The Central Election Commission has again refused to accredit the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party for parliamentary elections, triggering harsh reactions from Western diplomats. Srpska Lista’s ...

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Novak Stjepanovic was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Serbia for war crimes in Bosnia in 1992, but he had already skipped the country to join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, a BIRN ...

The former Kosovo president’s defence team hopes that supportive statements from high-profile US figures like James Rubin and Wesley Clark will carry serious weight as his war crimes verdict ...

The parliamentary probe based on conspiracy theories about the philanthropist’s alleged meddling is backed by Bulgaria's main pro-Russian and nationalist parties as well as by tycoon Delyan Peevski’s ...

Greek police busted a Pakistani human trafficking group exploiting Nepalese agricultural migrant workers who were allegedly forced into debt, given exhausting tasks, threatened and sometimes ...

Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the ...

A Serbian government plane took convicted war criminal Nebojsa Pavkovic home on Sunday, following his early release from a 22-year prison sentence on health grounds. This post is also available in ...

From the BIRN archives: After the death of nationalist leader Milosevic in 2006 while he was on trial for war crimes, Gordana Igric explained how he was not the only man responsible for the malign ...

Amid discontent over the frequent public display of World War II-era Ustasa symbols and salutes, Croatia's centre-left opposition has called for new penalties - but with exceptions that have sparked ...