New legislation drafted by US lawmakers in the Senate aims to bolster economic development in the Western Balkans through a range of infrastructure, trade and anti-corruption initiatives. These include the... read more →
Pro-government media in Albania has published a series of allegations regarding the comeback of former president Ilir Meta, labelling him as a Communist-era secret police collaborator. The allegations were published... read more →
UN’s special advisor on the prevention of genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, has warned that genocide denial in Bosnia is a barrier to reconciliation in the country. Speaking at the Srebrenica... read more →
Serbia has extradited Ivica Husnik, convicted of being involved in the killings of 200 people at Ovcara Farm near Vukovar in November 1991, to Croatia to serve his sentence for... read more →
Online misinformation has become the new normal in Balkan internet communities, according to a new report by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). In Serbia and Hungary, a spike in... read more →
Albania’s parliament elected a top military official as the new president on Saturday, after no candidates were nominated in three rounds of voting. Gen Maj. Bajram Begaj, a top military... read more →
The recently published US State Department’s 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom warns that the number of violent incidents targeting religious sites in Kosovo increased by 50 percent compared to... read more →
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 →
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 →
