Far-right Serb organisations, some known to flirt with neo-Nazism, have rallied in support of the Kremlin’s vow to ‘denazify’ Ukraine, winning applause from like-minded groups in Russia.
As the International Criminal Court starts to probe allegations that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, legal experts warn that prosecutors face serious obstacles to bringing senior officials to justice.
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.
More than two dozen Serbian women remain trapped in refugee camps in Syria, waiting so far in vain to be repatriated by the Serbian state. Whispered messages via banned mobile phones provide a chilling glimpse of their day-to-day plight.
Despite a European Parliament resolution, a UN call and evidence collected by media and NGOs, Serbia is not probing allegations that Vietnamese workers were exploited at a Chinese-run construction site.
The night before the Day of Republika Srpska was marked in defiance of a Constitutional Court ruling, Bosnian Serb football fan groups celebrated with fireworks and nationalist symbols in what appeared to be synchronised events tolerated by local authorities.
France’s far-right National Rally sent a senior delegation to a banned Bosnian Serb public holiday ceremony, allowing Milorad Dodik to claim support from Europe in his standoff with Sarajevo. The party’s leader, Marine Le Pen, is mounting a strong bid to take the French presidency in April.
State Prosecution filed 15 war crime indictments against 39 persons this year, less than in 2020, including four persons who were previously convicted by the Hague Tribunal and State Court.