Thirty years ago, the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP) brought an end to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a conflict that marked one of the …
Irina Cisic celebrated her first birthday on October 8th, 1993. Just four days later, while she was walking with her mother through the Sarajevo neighborhood of Ciglane,…
The Communications Regulatory Agency (RAK) will investigate ex officio allegations about a report that caused a series of reactions, broadcast on the entity public broad…
Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Davor Ivo Stier, pointed out that 30 years after Dayton, B…
This year saw a final court verdict convicting Bosnian Serb strongman Milorad Dodik, but far from showcasing how strong Bosnia’s institutions have become, it only underl…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the EU is “failing to implement” the expropriation of frozen Russian assets. Commenting on discussions in the EU abo…
Eight years after the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal closed, as the memory of its work fades, new generations know increasingly little about even the worst wartime atrocit…
Mark Rutte said any Ukraine peace deal must not be a re-run of the 2015 agreement, which merely paved the way for Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
The ten-part series profiles women who were inspired to take positive action by the conflicts that erupted as Yugoslavia collapsed in the 1990s.
Three severely injured refugees found in freezing conditions near the Bosnia-Croatia border have had parts of their bodies amputated owing to frostbite.
Prosecutors in Tuzla have opened an investigation into two senior officials of the Tuzla retirement home where a deadly fire in November claimed 17 lives.
Bosnia's state court sentences Dalibor Railic and Aleksandar Mijatovic to 29 and 34 years in prison respectively for the murder of police chief Radenko Basic in 2022 in …
New Croatian law paving the way for a radioactive waste disposal centre near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina draws outrcy from Bosnian officials and environmental…
Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.
Dragomir Bursac went to work in Croatia in 1991 – and vanished in the Yugoslav wars. The discovery of his remains far away in Bosnia allowed for a funeral that brought c…
Experts say Bosnia should follow the example of an oral history project in the US - seeking to draw lessons from the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement and its subsequent imple…
Over the three decades since the Dayton peace deal ended the war, several Bosnian-made films have cast foreign officials in a harsh light – as hapless, cynical or crimin…
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, short prison sentences are often replaced with community service orders, but court delays and administrative holes mean that many are never ex…
The court found that former Bosnian Serb commander Dragomir Milosevic, sentenced to 29 years in jail for terrorising civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, had not prov…
Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week takes a look at military spending, competing superpowers and agricultural altercations.
The Bosnian state court confirmed the acquittal of Borislav Paravac, a post-war Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, clearing him of taking part in wartime att…
In the second of BIRN’s series about women’s wartime activism, Midheta Kaloper explains how she survived sexual violence during the Bosnian war and now helps other survi…
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 …
As the year draws towards its end, our Balkan Insight Premium stories show that there is no shortage of political surprises, unexpected twists and new standoffs across t…
Alen Muhic, one of many children born as a result of rape by soldiers during the Bosnian war, presented his autobiography to a Serbian audience for the first time in Bel…
Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik’s chosen candidate claimed a narrow victory in the Republika Srpska presidential election – but the weak result shows voters …
Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.
In a tight race, ousted strongman leader Milorad Dodik's ally Sinisa Karan won with a three per cent margin over the opposition’s joint candidate, Branko Blanusa - but t…
Bosnian Serbs vote on Sunday for a successor to Milorad Dodik, ending a two-week campaign marked by divisive rhetoric, including hate-filled statements by Dodik targetin…
New leaders, old challenges, the threat of ‘TikTokracy’ and – not least – a look at the Dayton Peace Accords thirty years later, are all themes that preoccupy our select…