Balkan News

A mural monument honouring former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic, which has been installed at the entrance to his hometown Kalinovik, was criticised for glorifying the war crimes defendant.

Serbian right-wingers have expressed grief and dismay over the killing of Ukraine's Russian-backed separatist leader, Alexander Zakharchenko, on August 31.

The Russian-backed separatist region marked its 28th birthday on a Sunday with a parade, thanks to Russia for its support – and a renewed pledge to seek international recognition.

As human rights activists demand an end to weapons sales to Saudi Arabia after a Saudi-led coalition’s deadly air strike on Yemen, new pictures show Serbian weapons being used in the Yemeni conflict on both sides.

Bosnia's new State Energy Strategy wrongly relies on an increase in thermal power – despite its poor cost efficiency and negative impact on the environment – and its funding model is unclear, an energy expert warns.

In the run-up to general elections in Bosnia in October, the dream of a third Croat entity is coming back into the spotlight – with the support of some politicians from Croatia.

After Bulgaria funnelled 90 million euros from the EU into restoration projects that critics have slated, conservationists dread the results of the next spending spree – and the expected tourist boom has yet to materialise.

Thousands rallied in Moldova's capital Chisinau in favour of reunification with Romania, while a planned pro-Russian protest on the same square was cancelled.

The Serbian government has chosen the Chinese Zijin Mining Group as its strategic partner for the failing copper mining and smelting complex, RTB Bor.

Civil society and opposition MPs are calling for mass protests in Kosovo against potential border changes, ahead of the September 7 meeting in Brussels of the Kosovo and Serbia presidents.

More than 50 organisations and experts on the Balkans have signed an open letter urging Europe and the US not to agree to any territorial swaps between Kosovo and Serbia.

The Bosnian state court found former policeman Kahro Vejzovic not guilty of torturing Serb civilian detainees in the village of Stupari in the Kladanj area in 1992.

Former soldier Rade Garic was charged with persecuting Bosniaks by committing murders, torture, rape and other crimes in the Vlasenica and Srebrenica areas in 1992 and 1995.

A museum in Transnistria, dedicated to its short war for independence in 1992, shows how Soviet-style propaganda still holds the breakaway region in its grip.

Three Bulgarian ministers stepped down on Friday, after Prime Minister Boyko Borissov requested their resignations following the deaths of 17 people died in an accident on a mountain road.

As the plot thickens when it comes to the possibility of a land swap between Kosovo and Serbia, we look at the hurdles and obstacles to any such deal while also exploring other pressing issues troubling the region.

Moldovan authorities have said they will permit both Pro-Russian and pro-Romanian protesters to rally simultaneously in the capital, Chisinau, on Saturday.

The annual summer clean-up of Bulgaria's mountain tops, organised by the environmental organization Friends of the Earth – Bulgaria, attracts dozens of nature lovers who want to keep these precious sites pristine.

A museum in Zadar is on the backfoot after it was found using an insulting term for Albanians in an old exhibition – which it said was because the exhibition dated back to the 1970s, when it did not have the same meaning.

Croatia’s shipbuilding industry was once a world leader but is now on its last legs, an expert tells BIRN – adding that wars, mismanaged privatisations and a general lack of direction have added to its woes.