10. April 2020.
Issues of conflict of interest have arisen after a company owned by a town councillor in Srebrenik was recently entrusted with construction of a COVID isolation facility in the town.
Investigation
6. April 2020.
Despite strong evidence that emerged in their superiors’ trials, officers who led brigades of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps as it targeted Sarajevo with shells and sniper fire have never been indicted.
22. January 2020.
How Bosnia’s neglect of its wartime displaced foreshadowed its latest humanitarian crisis. Milena Mitrović, Rogatica, Zvornik i Sarajevo On Easter Sunday 2010, Angelina Jolie came to the eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica and performed a miracle. The Hollywood star had been touring the country in her off-screen role as ambassador for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. […]
22. July 2019.
They have friends in high places and a stranglehold over the private security industry.
21. July 2019.
A far-right militant movement in Ukraine is forging ties with like-minded politicians and war veterans in European Union member Croatia, a BIRN investigation reveals. Chain-smoking in a Zagreb cafe, 43-year-old Denis Seler would hardly stand out were it not for the word AZOV emblazoned in Cyrillic on the front of his grey sweater. Seler is […]
19. July 2019.
At youth training camps in Serbia and Russia, teenagers are being taught pro-Russian ‘patriotic’ values and given military instruction by right-wing extremists with links to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
22. May 2019.
Among those gathered at the military cemetery on a hill above the Bosnian town of Visegrad, two Russians stood out. Rubbing shoulders with Bosnian Serb dignitaries, the pair was there to salute the hundreds of Russians who fought alongside Bosnian Serb forces during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Viktor Zaplatin and Aleksandar Kravchenko were both veterans […]
15. March 2019.
Like the original Night Wolves in Russia, a Bosnian Serb branch of the motorcycle gang enjoys close ties to the political elite.
28. December 2017.
Courts in the Balkans usually side with mothers in child custody cases.
17. July 2017.
After dozens of self-proclaimed imams were prosecuted for recruiting fighters for Middle East wars, state-backed religious organisations have joined the online fight for the hearts and minds of Muslims in the Balkans.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.