Friday, 15 august 2025.
How persuading Russia to lift BiH trade veto might hike fuel prices
Bosnia-Herzegovina looks set to impose fuel import controls which Russia insists on before it will let the country join the World Trade Organization, Detektor has learnt. Fuel prices may rise...
Ukraine Wants Him Sanctioned – But Boss of Putin-linked Gas Project Opened Firm in Sarajevo
The Ukrainian government wants sanctions placed on Igor Chasnyk, a board member for a major Russian gas firm until recently owned by an oligarch friend of President Vladimir Putin, but...
Bosnia’s Genocide Denial Law: Why Prosecutors Haven’t Charged Anyone
BIRN has obtained documents showing why Bosnian prosecutors haven’t filed a single indictment a year and a half after a legal ban on denying the Srebrenica genocide and glorifying war...
Batons and Blood: The Bosnian Music School That Became a Brutal Jail
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names...
Music Mobilisation: The Concerts Connecting Neo-Nazis in Croatia
In closed messaging groups and through small-scale concerts, the Croatian branch of Blood and Honour is networking with other neo-Nazis in Europe.
War Games: Replaying Yugoslavia’s Military Conflicts as Entertainment
Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity...
Hague Archives Reveal Suspects in Bosnian Croat Prison Camp Crimes
Almost three decades after the last prisoners left the notorious Dretelj detention camp, several Bosnian Croat military policemen and security officers named in a Hague Tribunal verdict who could be...
In Bosnia’s Prijedor, Party in Power Spawns Right-Wing War Crimes Deniers
In the Bosnian town of Prijedor, site of some of the worst Bosnian Serb crimes of the 1992-95 war, members of a party in power helped create a right-wing organisation...
How Turkey’s Extremist ‘Grey Wolves’ Built a Cell in Bosnia
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...