27. June 2022.
An extreme nationalist organisation from Turkey set up a Bosnian branch whose leader helped President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime target opponents from the so-called Gulenist movement for extradition, BIRN has found.
Sarajevo
2. June 2022.
BIRN has awarded grants to 13 journalists, historians, artists and activists for projects exploring the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and domestic courts in ex-Yugoslav countries that dealt with war crimes cases.
18. May 2022.
Young people growing up in the multi-ethnic Brcko District in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina say that although they cannot remember the 1992-95 war, its bitter divisions still cast a shadow over their lives.
10. May 2022.
Anti-feminism and misogyny are common threads linking far-right individuals and organisations. They are also tools of recruitment.
22. March 2022.
An investigative journalist faces prison after he revealed an Islamist youth NGO’s secretive ties to the government and President Erdogan’s family.
21. December 2021.
BIRN has identified 135 Chinese-linked projects in the Balkans worth more than 32 billion euros. Few have come without controversy.
27. October 2021.
Sarajevo will install a memorial to the mostly Serb victims killed in 1992 and 1993 at Kazani in the hills above the city on the orders of a Bosniak commander of a Bosnian Army brigade, but without naming the perpetrators.
18. October 2021.
Victims of revenge porn in the Balkans face an uphill fight against legislative gaps, institutional prejudice, widespread victim-blaming and unethical media coverage. No wonder so few seek justice.
1. September 2021.
The movers and shakers of the video game industry in the Balkans say they are helping to bridge ethnic divides. But what about players in the neon-lit gaming lounges of Belgrade, Pristina and Sarajevo?
19. May 2021.
Bosko Brkic, a Bosnian Serb, and his Bosniak girlfriend, Admira Ismic, became symbols of the Bosnian war when they were shot dead in Sarajevo on May 19, 1993 - and 28 years on, no one has been convicted of killing them.
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