2. August 2021.
There is growing concern that escalating online hate speech in Montenegro could turn into offline violence.
Investigation
22. July 2021.
Many women have told BIRN about violence, verbal abuse and negligence during childbirth in Central and Eastern Europe. But very few felt able to seek justice.
16. July 2021.
Taking advantage of slack rules, professors from Serbia are teaching in Bosnia’s Serb-led entity as well – even if they have already met their work quotas at Serbian faculties, or lack a licence to teach abroad, BIRN can reveal.
3. June 2021.
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.
2. June 2021.
BIRN lifts the lid on the Bosnian Movement of National Pride, a secretive organisation promoting neo-Nazi Bosniak nationalism.
5. April 2021.
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.
23. March 2021.
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.
9. March 2021.
A BIRN research of the working conditions facing journalists in the Balkans since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic makes for grim reading.
16. February 2021.
A BIRN investigation reveals serious holes in content policing by Facebook and Twitter in the Balkans.
5. February 2021.
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.
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