4. March 2022.
Appeals for volunteers from Bosnia and Serbia to join pro-Russian forces in Ukraine are getting a strong response on social media – but how many are actually going is less clear.
Nermina Kuloglija-Zolj
2. February 2022.
‘Day of Honour’, held in memory of Nazi garrison in besieged Budapest at end of World War II, is prohibited this year – with police citing extremism and fears for public order.
27. January 2022.
Having focused before on the threat of Islamic extremism, experts say Bosnia must now address right-wing dangers. But it faces resistance.
19. January 2022.
Historian Gideon Greif, who headed a Bosnian Serb government-funded commission that published a report on Srebrenica denying that genocide was committed, said he will issue a clarification confirming that 8,000 people were killed in massacres in July 1995.
4. January 2022.
Milenko Zivanovic, a former general and commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, was charged with directing armed units that attacked Bosniak civilians in the Srebrenica and Zepa areas in 1995.
16. December 2021.
Russian government-backed foundations have been holding events to promote reports denying the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, as Moscow seeks to exploit divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and increase its influence among the country’s Serbs.
13. December 2021.
The Russian Imperial Movement, a far-right group designated a terrorist organisation by the US and Canada, claimed that it held a demonstration in support of war criminal Ratko Mladic outside Bosnia and Herzegovina’s embassy in Moscow.
3. December 2021.
The far-right is creating a ‘them against us’ narrative in the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to pick up followers and spread hate. And Balkan states are not immune, according to the findings of a BIRN investigation.
5. November 2021.
A court ruled that former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac, who was accused of raping a Serb woman in Zvornik during the war in 1992, must be retried.
15. October 2021.
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is threatening to escalate his efforts to cut ties between the Republika Srpska and the rest of Bosnia. But how far are his threats and claims based in fact?
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.