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. The decision by the National ...

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BIRN's monitoring of digital rights violations in August and September highlighted a threatening Hungarian ‘dark web’ site that contained illegally obtained images of women, plus a series of arrests ...

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 ...

President Vucic condemned the attack on the pro-government tent camp near parliament in central Belgrade as 'terrible terrorist act' and claimed it was linked to the ongoing protests against his ...

The European People’s Party has already begun scrutinising the membership of Vucic’s SNS party in the EPP family following the worsening situation in Serbia, but there is still no timeline for the ...

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 ...

In response to a long hunger strike in front of the tomb by the father of a Tempi train crash victim, parliament approved a law assigning the monument's care to the Defence Ministry – and limiting ...

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 ...

An anti-Turkish demonstration in the capital Podgorica has unsettled members of the country’s Turkish community – and has caused concern in Ankara. Montenegro is to end its visa-free regime for ...

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 ...

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.