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 ...

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 ...

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

As a new school year begins in North Macedonia, Vesna Janevska says deep-seated problems in the country’s education system will take years to sort out. The shortage of free-of-charge textbooks at the ...

A school history textbook for teenage pupils in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity continues to ignore the crimes of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic despite a court ruling in Sarajevo demanding it be ...

Tough new bill introducing fines and prison terms for illegal migrants draws condemnation from opposition parties and human rights organisations. Refugees and migrants walk towards the port authority ...

Europe must wake up to the threat of an emerging cocaine hub in West Africa, built by Western Balkan crime gangs. At first glance, the developing ports of West Africa and the criminal underworld of ...

Three more people have been arrested in Moldova on suspicion of involvement in plotting to cause unrest in the country after allegedly being trained at Russian-run camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Drakulic has spent her life challenging patriarchy, nationalism and power structures across various regimes – and at 76, she is still taking aim at the failings of the elite. “I have no social ...

Dr Tomas Palenicek, who works at the Czech National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ) as well as the Psyon psychedelic clinic, where patients are currently treated with ketamine – which as an ...

The vast number of variables contained in the Italy-Albania protocol – a dense legal document outlining everything from hazard pay for Italian police stationed abroad to the cost of transferring ...

Slovak civil society organisations have spent decades filling gaps left by the state. Now the state is coming for them. For years, the League for Mental Health stood among Slovakia’s most trusted ...