The Far Right in the Balkans Archives

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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 to play with history, others distort the facts completely.

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 committed to rewriting history, BIRN can reveal.

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.

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 will help people recognize and combat such movements.

Far-right groups in North Macedonia are embracing podcasts as a new means of spreading the word.

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 Armband Day march to commemorate war victims.

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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 found.

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 9,000 euro fine.