorities to present themselves as guarantors of security.

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hoyt Yee will arrive in Macedonia on Monday as the political gridlock continues over the election of a new opposition-led government.

After Kosovo’s Constitutional Court said some of its procedural rules are not in in line with the constitution, the new specialist court to try Kosovo wartime fighters must make changes, again delaying prosecutions.

Asim Cenaj, a Kosovo municipal officer charged with inciting hate and ethnic intolerance by insulting Serbs at the council building in Decan/Decani, pleaded not guilty in court.

The separatist government in Transnistria has accused Moldova and Ukraine of trying to impose a blockade, after the two countries agreed to set up a joint checkpoint at the border.

The new manager of an old Yugoslav military complex denied allegations that the authorities are preparing a bunker to serve as command post for declaring martial law in the country.

Reporters Without Borders' latest World Press Freedom Index says media freedoms are diminishing in several Balkan countries, with Croatia and Serbia registering the worst declines over the past year.