The Interior Ministry is seeking to prosecute Mabel Matiz over his latest song, which it says is obscene and undermines public morality.

Pro-Russian parties dismiss reported dismantling of network allegedly trained in Serbia to subvert Sunday's election as a well-timed stunt. Moldovan police during the raid. Screen grab from a video ...

Politicians have joined figures from the arts and acting world in paying tribute to Enver Petrovci, who has passed away at the age of 71. Enver Petrovci in 2021. Photo: BIRN Enver Petrovci, one of ...

An amended indictment has been filed against charging Transport Minister Goran Vesic and 12 others over the fatal collapse of a concrete canopy at Novi Sad railway station last November. The wreckage ...

John Stewart Duncan told the court the KLA was 'not a hierarchical organisation where people do what they are told' – and real power lay with the operational zone commanders. This post is also ...

BIRN monitoring during August revealed widespread misuse of AI to impersonate citizens and politicians across Southeast Europe, while Albania appointed an AI as a government minister, and Turkey ...

Powered by Microsoft’s language models and scripted by Albania’s National Agency for Information Society, AKSHI, the AI minister is now expected to handle public contracts worth millions, perform ...

NGOs working with survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine say they have benefitted from lessons learned in Bosnia and Herzegovina, reflected in the introduction of reparations even as ...

BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy. It started in 2009; the financial crisis that hit the world a year ...

A bilingual Serbian and Arabic speaker went from translating for migrants and refugees to smuggling them over borders and taking down rivals with the help of police officers on his payroll. This post ...

BIRN exposes the business links between the sons of convicted Serbian war criminal ‘Frenki’ Simatovic and a network of individuals and offshore companies that the US says works for blacklisted arms ...

Most former Yugoslav countries have been supporting Ukraine since the Russian invasion, recalling their own wartime suffering in the 1990s. But Serb officials remain sympathetic to their allies in ...