Balkan News

Bujar Osmani, Macedonia’s vice prime minister in charge of European affairs, said he has nothing to hide after the Special Prosecution in charge of probing high-level crime started to investigate him.

Former Bosnian Serb battalion commander Ostoja Stanisic was sentenced to five years in prison for assisting the commission of genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

Pristina Basic Court sent a controversial indictment charging 12 former members of the government’s commission for verifying former Kosovo guerrillas back to the prosecution for clarification.

Macedonia's Interior Ministry says it is investigating reports that opposition MPs who may want to support the historic deal with Greece in parliament are receiving threats.

For National Coming Out Day, a photo exhibition showcasing same-sex weddings has opened in Croatia's capital, Zagreb – aimed at raising awareness about the LGBTI community.

Romanian Orthodox pilgrims are gathering in the eastern city of Iasi for one of the country’s biggest annual religious processions, dedicated to the relics of a popular saint, St Parascheva of the Balkans. 

Milorad Pupovac told BIRN that a recent incident in which he was pelted with food at a Zagreb market was not an isolated occurrence but part of a growing campaign against the Serb minority.

Serbian authorities said that the bodies of nine Serb victims killed in 1995 during the Croatian war have been exhumed from four localities in Croatia.

The indictment against six Islamic State supporters in Kosovo alleges that planned bombings against Orthodox Churches, an Israeli football team and targets in Belgium or France were backed by militants in Syria.

Police in Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro have taken part in an international operation to crack down on corruption in major Belgian football clubs.

Hundreds of activists marched through Pristina on Wednesday during Kosovo's second-ever Pride Parade. 

Organisations representing people with disabilities have urged Croatia to do more to speed up the process of moving disabled people out of institutions – amid concern that progress in this field is stagnating.

MEPs have adopted a highly critical resolution on Moldova, calling attention to its corruption and blatant disrespect for democratic standards – and urging the EU to cut off financial support.

A vineyard owner in Bosnia and Herzegovina is selling bottles of wine labelled with a picture of Croatian WWII-era fascist Ustasa leader Ante Pavelic.

One worker reportedly died and several others were injured after an explosion in the Russian-owned oil refinery in the northern Bosnian town of Brod, Mayor Ilija Jovicic said on Wednesday.

The 61-year-old’s victory in Bosnia’s presidential election means that the main Bosniak party – and the Izetbegovic family – will maintain their influence on this body for another four years.

The local authorities in the Serbian city of Novi Pazar decided to name a square after the former head of the Mothers of Srebrenica Association, Hatidza Mehmedovic, who died in July.

A 21-year-old called Severin Krassimirov has been detained in Germany and named as the prime suspect for the murder of the TV host Victoria Marinova – whose brutal slaying in Ruse has attracted international condemnation.

A Bujanovac basketball club brings together 150 children from Serb, Albanian and Roma communities across southern Serbia, challenging the argument that they cannot live together.

The discovery of five unlicensed cigarette factories in a single month undercuts claims by the Bulgarian government that it is winning the war on contraband tobacco, experts say.