The Bosnian Serb strongman has named his candidate for the November 23 presidential elections in the Serb-led entity, finally acknowledging his court conviction and exclusion from office in August.

Some 86 percent of Europeans say heritage matters. Yet the reality on the ground presents a more complicated picture. From lotteries to preserve historic sites, to crowds flocking to European Heritage ...

Long-awaited US sanctions on the company should go ahead on Wednesday, after the US Ministry of Finance postponed their imposition for just four more days. Gazprom gas station in Belgrade. Photo: BIRN ...

Without a new model of financial sustainability, the journalistic profession – a cornerstone of democracy – risks disappearing. Over more than 30 years as a journalist, I have gone through almost ...

Powered by Microsoft’s language models and scripted by Albania’s National Agency for Information Society, AKSHI, the AI minister is now expected to handle public contracts worth millions, perform ...

Erion Veliaj’s dismissal as Tirana mayor appears to have terminated the career of a man once seen as a possible successor to Edi Rama. More than seven months after his arrest, Erion Veliaj was ...

John Stewart Duncan told the court the KLA was 'not a hierarchical organisation where people do what they are told' – and real power lay with the operational zone commanders. This post is also ...

Pro-Russian parties dismiss reported dismantling of network allegedly trained in Serbia to subvert Sunday's election as a well-timed stunt. Moldovan police during the raid. Screen grab from a video ...

A Dutch photographer looks past the stereotypes to portray life in Transnistria as hard – but also full of human warmth. In 2018, Paul Van der Stap started to visit Transnistria, a narrow strip of ...

Albania’s government has bestowed ‘strategic investor’ status to an Italian hotelier who wants to build a tourist resort in a nature reserve in southern Albania, on land rich in cultural heritage and ...

The Interior Ministry is seeking to prosecute Mabel Matiz over his latest song, which it says is obscene and undermines public morality.

The incursion of drones into Poland and Romania’s airspace appeared to mark a shift in Russia’s campaign - and posed urgent questions about how EU and NATO members states should respond. Between 2023 ...