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.

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 ...

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 ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Hundreds of ethnic Albanians from across Europe and the US staged a protest against the Kosovo war crimes court, as lawyers for former President Hashim Thaci and his three co-defendants prepare to ...

BIRN exposes the business links between the sons of convicted Serbian war criminal ‘Frenki’ Simatovic and a network of individuals and offshore companies that the US says works for blacklisted arms ...

The Belgrade officials and policemen who took hundreds of murdered Albanians’ corpses from Kosovo to Serbia and concealed them in mass graves have never been prosecuted in their home country. This ...

A poll shows that as many as 81 per cent of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia -"during the time of socialism". The survey focused on the respondents’ views on the transition ...

Former communist countries in Southeast Europe face catastrophic depopulation, with far-reaching social and political consequences. Young people are leaving. Fertility rates have collapsed. Societies ...

A church service in Shkoder in November 2016 to celebrate the beatification of 38 Catholics who were executed by Albania’s former communist regime. Photo: EPA/STR. How Albania Became the World’s First ...

Three decades later, and with war raging in neighbouring Ukraine, it’s worth remembering the sparks that ignited the conflict over Transnistria. Thirty years ago, in March 1992, people on both sides ...