Balkan News

Former Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry employee Milisav Ikonic was sentenced to nine years in prison for repeatedly raping a woman in the Rogatica area in July 1992.

Large amounts of weapons and drugs have been seized in a major cross-border joint police action coordinated by Europol, designed to counter crime originating from the Western Balkans.

Ivan Medenica, BITEF’s creative director, wants to fight the rise in right-wing populism’ by taking avant-garde theatre to wider audiences.

Bulgarian police on Thursday held two investigative journalists from the independent media outlets Rise Romania and Bivol as they were investigating fraud over EU funds before eventually releasing them. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has postponed a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina until September 21 due to changes in his schedule, officials said.

As the hundredth anniversary of union with Serbia looms, plans by local Serbs to commemorate this event have angered supporters of Montenegrin independence.

Months ahead of the next year's red carpet ceremony, Croatia, Romania, Kosovo and Bosnia have already chosen their own movies for the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Legacy questions about the property of the former Yugoslav People's Army may remain unresolved after Thursday's meeting between representatives of the five agreed successor states.

The pro-Russian political forces in Moldova want to politically exploit the themes regarding the traditional family values.

Sofia airport on Thursday fired one employee and sanctioned several others after a group of 40 Lebanese travellers passed through the airport unchecked - an embarrassing lapse for a country seeking to join the EU's passport-free zone.  

The Bosnian state court has issued an international warrant for the arrest of former military policeman Dragomir Kezunovic, who was convicted of involvement in killing civilians in Bosnia but now lives in Serbia.

President Hashim Thaci has expressed deep disapproval of the government's move to push a draft law expanding the mandate and competences of the Kosovo Security Force, KSF.

Ten former Serb fighters again pleaded not guilty to the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the village of Lovas in 1991 as their long-running trial restarted in Belgrade.

Opposition MPs are continuing to absent themselves from parliament as they conduct roadshows around crime-hit town in the country – but have refused to declare their boycott formally.

Serbian company P.S. Fashion has been criticised for promoting its new collection with images shot at the Kadinjaca memorial complex, which commemorates Partisan fighters killed in World War II.

Kosovo Albanian women lost their place in Islam with the demise of the Ottoman Empire. Now Turkey is helping them take it back.

The head of the Romanian parliament's foreign policy committee has said he will seek the dismissal of the ambassador to the US over his statements about former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. 

Political T-shirts promoting nationalist ideas, glorifying war criminals and celebrating right-wing leaders from World War II are widely available in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A number of Bulgarian, Romanian and Croatian MEPs backed Hungary in the European Parliament motion condemning its perceived breaches of core EU values.

A UN Human Rights Council working group said that four Balkan countries have made little progress in depoliticising the issue of resolving the fate of missing persons from the 1990s wars.