Wednesday, 2 april 2025.
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...
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...
Serbian Far-Rightists Prepare Protests Against EuroPride
Right-wing groups urge people to prepare for protests this Saturday, saying they fear the EuroPride march may still take place – despite Tuesday’s police ban.
Handbook on Balkan Right-Wing Groups’ Insignia Published
Far-right symbols are often used in the Western Balkans, but many experts can’t distinguish them because they use a coded language, the author of a new handbook explains, hoping it...
North Macedonia Far-Right Finds Voice via Podcast
Far-right groups in North Macedonia are embracing podcasts as a new means of spreading the word.
How Right-Wingers Thwarted a War Crime Commemoration in Bosnia
Two small but vocal groups of right-wing Bosnian Serb nationalists exerted pressure that is believed to have caused the authorities in the city of Prijedor to ban this year’s White...
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...
Leader of Pro-Russian Group in Brcko Commuted Prison Sentence for Fine
The Basic Court in Brcko told BIRN it allowed Srdjan Letic, leader of the Sveti Georgije Loncari organization, a man with multiple convictions, to commute his prison sentence for a...
Extreme Entitlement: Misogyny, Anti-Feminism in Far-Right Recruitment
Anti-feminism and misogyny are common threads linking far-right individuals and organisations. They are also tools of recruitment.
Far-Right Groups a Lingering Cyber Threat to North Macedonia
From homegrown nationalists to the ‘Powerful Greek Army’, North Macedonia’s state institutions face a range of cyber threats from the extreme right.