Attending a World War II victory parade in Beijing, the Serbian and Slovak leaders used the occasion to curry favour with Russia's authoritarian president.

Motion filed by uneasy alliance of pro-EU and nationalist parties is unlikely to pass – but takes place against a background of growing protests on the streets.

As tensions continue to run high amid ongoing anti-government protests in Serbia, scuffles broke out after the dean of Novi Sad University's Faculty of Philosophy called in police to help overcome ...

As Mediterranean fire seasons grow in intensity, Albania’s government faces calls to invest in firefighting and reforestation.

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 ...

When a Serbian student dared accuse a senior police officer of assault during protests in Belgrade, intimate images of her as a minor surfaced online and in pro-government media.

Milorad Dodik may have been stripped of his post as Republika Srpska president, but he’s still got the car, the protection and a parliament happy to do his bidding.

BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy.

Bulgaria faces huge demographic challenges, but optimists point to recent migration trends as cause for at least cautious optimism.

Paramilitaries led by notorious Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, fought their way through Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo - so why were none of them jailed for his unit's crimes?

Documents obtained by BIRN show that EU Frontex officers deployed to Bulgaria’s border with Turkey are being intimidated into silence in the face of pushbacks and brutality against migrants and ...

Three decades later, and with war raging in neighbouring Ukraine, it’s worth remembering the sparks that ignited the conflict over Transnistria.