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Demaci spent 28 years in various prisons in former Yugoslavia for his passionate advocacy of Kosovo Albanian rights, later becoming a symbol of the national independence struggle – despite which he remained a sworn opponent of the politics of revenge and national hatred.

Country's top court rules that convention against violence against women would be anti-constitutional, making its adoption by parliament almost impossible.

Kosovo high state officials and citizens paid homage to lifelong political activist Adem Demaci, nicknamed ‘Kosovo’s Mandela’, after he passed away in Pristina on Thursday aged 82.

Moldova's ruling Democratic Party delayed the next parliamentary elections, scheduled for autumn 2018, to early 2019 – after rushing through a package of highly controversial laws.

Montenegro has come up with another plan to offer citizenship to foreigners ready to invest in the country, as part of a move to reverse the recent drop in FDI.

Advocacy groups and law experts say it is disturbing that far-right MPs in Serbia suffer no consequences for hate speech and other inflammatory actions – even when they break the law.

Moldova's pro-Russian President, Igor Dodon, says he would sooner be suspended – again – than permit the US embassy to have a bigger site than the Russian embassy in Chisinau.

Romania’s Justice Minister on Friday rejected all the candidates for the post of chief prosecutor of the country’s anti-corruption agency, saying none of them met the requirements.

For better or worse, much of the news from the Balkans is still focused on NATO, whether it be US President Donald Trump’s latest gaffes on Montenegro or the geopolitical implications and tussles over Macedonia’s impending accession to the alliance. 

Donald Niebyl, a biologist from the US, created the Spomenik Database to tell the stories behind Yugoslav World War II memorials - but locals were sometimes bemused by his enthusiasm for these long-neglected monuments.

Ilan Shor’s run for parliament could effectively keep him out of jail as the convicted mastermind of a $1 billion theft that almost bankrupted Moldova.

While Kosovo’s President calls for a consensus on the political dialogue with Serbia, the technical delegation's chief has again insisted that Serbia must implement all outstanding agreements if it wants to continue talks.

The sterlet sturgeon of the Danube outlived the dinosaurs, but can the ancient species survive Serbian appetites and the illegal fishing trade that serves them?

A Belgrade court has refused to rehabilitate Serbia’s Nazi-backed leader – but his memory remains deeply divisive in a country where some still insist he did nothing wrong.

The Appellate Chamber of Bosnia's State Court confirmed the first-instance verdict acquitting Brane Planojevic of committing war crimes against civilians at Rasadnik camp in Rogatica in 1993 and 1994.

The dominant position of Russian-language media has left Moldova the most vulnerable country in Eastern Europe to Kremlin propaganda, a new study claims.

Bosnia's State Court has acquitted three former Bosnian Serb soldiers – charged with the murder of Bosniaks in Kozarac in June 1992 – for lack of evidence.

Romanian activists and politicians demanded Agriculture Minister Petre Daea's resignation on Thursday, after he compared killing and burning sick pigs to the Nazi-run Auschwitz concentration camp. 

After parliament finally appointed a new electoral commission, Macedonia is starting initial preparations for the autumn referendum on its historic 'name' deal with Greece.

The Belgrade Higher Court has dismissed the request of Milan Nedic's family to rehabilitate the leader of Serbia’s Nazi-backed World War II puppet government.