The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

Media organisations say Albanian police action, surrounding the News 24 TV station building and seizing journalists' computers amid a property dispute with a government ministry, is 'heavy-handed ...

Fans throughout former Yugoslavia are mourning the passing of one of the most recognisable names of the Yugoslav music scene – whose singing career began in the 1950s.

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Court hands deputy head of the Serbian government’s office for Kosovo a six-month jail term and a two-year ban on entering Kosovo for speech 'inciting ethnic hatred'.

Constitutional Court extends deadline to inaugurate parliament, but also says parties cannot keep nominating the same candidate for speaker – as Vetevendosje has done repeatedly.

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After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

With documentaries that examine a world ravaged by war and greed - from Ukraine to Palestine and the aftermath of conflicts in Kosovo and Bosnia - DokuFest sought to offer an antidote to feelings ...

A man has been arrested in Montenegro over the unauthorised installation of a memorial to Pavle Djurisic, a 1940s Chetnik commander accused of masterminding massacres.

Romania’s first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried with full state honours on Thursday – but not all Romanians mourn his passing.