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Disruptors: Inside Russia’s Balkan Training Camps for Moldovan ‘Destabilisation’
A joint investigation by BIRN’s Bosnia and Hercegovina outlet Detektor and Moldovan CU SENS sheds new light on the training camps run by Russian operatives in Bosnia and Serbia that...
UNA’s Undoing: The Rise and Fall of Bosnia’s ‘Dodik TV’
Those involved say UNA TV was founded in 2021 on a commitment to professional, independent journalism, but was this ever likely given the involvement of the son of Bosnian Serb...
‘Here to Help’: US-Inspired Anti-Abortion Groups Put Down Roots in Bosnia
Taking money and inspiration from the United States, anti-abortion groups are growing in influence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes with public funding too.
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...
Justice Denied: How Warden of Infamous Bosnian Croat Camp Escaped Prosecution
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour...
Putin’s Messenger: Russia’s Rybar to Open Media ‘School’ in Bosnia’s Serb Entity
Revelations that a government agency in Republika Srpska has agreed to open a ‘media school’ with an EU-sanctioned Russian propaganda tool shows Moscow is upping its information warfare in the...
From Bosnia to Ukraine: How a Serb Sportsman Became a Russian Fighter
A Bosnian Serb former martial arts fighter has been posting videos and pictures online, documenting his new life as a volunteer soldier with a Russian unit fighting in Ukraine. BIRN...
How A Convicted Head Of Slovak Counter-Intelligence Ended Up In Bosnia’s Mostar
Peter Gasparovic, who was sentenced in Slovakia for corruption, fled to Mostar while on parole and has sought asylum there, becoming the third senior Slovak security official to have taken...
‘Dream Jobs’ Become Nightmares for Bosnians Lured by Hungarian’s Online Pyramid Scam
Bosnians who believed promises of quick payouts for little work got their wallets emptied in eMagnetix’s pyramid scheme. Investigative reporters from Detektor, in collaboration with Raskrinkavanje, infiltrated the scheme and...