Balkan News

Around 1,000 people gathered on Wednesday night in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka for a protest in solidarity with the leader of the ongoing ‘Justice for David’ rallies, Davor Dragicevic, after he was released from police custody.

Four international media freedom organisations sent an open letter to Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, demanding that he withdraw law proposals they believe will 'chillingly' affect online media.

Police in Bosnia's mainly Serb entity on Wednesday released the father of the young man whose murder has caused turmoil in the entity – and who has vowed to continue his campaign for justice.

Russian propaganda, misinformation and cyber attacks target not only ordinary Romanians but their leaders too, warns a senior Romanian general.

On the eve of the fourth in a series of protests in Belgrade, organised by a group of citizens but backed by opposition, we are trying to evaluate what we’ve learned so far.

On Christmas Day, a small group of Romanians gathered at the grave of former Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to mark the 29th anniversary of his death by firing squad.

The downplaying of crimes committed by Croatia’s World War II fascist regime and the public rehabilitation of convicted criminals from the 1990s war continued to cause alarm in 2018.

Bosnian Serb police moved to shut down months of protests over the death of a 21-year-old man whose parents say he was murdered and have accused police of a cover-up.

Dozens of people charged with involvement in a mob attack on the Macedonian parliament in April last year have submitted pleas to be amnestied under a controversial new law, a judge said on Tuesday.

Through nine months of daily protests, Davor Dragicevic has become a thorn in the side of the Bosnian Serb authorities, whom he accuses of lying about his son’s death.

Bosnian Serb police arrested Davor Dragicevic days after he was charged with endangering security over a protest outside parliament in mid-December.

The Hilandar monastery on Mt Athos is home to invaluable medieval Serbian art and historical objects, and a spiritual experience visitors will never forget.

Macedonia needs to set aside the search for ‘achievements’ and focus on debate, discussion and democracy that will bring the people together, not divide them.

As former senior Kosovo Liberation Army figures were asked to give interviews to prosecutors, Kosovo ended 2018 with the first signs that the Hague-based Specialist Chambers is getting ready to indict people for wartime and post-war crimes.

For the Balkans, 2018 was a turbulent year full of ups and downs. Still, it was salvaged by a heroic few.

A former Bosnian Serb soldier was found guilty of crimes against humanity in a Bosniak area of eastern Bosnia in 1992 and 1993.

The acquittal of Bosniak wartime Srebrenica commander Naser Oric and the indictment of former Bosnian Army general Atif Dudakovic caused both celebration and condemnation in ethnically-divided Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The changes imposed by the Central Election Commission on the Federation entity legislature represents a fundamental assault on the rule of law in Bosnia

Currently beholden to Russia and its proxy, Transnistria, for most of its power, the new gas pipeline to the Romanian border offers Moldova a possible exit from its energy conundrum.

The man behind the huge critical success of the MoMA show on Yugoslav Modernist Architecture is delighted by the new appreciation being shown for what he considers masterpieces in concrete.