Island of Castaways: Traumatic Histories Wash Ashore on Gokceada
The paths of a street-vendor from Kandahar, an elderly couple from Bulgaria, and a Greek tech worker and a tattooist converge on an Aegean holiday island with a troubled past.…
Week in Review: High Ambitions and Missed Opportunities
Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at future goals as well as lost opportunities from the past. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Week in Review: Endless Elections and Pyrrhic Victories
Instead of being an arena for resolving political disputes, elections across the region increasingly seem to be producing more problems than they resolve, as our selection of Premium stories this…
Why a Croatian-Serbian Wedding Comedy Is Raising Laughs Across Balkans
Croatian film director Igor Seregi says his film about a culture clash between two families is a hit because Croats and Serbs can see the funny side to their well-known…
Middle East Crisis: Balkan Countries Act to Ease Spike in Oil Prices
As oil and gas prices surge amid the Iran war, Balkan countries are pondering ways to reduce the impact on households and businesses. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Transnistria Feels the Heat as Moldova Pushes Harder for Reintegration
Moldova is tightening screws on breakaway Transnistria – now struggling with an energy crisis – but success in ousting Russian ‘peacekeepers’ from the region will depend in part on the…
How Kosovo’s War Shaped One Woman’s Girlhood – and Worldview
‘Girlhood at War’ by Vjosa Musliu is an account of coming of age during the 1998-99 Kosovo war – and how that has shaped her ideas about racial discrimination and…
End of an Era: Last Coal Mine in Czech Republic Closes
In Stonava, miners emerge from the pit one last time as the sun sets on the Czech Republic’s 250-year coal era – a victim of shifting markets and Europe’s green…
Week in Review: Commitment, Stasis and the Epstein Effect
An unfolding scandal of global proportions combines with eventful developments in the region in our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Cattle Wagon-Turned-Museum Chronicles Kosovo Albanians’ Deportations
BIRN’s second Reporting House museum in Pristina tells the stories of Kosovo Albanians who found refuge in North Macedonia after Serbian forces deported them on trains in 1999. KAYNAK: Balkan…