25. February 2022.
Serbian newspapers, which are usually pro-Putin, either reported enthusiastically about Moscow's troops "reaching Kyiv in a day" or called the Russian attack on Ukraine a "response to NATO threats".
BIRN
24. February 2022.
Despite joining European Union restrictions on the Russian mercenary group, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania have yet to investigate Wagner Group ties in their countries.
24. February 2022.
Authorities are mulling Ukrainian 'Right Sector' member Rizvan Babayev's request for political asylum, after he was detained on a Russian-issued international arrest warrant.
11. February 2022.
The minimum age requirement to open a TikTok account has done nothing to stop thousands of children in the Balkans under the age of 13 from accessing the short-form video app. A BIRN survey finds parents and teachers struggling to stay on top of the risks involved.
10. February 2022.
The mayor of the Montenegrin town of Pljevlja, Igor Golubovic, resigned amid a controversy over his alleged opposition to removing graffiti celebrating Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic in his hometown.
4. February 2022.
A man who left his home behind in Hrtkovci in Serbia in 1992 after Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj stirred up anti-Croat fervour in the village is now trying to win compensation.
2. February 2022.
Cooperating with international agencies such as Europol is crucial if North Macedonia and the rest of the Western Balkans are to win the fight against terrorism and extremism.
28. January 2022.
The Kosovo Judicial Council has suspended a judge in Kacanik after BIRN filmed him illegally negotiating with the parties outside court.
12. January 2022.
The deputy leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army Veterans’ Organisation, Nasim Haradinaj, told his trial in The Hague that there were no new revelations in leaked documents from war crimes cases that caused the charges against him.
10. January 2022.
Based on the Pandora Papers leaks, Albanian prosecutors are to probe 3.6 million euros that the company that built the electricity interconnection line to Kosovo paid to a small UAE-baed consultancy from 2013 to 2019.
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