From the ‘Mesopotamia’ in Belgrade to a damp hotel near the Hungarian border, BIRN lifts the lid on a lucrative smuggling operation that keeps migrants and refugees moving across the Balkans, lining the pockets of state security agents along the way.
BIRN lifts the lid on the Bosnian Movement of National Pride, a secretive organisation promoting neo-Nazi Bosniak nationalism.
The men of Sveti Georgije say they are simply handing out aid parcels, but their leader’s criminal past, their glorification of Ratko Mladic and a penchant for black uniforms and a coat of arms speak to a very different agenda.
With COVID-19 putting an unprecedented strain on the Albanian health system, some COVID-19 patients and their families are turning to an unregulated and dangerous black market in oxygen, potentially doing more harm to their health than good.
A BIRN research of the working conditions facing journalists in the Balkans since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic makes for grim reading.
A BIRN investigation reveals serious holes in content policing by Facebook and Twitter in the Balkans.
Court records in Bosnia reveal that prominent members of Serb nationalist Chetnik organisations have been charged with war crimes, while the Bosnian Security Ministry has warned that such groups are extremists who could pose a security risk.
Evidence collected by BIRN paints a damning picture of conditions facing Chinese workers in Serbia. Rights experts warn of ‘human trafficking’.
Since fleeing a prison sentence in Montenegro in 2016, Milos Marovic, the son of fugitive Montenegrin former politician Svetozar Marovic, has built up agricultural land holdings in Serbia worth more than a million euros, BIRN can reveal.
BIRN reveals how a campaign to build renewable energy plants, supported by the EU, siphoned away subsidies and wrecked pristine waterways in Serbia and beyond.
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