Balkan Insight Politics and Society General Feed
Updated: 4 hours 42 min ago
Mon, 11/26/2018 - 11:35
A new film by BIRN Serbia, 'SNS – the start,' follows the origins and rise of Serbia's ruling Progressive Party, SNS – and how it became the most powerful political force in the country.
Mon, 11/26/2018 - 08:56
A student’s attempt to stage a graffiti protest has got caught up in the complex politics surrounding the memorial in Sofia to the Red Army.
Mon, 11/26/2018 - 08:53
The question is not whether the economic ‘bomb’ will explode but whether, as in a Terminator film, countries get blown to pieces or walk away with a few smoke stains.
Mon, 11/26/2018 - 08:52
The head of Macedonia’s Helsinki Committee, Uranija Pirovska, says Nikola Gruevski’s escape and other worrying developments are fast destroying hopes of a return to the rule of law in Macedonia.
Mon, 11/26/2018 - 08:51
Hungary’s bumpy relations with Croatia have improved since Croatian MEPs backed Budapest in a critical Strasbourg vote – but now a fresh dispute threatens to reopen the breach.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 19:55
Businesses and civil society groups have backed the new regime on Serbian imports, saying it is time the market learned to live without Serbian products.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 18:02
A Croatian court sentenced former Yugoslav People’s Army general Borislav Djukic to nine years in prison for trying to blow up the Peruca dam during the war in 1993.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 16:15
The recent increase in customs tax by the Kosovo government exhibits the need for sovereign decisions, but could be a camouflage for political point scoring for politicians who want to mask their failures.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 16:12
Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested a suspect allegedly connected to the attack on US embassy in Sarajevo in 2011.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 14:29
Predrag Lazetic, who was a member of the White Eagles paramilitary group and a Bosnian Serb Army soldier, was charged with mistreating 11 Bosniak prisoners in Gacko in June 1992.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 12:38
Kosovo police sources told BIRN that Milan Radoicic, a businessman widely seen as the real power-holder in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, is a suspect in the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 11:49
While the new government makes major strides in foreign policy, it appears to have forgotten the many pledges it made in 2016 about key domestic reforms.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 11:19
The State Attorney’s Office in Split said it will investigate a former brigade commander from the wartime Republic of Serbian Krajina statelet for not preventing his subordinates from beating, raping and killing Croatian prisoners.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 09:25
Kosovo police special forces on Friday morning arrested three people allegedly connected to the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, and another for obstructing police officers.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 06:49
Moldova’s largest and liveliest city, Chisinau offers an intriguing mix of Soviet-style brutalist architecture interspersed with hidden gems that have managed to survive the centuries.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 06:46
Although this holiday is mainly celebrated in the United States, the tenets of Thanksgiving transcend borders and bring friends and families together.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 06:40
Romania on Sunday will inaugurate the tallest Orthodox Church in the world, the People's Salvation Cathedral, amid controversy over the use of public funds for the gigantic project.
Fri, 11/23/2018 - 06:35
Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity plans to massively reduce grants for Catholic and Muslim charities – while increasing funds for organisations whose agendas suit the authorities.
Thu, 11/22/2018 - 17:37
Several police and protesters were injured in Tirana on Thursday after protesters seeking compensation for houses due for demolition to make way for a highway clashed with police near parliament.
Thu, 11/22/2018 - 17:13
A joint Bellingcat-Insider investigation has identified the real name of second Russian military intelligence officer involved in the Montenegro coup case as Vladimir Moiseev.
Pages