Balkan News

Moves to recognize the Ukrainian Church’s independence from Moscow could effectively split the Orthodox world into rival pro-Russian and pro-Western blocs.

Brussels says it suspects Moldova does not want to punish those behind an audacious $1 billion bank heist. Experts say that, for the ruling party, politics come first.

A regional forum on innovation, entrepreneurship and technology aims to boost chances for Bosnians starting their own businesses, but bureaucratic complexities still create problems for the country’s budding businesspeople.

Croatia’s government wants the Agrokor saga put to bed, but big questions remain over the fate of the biggest private company in the Balkans even after creditors agree to restructure its debt.

The government in Pristina said it has imposed customs tariffs of ten per cent on products from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in retaliation for their negative behaviour towards Kosovo.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic asked the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague to allow him to use an online video link to talk to his family by the end of the year.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Cvijan Tomanic and Sreco Kandic are accused of committing violent crimes against Bosniaks and ethnic Albanians in the village of Glumina, near Zvornik, in 1992.

Controversial legislative changes in Bulgaria aimed at forcing media to reveal all their sources of funding have been criticised amid concerns that they could herald pressure on donors.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that Vienna will not oppose any eventual agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, even if it includes the changing of the borders between the two countries.

Despite having some of the most toxic urban air in the world, Macedonia's courts appear loath to tackle the hazards being posed by the country's big polluters, a survey of court archives reveals.

A witness at the trial against of Serb ex-fighter Darko Tasic said they saw the defendant with a truck carrying dead bodies after a massacre in the Kosovo village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusha in 1999.

Milorad Dodik, the newly-elected Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, urged Serbs living in the US to vote for candidates from Donald Trump's Republican Party in the mid-term elections.

Bosnia is getting technical and financial assistance from Western countries to deal with huge amounts of obsolete weapons and ammunition left in the country after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

As the dust from the recent elections begins to clear, the problem of Bosnia’s partly erased election law has re-emerged as yet another headache for the deeply divided country.

The growing demand for Romanian passports is likely to further complicate already troubled Romania-Ukraine relations, experts say, as Kiev does not allow double citizenship.

The recent death of a Greek nationalist in southern Albania is only part of a wider worldwide phenomenon of violent extremism underpinned by religious ideology.

The unnamed former Serb paramilitary was charged with abusing and torturing a captured Croatian soldier in the town of Vukovar in November 1991.

An exhibition of artworks by women who suffered sexual violence during the war in Kosovo has opened in Pristina in an attempt to address continuing social prejudices against the victims.

Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Kosovo will sign a new plan committing them to working together to help find and identify the remaining missing persons from the 1990s wars, writes Kathryne Bomberger of the International Commission on Missing Persons.

Documents and evidence obtained by BIRN show that Albania’s judicial vetting authority sidelined evidence that links Administrative Appeal Court judge Artur Malaj to accusations of corruption and the murky ownership of an upmarket villa.