Balkan News

A new film by BIRN Serbia, 'SNS – the start,' follows the origins and rise of Serbia's ruling Progressive Party, SNS – and how it became the most powerful political force in the country.

A student’s attempt to stage a graffiti protest has got caught up in the complex politics surrounding the memorial in Sofia to the Red Army.

The question is not whether the economic ‘bomb’ will explode but whether, as in a Terminator film, countries get blown to pieces or walk away with a few smoke stains.

The head of Macedonia’s Helsinki Committee, Uranija Pirovska, says Nikola Gruevski’s escape and other worrying developments are fast destroying hopes of a return to the rule of law in Macedonia.

Hungary’s bumpy relations with Croatia have improved since Croatian MEPs backed Budapest in a critical Strasbourg vote – but now a fresh dispute threatens to reopen the breach.

Businesses and civil society groups have backed the new regime on Serbian imports, saying it is time the market learned to live without Serbian products.

A Croatian court sentenced former Yugoslav People’s Army general Borislav Djukic to nine years in prison for trying to blow up the Peruca dam during the war in 1993.

The recent increase in customs tax by the Kosovo government exhibits the need for sovereign decisions, but could be a camouflage for political point scoring for politicians who want to mask their failures.

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA,  arrested a suspect allegedly connected to the attack on US embassy in Sarajevo in 2011. 

Predrag Lazetic, who was a member of the White Eagles paramilitary group and a Bosnian Serb Army soldier, was charged with mistreating 11 Bosniak prisoners in Gacko in June 1992.

Kosovo police sources told BIRN that Milan Radoicic, a businessman widely seen as the real power-holder in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, is a suspect in the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic.

While the new government makes major strides in foreign policy, it appears to have forgotten the many pledges it made in 2016 about key domestic reforms.

The State Attorney’s Office in Split said it will investigate a former brigade commander from the wartime Republic of Serbian Krajina statelet for not preventing his subordinates from beating, raping and killing Croatian prisoners.

Kosovo police special forces on Friday morning arrested three people allegedly connected to the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, and another for obstructing police officers.

Moldova’s largest and liveliest city, Chisinau offers an intriguing mix of Soviet-style brutalist architecture interspersed with hidden gems that have managed to survive the centuries.

Although this holiday is mainly celebrated in the United States, the tenets of Thanksgiving transcend borders and bring friends and families together.

Romania on Sunday will inaugurate the tallest Orthodox Church in the world, the People's Salvation Cathedral, amid controversy over the use of public funds for the gigantic project.

Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity plans to massively reduce grants for Catholic and Muslim charities – while increasing funds for organisations whose agendas suit the authorities.

Several police and protesters were injured in Tirana on Thursday after protesters seeking compensation for houses due for demolition to make way for a highway clashed with police near parliament.

A joint Bellingcat-Insider investigation has identified the real name of second Russian military intelligence officer involved in the Montenegro coup case as Vladimir Moiseev.