
Red nostalgia: Souvenirs from the ruins of communism
Countries like Romania, Serbia, and Bosnia upkeep socialist spaces, with the aim of turning them into ‘Instagrammable’ spots where people can experience the regimes of the past

Countries like Romania, Serbia, and Bosnia upkeep socialist spaces, with the aim of turning them into ‘Instagrammable’ spots where people can experience the regimes of the past

A former military intelligence analyst and the ex-mayor of the Balkan country’s capital are placing their trust in the Italian justice system’s investigation

A writer has alleged that Italian gun-loving extremists traveled to Bosnia to spend their weekends as snipers

Chinese firms are beginning to push aside Western companies in the production of materials for the energy transition

Victims of the worst civilian massacre in Europe since World War II recall the inaction of the international community and lament that, now that war has returned to the continent, the world has failed to learn from the tragedy

‘Calculating Empires’, the award-winning work by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, is a fascinating map that explores the interconnections between control and technological advances, showing how they have been leveraged as tools of domination

The Croatian government plans to enlist men for two months and the Serbian government for 75 days. Authorities in both countries plan to start recruiting in 2025

David Knezevich was the prime suspect in the disappearance of the US citizen last February while the couple were involved in a multimillion-dollar divorce
The shooting in the Helsinki metropolitan area, perpetrated by a 12-year-old boy, puts school violence back at the center of the political debate in the Nordic country

The project would be at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 and would feature a high-rise hotel, a luxury apartment complex, office spaces and shops

The memberships of six nations from the region have been stalled for years. But after Russia’s war on Ukraine, EU officials are more keen on trying to lure them away from the Kremlin’s influence

Police are still searching for Ana María Knezevich, a wealthy 40-year-old who was separating from her Serbian husband. She went missing in the Spanish capital after sending two strange text messages to friends

His impassioned plea comes as Russian troops have seized the initiative on the battlefield in Ukraine amid worsening shortages of weapons and soldiers for Ukraine’s military

The United States will impose the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The European Union’s sanctions will target companies and Russian officials and businessmen

Civil unions may become more common among Orthodox countries gravitating toward the European Union. They remain off the table in Russia and countries in its orbit

The government of Kosovo, a former Serbian province, banned banks and other financial institutions in the Serb-populated areas from using the dinar in local transactions, starting Feb. 1, and imposed the euro

The Serbian army has maintained close ties to Russia, from which it purchases most of its arms, including fighter jets and tanks

The reduction in working hours is also concentrated among young people, who are spending more time on their studies, an IMF study has indicated. The richer the country, the fewer hours people work

The Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik’s government plans to hold a celebration of a controversial national holiday that Bosnia’s top court has declared unlawful

Representatives of international rights watchdogs said the vote was ‘marred by harsh rhetoric, bias in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources’

The vote on Sunday pits Vucic’s governing Serbian Progressive Party against a pro-Western opposition coalition which is trying to undermine the firm grip on power the populists have maintained since 2012

The results of past genetic analyzes have frequently been used to defend nationalist political positions

The public in Bosnia and in the wider region was brutally shaken into reality in August, when a woman in the town of Gradacac was shot in the head by her former partner, in a live video on Instagram
Around 13 of the EU’s 27 member countries have reintroduced internal border checks with their neighbors in recent months, a deviation from the normal border-free travel enjoyed in the Schengen zone

The two-day session will include the first foreign minister-level meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, a body created to help prepare Kyiv for eventual membership

Russia’s war in Ukraine has spurred the EU to open up its doors to new members, perhaps as soon as 2030

Ursula von der Leyen met with top Montenegrin officials hours after parliament confirmed the new government following a heated session that lasted through the night