Many expect the ruling Socialist Party to win this year’s parliamentary elections again, and are placing their hopes in ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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