Balkan Insight
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BIRN, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, was established in 2004 as a network of non-governmental organizations promoting freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern and Eastern Europe. Follow this blog to get news covering politics, society, and business in Balkan region.
Balkan Insight
2h ago
Chisinau authorities slate secessionist regime's plan to erect another 'peacekeeping post' in the buffer zone between them, calling it a 'useless manoeuvre ..read more
Balkan Insight
2h ago
Ageing former president faces fresh questions over bloody events in 1990, when miners were used to brutally crush protests by students and liberals in Bucharest ..read more
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7h ago
Elsewhere, Polish prosecutors to also investigate Pegasus use; former Czech MP’s rape sentence confirmed; and a black day for Slovak public broadcaster RTVS ..read more
Balkan Insight
7h ago
Serbia’s main opposition coalition has fallen apart because its members could not agree on whether to go to the polls in June – and the risk is that they will now win far fewer votes ..read more
Balkan Insight
18h ago
A string of elections, parliamentary committees and arbitration processes pose tough choices for those entangled as well as opening the question of motives driving developments, yet not all is bleak in the Balkans ..read more
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21h ago
After a marathon legal process, former Kosovo Liberation Army commander and ex-diplomat Sylejman Selimi and another ex-guerrilla were cleared of one of the war crimes charges against them ..read more
Balkan Insight
1d ago
Victims' families, lawyers and the opposition welcomed the sentences pronounced on nine people for a deadly 2018 train accident – but also demanded further investigations into senior officials ..read more
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1d ago
Compared to last year’s survey, worries in Slovakia grew by 3 points, but fell 18 points in Poland. This reflects political changes, such as Fico assuming power in Slovakia and trying to turn public broadcaster into a government mouthpiece ..read more
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Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, the candidate of the right-wing opposition VMRO DPMNE party, soundly beat ruling party-backed incumbent Stevo Pendarovski in the first round of North Macedonia’s presidential elections ..read more
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Up to a hundred Ukrainian citizens, mostly men, were gathered on Wednesday in front of a passport centre in Warsaw, unable to pick up their documents, after Kyiv suspended consular services as part of a drive to increase conscription ..read more