Southern Balkans

In his last interview with BIRN in October, Oliver Ivanovic, the Kosovo Serb politician murdered in January, named Milan Radoicic as the key figure and a real power-holder in the Serb-run north of Kosovo. He asked...

Campaigners expressed frustration after Croatia said that three wartime missing persons about whom Serbia’s president recently handed over information had actually been found beforehand. A prominent Croatian missing persons association claimed on Monday that Serbian institutions...

The UN war crimes court will deliver its appeal verdict on Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj on April 11, but he has vowed not to return to The Hague to hear it. The Mechanism for International...

Bulgaria’s minister of tourism, Nikolina Angelkova, says it is time the EU started regulating online accommodation platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com. Over 40 per cent of Bulgarian hotels listed in booking.com are not registered with the Ministry of...

Temenuzhka Petkova said she will quit her ministerial post after a small business whose owners she knows was announced as the buyer of the largest Bulgarian private energy company. Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova submitted her...

The main Bosnian Serb opposition party, the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS,  nominated party leader Vukota Govedarica as its candidate for president of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serbian-dominated entity in elections this autumn. The 41-year-old leader of the Serbian Democratic...

Police said the Montenegrin man who threw a grenade into the US embassy compound in Podgorica and then blew himself up had no criminal record, and that the attack was not terrorism. Montenegrin police said on...

Portraits of Zoran Zaev’s predecessors hang in the corridor that leads to his government office. One common denominator for all of them is that they failed to solve the toughest problem that stands in the way...

The presence of Russian-trained Serbian paramilitaries, officials from South Ossetia, and the infamous “Night Wolves” biker gang at the recent and unconstitutional January 9 commemorations in Banja Luka, the capital of Bosnia’s mainly Serb entity, Republika Srpska, RS, have revealed the startling...

As Macedonia’s President Gjorge Ivanov paid an official visit to Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reminded Macedonia that Ankara expected it to cooperate more in the fight against Erdogan’s foes among supporters of the exiled cleric...