Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week brings some surprises – some good, some less so – while continuing to look back on 20 years of BIRN.

Film screened at BIRN’s Reporting House in Pristina features harrowing testimonies of survivors of the Dubrava prison massacre, in which nearly 120 inmates were shot dead in May 1999.

Student-led protesters calling for snap elections continues to block roads in various towns and cities as they maintained their campaign against a government they accuse of corruption and brutality.

With roots in the war for Croatia’s independence, the staunchly patriotic singer Marko ‘Thompson’ Perkovic has always caused controversy. Now he’s about to play the biggest concert in ...

Already repurposed due to legal challenges, Italy’s asylum centres in Albania cost more than originally planned and much more than similar facilities in Italy itself, offering a potential lesson ...

In an interview with BIRN, Mary Lawlor said human rights defenders and critics of the government in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska are being targeted and stigmatised.

Former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is stepping away from his We Continue the Change party amid a brewing corruption scandal.

After missing Friday's deadline, Romania faces action from Brussels unless it comes up with a plan by autumn to cut the budget deficit from 9.3 per cent of GDP to 7 per cent.

Our selection of Premium stories this week takes a look at the region’s slow-burning political crises, smuggling networks, digital surveillance and a whole lot more.

A Belgrade court in has ordered up to 30 days of custody for Krunoslav Fehir, a member of a unit led by former Croatian general Branimir Glavas, on suspicion that he committed wartime crimes.

Unable to bring defendants to court, Kosovo and Serbia are trying more suspects for war crime in their absence. Legal experts question whether justice is being served.

Follow this page for the latest coverage as thousands gather at Srebrenica to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II and mourners pay their respects ...