Balkan News

As the row over the war veterans' list rumbles on, Kosovo citizens took to the streets on Wednesday to demand the dismissal the Chief Prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi – alleging that he had undermined the investigation into the issue.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has extended the provisional release in Serbia for Jovica Stanisic – charged with committing crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia – until January 2019.

Opposition parties in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity are calling for a special assembly session, devoted to the unexplained death of a 21-year-old man – accusing the entity’s authorities of covering up a murder.

The trial began on Wednesday in Skopje of 30 people – including the former interior minister and five MPs – accused of participating in the violent storming of the country's parliament in 2017.

Milorad Zajic, a former Serbian policeman, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to war crimes charges at the Basic Court in Peje/Pec.

The leader of Romania's ruling Social Democrats, Liviu Dragnea, claimed that he dodged an alleged assassination attempt organised by ‘foreign forces’ back in 2017, although prosecutors say there was no investigation into such a case.

Serbia's Culture Ministry has angered LGBT activists by ordering the removal of an art work showing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in a sexual position from the country's Cultural Centre in Paris.

Belgrade-born but Australia-raised Sofija Stefanovic has delighted readers with her memoir of growing up as ‘the Serbian girl’ in Australia – and as the ‘Aussie kid’ in Serbia.

A government decision to give Moldovans three days off work around the time of an opposition protest has been greeted with suspicion.  

Migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrated the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on August 21, alongside local believers. 

Twenty-five years ago, an NGO began giving bereaved and traumatised Bosnian women a helping hand. Tens of thousands have benefited.

Well-known Serbian filmmaker and musician Emir Kusturica announced he will visit Crimea despite Western and Ukrainian threats of sanctions against him.

The fate of two Radio Pristina journalists is still not known, two decades since they disappeared.

Shandong Linglong plans to start construction in April 2019 in the latest big-money Chinese investment in the Balkans.

Serbia has recorded one of the highest rates of measles in Europe in the first six months of 2018, with 14 fatalities, the World Health Organization announced on Tuesday.

Bulgarian MPs are set to meet for an extraordinary session to discuss the collapse of the country’s Company Register and the insolvency of the fourth largest insurer, just as the government steps up its bid to join the euro.

Moldova’s government says it plans to wait for a new gas interconnection with Europe rather than extend a deal with Russia’s energy giant beyond 2019.

Foreign Minister Dacic's statement in Turkey – that Serbia will not shelter enemies of the Turkish government – has alarmed human rights lawyers in the country who fear it means more 'politicised' deportations.

Officials in Prizren have ordered the staff of an alleged 'Gulenist' kindergarten to vacate the building – while insisting that the reason is contract violations, not politics or Turkish pressure.

Poor relations between Russia and Moldova have not stopped all Russians from holidaying in Moldova, statistics show – even though far more Russians now prefer destinations like Turkey or Thailand.