Balkan News

Upcoming elections for the Bosniak national minority council, whose chief can paint himself as the ‘president of Serbia’s Bosniaks’, have been dominated by personality politics, sparking tensions in the country’s Sandzak region.

Yet again, the region’s news is filled with stories of political and diplomatic manoeuvres and machinations – domestic or international – all of which have the air of well-rehearsed cat and mouse games. 

The president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, said that he will propose his party colleague Radovan Viskovic to form a new government.

Serbia's president criticised the Montenegrin authorities for stopping four Serbian public figures entering the country to attend a controversial event commemorating the unification of the two countries in 1918.

A Macedonian court has temporarily frozen 69 real-estate assets owned by the main opposition VMRO DPMNE party, including its lavish HQ in Skopje, as part of a major money-laundering investigation.

At a meeting with Moldova's pro-Russian President Igor Dodon, who was seeking his backing before elections, Vladimir Putin overestimated the amount of Moldovan exports to Russia.

Dwindling print advertising, scandal-mongering headlines and hidden ownership are tarnishing popular trust in the country's leading political newspapers, says a new market analysis of Bulgarian media.

The Albanian Foreign Ministry summoned the Greek ambassador for a second time in three days, demanding clear condemnation of anti-Albanian incidents in Greece sparked by the shooting of a Greek-Albanian.

After years of silence, hundreds of Croatian women have been speaking publicly about the traumatic experiences they suffered during childbirth in the country’s hospitals, putting obstetric violence on the political agenda.

A slew of resignations by prominent party officials who disagree with their leadership’s anti-Western path have rocked Macedonia’s opposition right-wing VMRO DPMNE.

Activists warned that Serbia is adopting its first legislation to protect critical infrastructure such as power, water, telecommunications and healthcare facilities without any public discussion or proper explanation.

Ineligible candidates for Bulgarian citizenship paid thousands of euros to illegally acquire ‘heritage certificates’ in a corrupt scam run by a state agency, prosecutors said.

Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of British heavy metal heroes Iron Maiden, will be bestowed the title of honorary citizen of Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo. 

Patriarch Kirill gave Moldova's pro-Russian President Igor Dodon an honour for his support for his country's Orthodox Church, which remains loyal to Moscow.

As the prosecutor at the Hague-based Specialist Chambers visited Kosovo for the first time, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said there is a sense of scepticism about the new court that will try suspects for wartime crimes.

Over 2,000 people marched through the Romanian capital on Tuesday night to commemorate the third anniversary of a fire that killed 64 and wounded 147 at a rock concert in Bucharest in 2015.

When activists protested against an event organised by the ruling party promoting a convicted war criminal, we were fined - showing again how Serbian officials still reject the truth about the 1990s conflicts.

Famed and feared for elaborate Vlach death rituals, Serbia’s east is also home to Roman palaces, historical vineyards, medieval monasteries and more.

Belgrade and Moscow authorities have not revealed specific details of an amended agreement which will enable Serbia to re-export some of the Russian gas being pumped into the country.

Some Croatian parents are worried about the creeping influence of the Catholic Church in schools.