The Bosnian Serb strongman has named his candidate for the November 23 presidential elections in the Serb-led entity, finally acknowledging his court conviction and exclusion from office in August.

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From the BIRN archives: After the death of Kosovo Albanian political leader Ibrahim Rugova in 2006, Marcus Tanner examined how his “raffish, Bohemian” image concealed a canny operator with a keen ...

Without a new model of financial sustainability, the journalistic profession – a cornerstone of democracy – risks disappearing, warns the president of the European Federation of Journalists ahead of ...

Decision to merely fine three members of the Telegram group Albkings for the repeated harassment of a BIRN journalist condemned as 'an extraordinarily lenient sentence that fails to meet legal or ...

Politicians have joined figures from the arts and acting world in paying tribute to Enver Petrovci, who has passed away at the age of 71. Enver Petrovci in 2021. Photo: BIRN Enver Petrovci, one of ...

John Stewart Duncan told the court the KLA was 'not a hierarchical organisation where people do what they are told' – and real power lay with the operational zone commanders. This post is also ...

Some 86 percent of Europeans say heritage matters. Yet the reality on the ground presents a more complicated picture. From lotteries to preserve historic sites, to crowds flocking to European Heritage ...

The start to the new parliamentary session was overshadowed by more allegations of sexual abuse and systemic cover-up at Hungary’s state care facilities. The scandal risks undermining Fidesz’s ‘family ...

In Moldova’s upcoming election, Moscow is backing figures who pay lip service to EU integration but whose records speak otherwise. On September 28, Moldovans head to the polls in a parliamentary ...

After six years on the run, wanted oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc arrived back in Moldova, to face a trial over a massive fraud case dubbed the 'theft of the century'. Police escort Vladimir Plahotniuc ...

As the Bosnian Serb strongman unwillingly navigates his political exit, he still has cards to play – about who will succeed him as party boss and as president of the Republika Srpska entity.