Online anti-Ukraine propaganda, especially targeting Ukrainian President Zelensky, are now commonplace across the Balkans. On 28 April, for example, a video circulated among Hungarian Facebook users showing cocaine on Zelensky’s... read more →
More than 100 schools in Serbia’s capital of Belgrade received bomb threats yesterday. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 97 elementary schools and a number of high schools received... read more →
Despite Serbia advancing in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index, Serbian journalists report facing a persistent culture of framing independent media as a hostile force to the government. In 2021,... read more →
Russian authorities are comparing the invasion of Ukraine to the Srebrenica genocide during the Yugoslav wars as a means of spreading misinformation throughout Bosnia and Hergozovina. In official statements, Russian... read more →
A new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Center criticised the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office of being “extremely inefficient,” voicing concern that more than one half of last year’s... read more →
More than three-quarters of female politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina report experiencing online abuse as a result of their public engagement, a report has found. As public figures, both men... read more →
The Bosnian prosecution charged former Bosnian Serb military policeman Nikola Koprivica, also known as Nidza, with committing a crime against humanity. The Bosnian state prosecution accused Koprivica of participating in... read more →
The Bosnian state prosecution charged former police officer Miodrag Djurkic with carrying out crimes against humanity, including prisoner abuse, in 1992. Djurkic allegedly illegally arrested, detained and abused non-Serb civilians... read more →
A former police officer in southern Albania was found guilty of drug trafficking on Friday, linked to a 2017 case that also implicated the country’s former interior minister Saimir Tahiri.... read more →
A former prime minister of North Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, was sentenced to seven years in jail for stealing money from his own political party and using the funds to purchase... read more →
