Balkan News

Investigators from Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute who search for the remains of war victims have suffered injuries and contracted physical and mental illnesses while conducting exhumations in contaminated and dangerous terrains.

Media associations say that the proposed dismissal of public broadcaster RTCG’s director and editorial team show a clear intent to influence the independence of the public broadcaster.

MPs will vote on plans for the Bulgarian Army to spend 1.6 billion euros over the next decade on buying armoured vehicles and a new type of fighter jet to update the country's ageing military hardware.

Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is appealing against his recent two-year jail sentence but is also awaiting court rulings in four more ongoing cases against him.

Albania’s Central Bank is making a rare intervention in the market to purchase euros after the national currency, the lek, hit an unexpected ten-year high against the European currency.

Because police did not appeal, nationalist singer Marko Perkovic Thompson was acquitted of inciting hatred by using a fascist slogan – also used by a 1990s paramilitary unit – in his popular wartime song.

As US President Donald Trump’s selective blocks on Twitter users are legally challenged, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic continues to bar critics following him on the social network.

Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb, was found guilty of committing fraud by dodging tax and pocketing millions from star players’ transfers.

The Foreign Ministry warned Macedonian citizens to avoid places in Greece where mass protests are expected on Wednesday in support of the “Greek character of Macedonia”.

Disgruntled car owners in the Balkans are taking to social media to vent their anger and organise protests as the rising price of crude is felt at the fuel pumps.

The UK failed to tell Bosnia of its suspicions about a consignment of bullets bound for Saudi Arabia, which has a habit of diverting arms to proxies in Syria and Yemen.

A Serbian cultural association will install a statue of the former Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, who vetoed a 2015 UN draft resolution that condemned the Srebrenica massacre as genocide.

Stories of resistance to Croatia’s fascist Ustasa can help counter revisionists’ attempts to rehabilitate the World War II regime and whitewash the truth about its concentration camp at Jasenovac and its role in the Holocaust.

Trump’s America must work with the EU in the Balkans, or risk stoking renewed nationalism and instability

Macedonia’s economy has shown its first signs of recovery after the prolonged political crisis that ended last year, according to figures from the Central Bank and State Statistical Office.

Brian Scott, a former CIA operative turned security executive, told a Montenegrin court that his company never did business with the pro-Russian Democratic Front opposition party to assist the alleged coup plot.

Former Territorial Defence commander Omer Boric is accused of being responsible for crimes against humanity against Serb civilians in the Konjic area during wartime, including killings, torture and unlawful detentions.

Environmentalists in Macedonia are warning of irreparable damage from a government plan to pipe natural gas through the Vodno mountain that towers over the capital.

Two senior officials of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ who are seen as leaders of a conservative faction within the party, Davor Ivo Stier and Miro Kovac, have been removed from their positions.

Relatives, friends and neighbours of Selmir Masetovic, arrested in Turkey because of alleged links to the Gulenist movement, took to the streets of his hometown Gradacac to call for his release.