This week's cut-off of Russian gas supplies could create a humanitarian crisis in the breakaway Transnistria region, sparking ...

Greek police confirmed that electronic dance music DJ Mikaela, a cousin of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, has been ...

Bulgaria will probably hold its eighth election in four years. But will this calm the political turbulence, or will rising ...

Montenegro is holding three days of mourning after a gunman killed 12 people, including two children, in the city of Cetinje ...

Millions of Syrians have spent years as refugees in Turkey, rebuilding their lives after fleeing their homes. Now, with ...

Are you concerned for your children’s safety online? Worried that they might take part in dangerous TikTok challenges, or be ...

Julie Brill grew up in the US, never knowing what had happened to her father’s Serbian family in World War II. Her new book chronicles a voyage of discovery.

As the tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina goes, instead of fireworks, the country welcomes the new year with another ...

Many expect the ruling Socialist Party to win this year’s parliamentary elections again, and are placing their hopes in ...

As the country’s biggest ethnic Albanian party, long used to power, was relegated to opposition benches, fears grew that it ...

Corruption, migration, online criminality, violent misogyny and the arms trade: in a turbulent year, BIRN’s team of ...

In an interview with BIRN, chief UN war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz warns that enduring divisions from the 1990s ...