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Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region. The March for Palestine in Zagreb on Sunday. Photo: Facebook/H-alter.

Remains believed to belong to three members of a Bosniak family killed in 1992 after they fled to Montenegro to escape the war in Bosnia have been exhumed in the city of Niksic. This post is also ...

Polarising campaign topic The emails surfaced in the middle of Poland’s presidential election campaign. It is no coincidence; since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Pro-government media in Republika Srpska claimed that an American lawyer visiting Bosnia to allegedly investigate misspending by USAID was an envoy of the US administration – except he wasn’t.

Bosnia’s Roma population was not spared the brutality of the 1992-95 war, but due to social prejudice, their suffering has rarely been discussed, let alone documented and investigated.

With Albania’s ruling Socialist Party a whisker away from a three-fifths supermajority in parliament, critics are worried about the ramifications for the country’s fragile democracy. The party ...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic with Milos Pavlovic. Photo: Instagram/buducnostsrbije. Three out of 18 people suspected of involvement in an attack on Milos Pavlovic, the high-profile leader of ...

The rural municipality of Kosjeric, near Serbia’s western border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, consists of a small town, a cluster of villages and roughly 10,000 people. Beyond a local cement ...

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. “I’m not ...

The opposition’s strong showing in two bellwether local polls – against stiff odds – suggest support for the ruling party is crumbling away.

Following an outcry over a series of killings of women, parliament in Bosnia’s Federation entity has changed the law to recognise gender-based murder as a separate crime. The House of ...