Thursday, 3 april 2025.
Episode 144: Online profiteers of hate flourish in Bosnia and Serbia
This month we’ll be talking about how retail outlets in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia profit from spreading hate and get away with selling clothes that glorify war criminals and...
BIRN Launches Interactive Map of Far-Right and Extremist Groups
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has published an interactive map providing detailed information about scores of far-right and extremist organisations in six countries in the Balkans.
BIRN BiH Journalist Shortlisted for Thomson Foundation Award
An investigation into the US far-rightist Robert Rundo and his organization by Nermina Kuloglija-Zolj of BIRN BiH has been shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation’s Young Journalist Award.
In Bosnia’s Prijedor, Party in Power Spawns Right-Wing War Crimes Deniers
In the Bosnian town of Prijedor, site of some of the worst Bosnian Serb crimes of the 1992-95 war, members of a party in power helped create a right-wing organisation...
Handbook on Balkan Right-Wing Groups’ Insignia Published
Far-right symbols are often used in the Western Balkans, but many experts can’t distinguish them because they use a coded language, the author of a new handbook explains, hoping it...
Bosnian Entity Road Company Ignores Sanctions, Promotes Gazprom Petrol Stations
Although the European Union has placed the Russian oil company under sanctions, Motorways of the Federation, a public company, is running a campaign encouraging driver to fill their vehicles at...
How Right-Wingers Thwarted a War Crime Commemoration in Bosnia
Two small but vocal groups of right-wing Bosnian Serb nationalists exerted pressure that is believed to have caused the authorities in the city of Prijedor to ban this year’s White...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Military Policeman Pleads Not Guilty to Massacre
Former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Nikola Koprivica denied he was there when 44 Bosniaks were killed in the village of Novoseoci, near Sokolac, during the war in 1992.
Bosnians Mark 30th Anniversary of Wartime Persecution in Prijedor
After police refused to permit a march to mark White Ribbon Day, the anniversary of the start of ethnic persecution in the Prijedor area in 1992, people gathered in a...