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Justice Department says Slobodan Letic should lose his US citizenship for concealing his involvement in war crimes in Brcko in 1992.
When Denisa Kasa returned from abroad and saw the state of Albania’s filthy waterways, she was shocked. Now she has formed an independent collective of young people dedicated to the ‘dream of ...
In 2020, hundreds of thousands of people in Belarus took to the streets to protest against Aleksandr Lukashenko stealing the presidential election. Belarusian doctor Yauhen Zhuk, who is today ...
In Kosovo, image-based sexual abuse, sometimes known as ‘revenge porn’, feeds on stigma and an intense fear of exposure, meaning victims suffer largely alone.
After Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said he and his party were targeted by the security services while they were in opposition, organised crime prosecutors said they were investigating the ...
Did the police ask you to hand over your phone, camera, laptop or any other device during the ongoing protests in Serbia? Have you noticed any changes in your devices after that?
Despite continued controversy in Europe over the use of cracked Sky ECC and EncroChat messages as evidence, a Sarajevo man has become the first to be convicted of drug smuggling by a Bosnian court ...
Employers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are up in arms over a big hike in the minimum wage without accompanying tax changes, prompting warnings of job losses.
Poland, Czechia and Slovakia are working on imposing digital services taxes on big tech as a means to support local tech firms and media and raise revenue.
Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to ...
BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy.
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 ...