In 2019, RFE/RL's Balkan Service marked 25 years of reporting in one of the world’s most contested regions, championing professionalism and moderation in a media landscape that is sharply divided along ethnic and partisan lines.
The leader of Kosovo's leftist-nationalist Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party said parliamentary elections on February 14 were a referendum that handed his party a chance for a new start.
Voters in Kosovo headed to the polls on February 14 to elect a new parliament. Among early voters in the capital, Pristina, were incumbent Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and two of his predecessors, Ramush Haradinaj and Albin Kurti.
Serbia has donated 4,680 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to neighboring North Macedonia, which has struggled to secure any vaccine supplies for its population of 2.1 million.
Kosovars have voted in early parliamentary elections that the leftist-nationalist Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party is expected to win, further complicating efforts to resolve the country's decades-long dispute with neighboring Serbia.
Faced with their fifth election since independence 13 years ago, Kosovars appear eager to take up where they left off in getting their tiny Balkan homeland onto a more stable political footing.
Dozens of migrant children live without their parents in rough camps, abandoned factories, and houses they find on their way through Bosnia-Herzegovina. RFE/RL's Balkan Service spoke to Afghan boys in the northwest of the country who hope to find their way to a better life in the European Union.
The European Union says Bosnia-Herzegovina has the continent's deadliest pollution. The district of Bukinje is so badly affected by a local coal-fired power station that its mayor says nobody wants to live there.
A Montenegrin court has scrapped the guilty verdicts handed down in relation to a plot to overthrow the government in 2016.
Serbian authorities say they have arrested 17 people in a crackdown on a crime syndicate linked to hooligans who support a Belgrade soccer club.
Kosovo and Israel have formally established diplomatic relations under a U.S.-brokered agreement that includes a pledge by the Muslim-majority Balkan country to open an embassy in Jerusalem.
A protest by Chinese workers at Serbia's Cukaru Peki copper and gold mines has raised questions about the living and working conditions at the site. Three workers who asked for their identities to be protected corresponded with RFE/RL's Balkan Service about their life in eastern Serbia.
Actress Milena Radulovic has gone public with rape allegations against a longtime fixture on the Belgrade cinematic scene, prompting a deluge of support and tough questions about Serbian society.
Kosovar election authorities have not verified the party lists of three parties in the upcoming parliamentary elections on February 14, potentially dashing former Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s bid of taking up the post again.
A former Bosnian Army commander has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on January 22 for failing to stop killings and torture carried out by Islamist volunteer fighters who joined his troops during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war.
North Macedonia’s lawmakers have passed a bill that could pave the way for the Balkan country to hold this spring its first census in almost 20 years.
Albania says it is expelling a Russian diplomat for allegedly violating lockdown rules aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus in the Adriatic country.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has joined a growing chorus of calls demanding that Bosnia-Herzegovina immediately provides “adequate, winterized” accommodation for hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers stranded in freezing temperatures in the country's northwest.
Montenegro's parliament has approved changes to a controversial law on religion that has dominated politics in the Balkan country for more than a year.
Dozens of international migrants in Bosnia-Herzegovina have taken to bathing in natural thermal spring waters to keep clean. They say the water at the spring in the town of Ilidza, near Sarajevo, is warmer than in the nearby Blazuj camp where they have been living.
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