Alan Crosby is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Athletes from Winter Olympics powerhouse Russia face an acute dilemma as the IOC ban lands 10 weeks before Pyeongchang.
A paintball club in Bosnia-Hercegovina says it will sue a television network after reports claimed it was a paramilitary unit that was being illegally formed by the country’s presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic.
The guilty verdict of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," brought the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) a step closer to its closure, but for many of his victims, it did little to ease the pain.
While the International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia blazed a trail of firsts, shortcomings such as failing to prevent the early release of those found guilty of war crimes have planted lingering doubts over its success in bringing justice and reconciliation to a region where ethnic tensions continue to simmer.
Governments worldwide are increasing efforts to manipulate information on social media, undermining democracy and creating an overall decline in Internet freedom, according to Freedom House.
Ukraine's double women's reigning world chess champion says she will not attend the $2 million world speed-chess championships after the game's governing body awarded the tournament next month to Saudi Arabia.
It's not just that people across the Balkans are finding it difficult to kick the smoking habit, there's been an increase in youth smoking in the region.
Decorated national team skipper’s armband highlights struggle LGBT community faces in deeply religious Georgia.
Amirbek Beknazarov's long political journey, which ended on October 13 when he withdrew on the eve of Kyrgyzstan's presidential election, was in lockstep with the Central Asian country's tortuous march toward democracy.
A false report on a Putin birthday burger gives food for thought on the role of fake news and international diplomacy.
Amnesty International (AI) says thousands of Afghans are being put in danger by European governments by forcing them home, where they face the risk of human rights abuses including torture, kidnapping, and death.
Villagers live in fear and hundreds have died as the Bosnian government's strategy to clear munitions left behind from the 1992-95 war lags behind amid a shortfall in funding and political inactivity.
Alliances between tech giants and automakers are spending billions of dollars to replace a legacy of smoke-spewing Ladas with vehicles that drive themselves.
More than 20,000 survivors of wartime sexual violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina are still being denied justice, Amnesty International said in a new report released on September 12.
Could several pointy hills north of Sarajevo be hiding a set of pyramids bigger and older than the famous ones in Egypt? Bosnia-Herzegovina's Indiana Jones believes so, even if few others do.
Members of a Montenegrin council tasked with coming up with education reforms have been stung by allegations of plagiarism.
Disillusioned and with some of Europe's -- and the world’s -- highest unemployment rates, many young people trying to enter the workforce in the Balkans are wondering what they can do to find work other than leave.
All Tatia Dolidze wanted to do was show that she and fellow Georgians were not in step with the xenophobic views on parade at an anti-immigration march supported by ultraconservatives and nationalists in Tbilisi.
Investigators say it's clear what caused Flight MH17 to crash in eastern Ukraine's war zone in 2014: a Buk missile brought in from Russia and fired from territory held by Moscow-backed separatists. But they have yet to name a single suspect, and families of the 298 victims can only sit and wait for justice.
Armenia's Golden Apricot international film festival has run into controversy as rights activists accuse organizers of censorship for scrapping part of the event that featured two films dealing with LGBT themes.
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