Southern Balkans

From the peaks of Montenegro and Macedonia to the mountains of Bosnia and Romania and the underrated Sharr Mountains in Kosovo, the Balkans offer many alternatives to Europe’s costly and better-known Alpine ski reports. Some of...

Macedonia’s parliament has passed all four constitutional amendments to allow the country’s name to be changed – as required under the historic agreement with Greece. Macedonia’s parliament backed all four of the government-proposed amendments on changing...

Russia’s President is to bestow the Alexander Nevsky award on Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, putting him in the company of a number of world leaders not known for their democratic principles. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has...

Aga, a young Kosovo Albanian boy with a missing father, lives in a house with five women, all of them victims of sexual or domestic violence. He manages to save the life of one of them,...

Serbia has drawn criticism for sentencing three Albanians who wrote the Kosovo Liberation Army’s initials on snow-covered cars to 55 days in prison. Human rights activists have criticised as excessive the 55-day sentences handed down to...

Fata restlessly twists her fingers, as if she were suffering some great embarrassment. She can hear footsteps in the corridor so she stops speaking and waits until it becomes quiet again outside. Eighteen years have passed...

Viti 2019 do të jetë vit i hapjes së kufirit Kosovë-Shqipëri, por edhe vit i arritjes së marrëveshjes ndërmjet Kosovës dhe Serbisë. Me këtë fjali të publikuar në rrjetin  e tij social, Presidenti i Kosovës, Hashim...

BIRN Team BIRN A lone man sit on a bench while looking at Victoria Palace (the government headquarters, in the background) that is video-mapped with the projection of EU (R) and Romanian (L) flags, as well as...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would be wise to listen to the demands of protesters who have taken to the streets of the Serbian capital three weeks in a row, angry at his rule, opposition leader and...

Kosovo’s state healthcare workers are ending the year with a two-day country-wide strike, demanding higher salaries. Public health institutions in Kosovo started a strike on Wednesday, demanding a pay rise. The strike is continuing on Thursday....