In an interview with BIRN, Mary Lawlor said human rights defenders and critics of the government in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska are being targeted and stigmatised.

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Iranian women take part during a protest against Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, 13 June 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH. Balkan countries voiced dismay over the implications of ...

Montenegro’s parliament on Thursday approved a request to send a non-combat military contingent in support of Ukraine as part of an EU mission.

Police have arrested 18 people following an attack on a prominent pro-government student in Belgrade who was pelted with water bottles at a university campus – which President Vucic called a ...

The city of Niksic. Photo: Wikipedia/Janusz Recław. The suspected remains of three members of the Klapuh family – killed in 1992 after fleeing the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – were exhumed ...

Twenty years ago, a union launched an uphill battle to take over their failing machine-tool factory and return it to the workers. Today, they savour the fruits of that victory.

Zenel Drangu, Chairman of the Association of Former Political Prisoners in Shkodra, who was jailed in Spac from 1973 to 1989, also believes the current works fail to respect the historical truth.

Elsewhere, Fidesz withdraws Kremlin-style ‘censorship’ bill – for now; bizarre bitcoin scandal shakes Czech government months from election; and Slovak president backs rise in NATO spending.

On March 12, employees of Ukrainian House (Ukrainski Dom), the main NGO representing Ukrainians in Poland, received a bizarre email. The municipality of Bydgoszcz, in northern Poland, was writing ...