4."I'm Croatian/Bosnian. Every time I hear a Balkan-sounding name, I get a little hope. Then I find out it's some mafia dude or someone. "In video games, they're criminals with annoying cousins ...

In May 1999, as NATO was bombing Yugoslavia to force the Serbian regime to end its campaign of violence in Kosovo, prominent ethnic Albanian dissident academic Ukshin Hoti was released from jail ...

A one-year prison sentence and a six-year ban on holding public office might seem like a heavy penalty for a politician. But the Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik made light of the verdict at the ...

BIRN, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, was established in 2004 as a network of non-governmental organisations promoting freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern ...