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 ...

Politicians have joined figures from the arts and acting world in paying tribute to Enver Petrovci, who has passed away at the age of 71. Enver Petrovci in 2021. Photo: BIRN Enver Petrovci, one of ...

Decision to merely fine three members of the Telegram group Albkings for the repeated harassment of a BIRN journalist condemned as 'an extraordinarily lenient sentence that fails to meet legal or ...

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

An amended indictment has been filed against charging Transport Minister Goran Vesic and 12 others over the fatal collapse of a concrete canopy at Novi Sad railway station last November. The wreckage ...

Alexandru Balan's detention in Romania forms part of a wider crackdown on a suspected Belarusian spy network. A riot policeman at the entrance of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and ...

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Tough new bill introducing fines and prison terms for illegal migrants draws condemnation from opposition parties and human rights organisations. Refugees and migrants walk towards the port authority ...

The National Assembly in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska voted in favour of a referendum that is intended to reject a court ban on strongman leader Milorad Dodik holding the entity’s ...

The vast number of variables contained in the Italy-Albania protocol – a dense legal document outlining everything from hazard pay for Italian police stationed abroad to the cost of transferring ...

Slovak civil society organisations have spent decades filling gaps left by the state. Now the state is coming for them. For years, the League for Mental Health stood among Slovakia’s most trusted ...

Police arrested 25 alleged members of a nationalist, far-right youth group in Thessaloniki in northern Greece for robbery and violent crimes. A banner for the Defend Salonica group displayed in ...