Balkan News

From ‘No one has the right to beat you’ to ‘If we cannot solve it, who will?’, Serbian leaders have altered their tune over Kosovo with the passage of decades.

Moldova's pro-Russian president and local human rights groups are arguing over Thursday's detention of a number of Turkish nationals, allegedly linked to the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Plovdiv will celebrate its transformation and host over 300 events during its time as Europe’s 2019 Capital of Culture alongside Matera in Italy.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced Bosnian Serbs Momir Tasic to 14 years in prison and Petar Tasic to ten years for crimes committed in the town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia in 1992 – while it acquitted Mirko Tasic.

Possibly with Ukraine, Macedonia and even Montenegro in mind, the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch has written to the global head of Orthodoxy, saying new countries should not necessarily have their own independent churches.

Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader on Thursday named a new chief prosecutor to head the National Anti-Corruption Directorate – after the previous chief, Laura Codruta Kovesi, was sacked in July. 

Bosnian photographer Milomir Kovacevic's disturbing photographs of the former Yugoslav communist-era prison camp on Goli otok have gone on show in Sibenik as a part of an alternative festival in the Croatian town.

Moldovan and Turkish intelligence services on Thursday detained six Turkish nationals working for a private chain of high schools in Moldova that is linked to exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen. 

Sir Ivor Roberts says an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo based on territorial exchanges is better than no agreement at all.

Media polarization both reflects and exacerbates the country’s political and ethnic divides.

A Croatian computer survival game called SCUM has recorded exceptional success only days after it was released – becoming the best-selling game on Steam, the most popular PC gaming platform.

A final agreement should be based on devolving power to Serb-majority municipalities – not on territorial swaps that will only create further regional instability.

A group of Romanian archaeologists say they have unearthed a previously unknown road and building at the site of the ancient Dacian capital, destroyed during the Roman Conquest. 

Politicians from Kosovo and southern Serbia told a BIRN Kosovo roundtable discussion on Wednesday that border correction was a dangerous idea that would play into Serbia's hands.

Bosnia's state prosecution has filed an indictment against Slobodan Curcic, now residing in Montenegro, charging him with crimes against Bosniaks in the Foca area during the 1992-5 war in Bosnia.

Pressing their demands for bigger benefits, former Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council troops blocked the main street in Sarajevo and scuffled with the police.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT has agreed to remove three judges from the appellate procedure in the case of the former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic.

As Moldovan authorities struggle to contain an ongoing outbreak of measles, the head of the country's Orthodox Church has told clergy to offer special prayers for an end to the epidemic.

German officials and members of Romania's small ethnic German community have protested strongly after several ruling Social Democrat officials called the country's ethnic German president 'a Nazi'.

If Serbia and Kosovo manage to solve their decade-long dispute, the five EU countries that did not recognise Kosovo may have to adjust their foreign policies fast.