A police report seen by BIRN shows that 197 reports of crimes and 186 civil complaints were left unprocessed over more than a decade by the police station in Peje/Pec in western Kosovo. Peje/Pec ...

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 ...

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. A Ukrainian Nova Post van at the site ...

Milorad Dodik may have formally stepped down as Republika Srpska's president after being legally barred from office – but he still hopes to carry on pulling the strings. Only around a quarter of the ...

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 ...

The courtroom killing of a judge in Tirana has prompted calls from Albanian judges and prosecutors for authorities to get serious about their ‘almost non-existent’ security.

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 ...

Ruling centre-right VMRO DPMNE party hails landslide victory over its rivals in Sunday’s local elections, coming first in 53 of the country’s 81 municipalities. Ahead of Sunday’s municipal elections ...

Experts link removal of US sanctions imposed on four Bosnian Serb officials to Milorad Dodik’s exit from the Republika Srpska presidency. Decision to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize comes ...

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 ...

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future. Illustration: Sanja ...