15. October 2024.
Paul Lowe, a respected British photojournalist who covered major world events including the wars in the former Yugoslavia and worked for years in the Bosnian capital, has died at the age of 61.
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13. September 2024.
Most survivors of sexual abuse during the Kosovo war still suffer severe psychological consequences as a result of their ordeal, a new report by two NGOs, Medica Mondiale and Medica Gjakova, concludes.
19. June 2024.
With Russia’s intelligence network decimated since its invasion of Ukraine, signs from Poland point to an army of ‘useful idiots’ hired locally to carry out espionage, sabotage and arson.
30. January 2024.
The start of the retrial of four wartime Serb fighters for their role in the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993 was postponed – another delay in the long-running legal process.
30. January 2024.
A relative of young Montenegrin theatre director Hana Rastoder was among 20 people abducted from a train by Bosnian Serb fighters in 1993 and then murdered. Now she’s written a play about it to help her country face its violent past.
9. November 2023.
Thirty years after the Ottoman-era Old Bridge in the Bosnian city of Mostar was brought down by artillery fire, a soldier who captured its collapse on video looks back on the destruction and reconstruction of this symbol of a divided city.
9. August 2023.
Almost half of Albania’s judges and prosecutors have fallen foul of a much-hailed vetting process, but among its Balkan peers, scrutiny of asset declarations leaves much to be desired.
13. February 2023.
At the start of his trial in Belgrade for the killing of 51 non-Serbs in 1992, former reservist policeman Milorad Kotur explained how prisoners were taken from the Omarska detention camp and then shot dead.
9. February 2023.
In a retrial for wartime rape of a Bosniak woman who was held prisoner at a school in Kalinovik in south-eastern Bosnia, in 1992, a Belgrade court sentenced Dalibor Krstovic to nine years’ prison.
31. January 2023.
Slovenian media reports say two citizens of South American nationality have been arrested and charged with spying for Russia.
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