Why Bosnia Feels Helpless but Not Hopeless
Former diplomat Ian Bancroft explains how his new book explores the dysfunctional state that Bosnia and Herzegovina is in – and its people’s deep desire for a way out. KAYNAK:…
Bosnian Capital Hosts BIRN Exhibition on Media’s Role in 1990s Wars
‘Reporting War’, organised by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in Sarajevo, examines journalists’ role in the Yugoslav wars – and how some nationalist media helped to fuel them. KAYNAK:…
BIRN Launches ‘Diaspora Tales’ Podcast on War, Emigration and Balkan Roots
The five-part ‘Diaspora Tales’ podcast series explores how people displaced by the wars of the 1990s - and their children - remain connected to the region, decades later. KAYNAK: Balkan…
‘You Never Really Leave’: How Three Exiles Gave a Kosovo Village New Life
In the third instalment of BIRN’s series about war-displaced refugees’ continuing links to the Balkans, three former journalists from Kosovo explain how they organised a literature festival to bring people…
BIRN Launches Podcast for ‘Women’s Wars’ Interview Series
BIRN has launched a ten-part podcast of its ‘Women’s Wars’ series, which profiles courageous women activists and journalists who worked for justice and freedom in the Yugoslav wars years. KAYNAK:…
‘That Day, The War Started’: Bosnian Cameraman’s Chilling Footage of Kosovo Killing
Sarajevo cameraman Sulejman Mulaomerovic recalls filming the killing of a 16-year-old Albanian girl in Kosovo in 1990 and the ripple-effects that followed. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Ethnic Albanian Journalist Recalls Threats, Harassment as Yugoslavia Unravelled
As an ethnic Albanian journalist in the 1980s and 1990s, Dijana Toska faced threats, censorship and harassment from authorities in Pristina and her Macedonian hometown Skopje - before, during and…
Serbian Appeals Court ‘Violated Law’ in Editor’s Murder Case
Three years after the Belgrade Court of Appeal acquitted four Serbian security operatives of the murder in 1999 of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija, the Supreme Court said that the verdict…
Serbia in 2025: Wartime History Rewritten or Erased
Historical revisionism was on display at the funeral of convicted war criminal Nebojsa Pavkovic, buried with full military honours - while officials sought to ensure his former Yugoslav Army HQ…
Truth Under Pressure: Montenegrin Reporter Who Defied the Regime’s Narrative
Milka Tadic Mijovic was fired for her critical reporting about Serbian nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic – so she started her own magazine, committed to telling uncomfortable truths about the Yugoslav…