BIRN has identified Andreas Maul, a town councillor for Germany’s far-right AfD party, as the man behind a Serbian company sanctioned by the US for aiding a Russian alleged cybercrime...

North Korean hackers are stealing identities to land freelance work with Western companies, and some of the victims are in the Balkans.

BIRN lifts the lid on the online ads bringing to the Balkans illicit opioids more potent than fentanyl, sourced in China, ‘100% double vacuumed sealed’ and delivered by FedEx and...

A court in Chinsinau convicted three Moldovan citizens of participating in Russian-led training camps in Bosnia and Serbia in 2024 in order to incite unrest and disrupt elections at home.

In a corner of Bosnia, a Serb mercenary who fought for Russia in Ukraine has been bringing live pictures of Russian drone attacks to his followers on TikTok even as...

A representative of Russian media outlet Rybar, which was sanctioned by the UK for spreading propaganda and trying to sway elections, was in Banja Luka for November’s Republika Srpska presidential...

Novak Stjepanovic was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Serbia for war crimes in Bosnia in 1992, but he had already skipped the country to join Russian forces fighting...

A US arms firm explored importing 122,000 tons of Chinese TNT into Bosnia via a local arms producer it part owns. The deal never went ahead, but the amount on...