Corruption, migration, online criminality, violent misogyny and the arms trade: in a turbulent year, BIRN’s team of ...

In an interview with BIRN, chief UN war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz warns that enduring divisions from the 1990s ...

From a diplomat who fought in World War II to a Turkish cleric accused of subverting the state and a Bulgarian rock star who ...

A court in Belgrade found that the parents of a teenager who killed ten people in a school shooting last year failed to ...

Incumbent Zoran Milanovic will face the ruling Croatian Democratic Union party candidate Dragan Primorac in a second-round ...

Prosecutors charged 13 people over the deadly canopy collapse at Novi Sad railway station, including former construction ...

As the country’s biggest ethnic Albanian party, long used to power, was relegated to opposition benches, fears grew that it ...

The Bulgarian government provided a million euros in emergency assistance after around 20,000 households were affected by ...

The year just gone demonstrated Serbia’s continued reluctance to face the crimes of the past, with some officials even trying ...

Montenegrin-born Veljko Bulajic, who died in April 2024, was the greatest directors of the former Yugoslavia, best known for his epic films about World War II. Kozara (1962), the Oscar-nominated ...

As the region says goodbye to 2024, there is holiday spirit in some quarters – and a mood of protest in others. Protesters in ...

Russian shops, cafes and businesses have sprung up across the Serbian capital, creating a ‘home from home’ for Russians who ...