Thousands of Bulgarians on Wednesday called for reforms and voiced frustration with political corruption – especially targeting the MRF – New Beginning leader and sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski.

The suspects are among 33 people accused of involvement in shipping a cargo of dangerous industrial waste from Albania to Thailand. The ship Moliva, carrying suspected hazardous waste, docked at Porto ...

Serbian historian and anti-war activist Dubravka Stojanovic compares student protests against Slobodan Milosevic in 1996 with the anti-government demonstrations of today. This post is also available ...

IIB is pushing to have sanctions lifted so it can ‘fulfil its obligations to investors and creditors’, yet few believe they will get any money back. Hungary has frozen €19 million of the development ...

Sarajevo cameraman Sulejman Mulaomerovic recalls filming the killing of a 16-year-old Albanian girl in Kosovo in 1990 and the ripple-effects that followed. This post is also available in this language ...

Keen to show loyalty to the US president, some Balkan states signed up to Donald Trump’s contentious ‘Board of Peace’. Others, meanwhile, are looking to the US for new business partnerships instead of ...

Moscow would like its partner Aleksandar Vucic’s administration to remain in place – but as events in Venezuela and Syria have shown, its response to unwelcome upheavals is usually pragmatic. Donald ...

Opposition party activist Miodrag Malic was sentenced to three years in prison for hailing convicted war criminals at a political rally, but can appeal. This post is also available in this language: ...

New changes to the Albanian criminal code that only partially abolish defamation as an offence have been criticised by media freedom organisations, citing concerns over freedom of speech. Albanian ...

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Ron Haviv photographed all the former Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, from Slovenia to Kosovo, capturing the devastating impact of the conflicts on ordinary people. This post is also available in this ...

As the 30th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo is commemorated, a new book showcases posters from the 1992-95 Bosnian war, explaining how graphic design was used for resistance, ...