BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina presented a database of children who disappeared during the 1992-95 war as well as a documentary about the parents and relatives who are still looking for them. This post ...

The appointment of Ana Trisic Babic as acting president until November's election follows Milorad Dodik’s removal from office after he was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on ...

The woman, a 30-year-old beautician, spoke to BIRN by phone from her home in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Asking not to be named, the woman said she had taken a job in a tourist resort in Orikum, ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. A police report seen by BIRN shows that 197 reports of crimes and 186 civil ...

Rights groups condemned decision to bury former General Nebojsa Pavkovic, who was convicted of war crimes against Kosovo Albanians, in an area reserved for 'meritorious citizens' – and with military ...

After seeing off the Kremlin threat in the recent elections, the government must press on with reforms aimed at securing EU accession.

Eight people were arrested in Romania and Poland over an alleged plot to send exploding parcels by post to Ukraine, with authorities claiming Russian involvement. Deportations of unsheltered EU ...

Serbian leader voices dismay and Hungary mulls legal action after EU energy ministers voted to phase out all Russian gas imports from 2028.

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...

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 ...

Three decades after the first armed skirmishes in Croatia, a selective interpretation of the war for independence is still hampering inter-ethnic reconciliation and blighting the country’s potential ...

After convictions in major war crimes and genocide trials in The Hague, right-wing nationalists stepped up their efforts to glorify criminals like Ratko Mladic, while top Serbian politicians ...