Thousands of Bulgarians on Wednesday called for reforms and voiced frustration with political corruption – especially targeting the MRF – New Beginning leader and sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski.

The suspects are among 33 people accused of involvement in shipping a cargo of dangerous industrial waste from Albania to Thailand. The ship Moliva, carrying suspected hazardous waste, docked at Porto ...

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 ...

The coalition’s last-minute changes have done little to calm concerns that the approved law – which dismisses the watchdog’s leadership – remains incompatible with EU rules and is primarily a form of ...

A Pristina court for a second time found Muhamet Alidemaj, a former Serbian policeman, guilty of war crimes in the village of Izbice, where 130 men were shot dead in March 1999.

A BIRN investigation finds evidence that systemic flaws in Romanian military procurement mean many local units are awarding big contracts to questionable companies, potentially compromising national ...

Opulent villas, island retreats, hunting lodges and yachts: Josip Broz Tito’s many properties were scattered across the republics of the former Yugoslavia - although some have fallen into disrepair ...

On the 20th anniversary of the death of Kosovo’s first president, friends and former colleagues recall the quiet booklover who became a symbol of a free and democratic Kosovo. This post is also ...

Sarajevo cameraman Sulejman Mulaomerovic recalls filming the killing of a 16-year-old Albanian girl in Kosovo in 1990 and the ripple-effects that followed. This post is also available in this language ...

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 respected author tells BIRN that his latest book – on World War II in Croatia – rejects the thesis that communism and fascism deserve equal condemnation. Ivo Goldstein, one of Croatia’s most ...

Keen to show loyalty to the US president, some Balkan states signed up to Donald Trump’s contentious ‘Board of Peace’. Others, meanwhile, are looking to the US for new business partnerships instead of ...