Dusan Komarcevic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
People in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad lit candles outside a railway station late on November 1 after its concrete canopy collapsed and killed at least 14 people. Serbia has declared a period of national mourning.
New agreements signed during Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Belgrade have experts and activists worried about shrinking press freedoms and Beijing’s growing extrajudicial reach.
The Serbian government has signed a lease allowing a company owned by Jared Kushner to turn a former Yugoslav Army headquarters in Belgrade into commercial space. Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, has released few details about the project, being built into a structure bombed by NATO in 1999.
Hundreds of students blocked one of the busiest crossroads in the heart of Belgrade on December 25 in front of government buildings. The protesters accuse the ruling Serbian Progressive Party of electoral theft and are demanding to see the voting register.
An intimate video of an opposition candidate for Belgrade city assembly appeared on social media this week, in a campaign that international observers say is characterized by "unprecedented" fearmongering and attacks on the opposition.
Three Serbians -- a former defense lawyer for Serb war criminals, a onetime adviser to Bosnian Serb secessionist Milorad Dodik, and an exuberant journalist -- were in Russian-occupied Ukraine for what Kyiv and the West say were fake elections. Who sent them and on what authority?
Russian mercenary group Vagner's new public PR effort included a visit by Serbian ultranationalists who, incidentally, would like to know Moscow has their back in Kosovo.
So far, state-owned Air Serbia and privately owned Air Pink are exploiting Belgrade's refusal to join Western bans on Russian flights, potentially dulling the intended effect on pro-Kremlin elites and other well-heeled Russians.
Germany should not forget the crimes committed by the Nazis in occupied Serbia during World War II, the vice president of the Bundestag said following a visit to the Balkan country for a commemoration.
Sinisa Sevo opened a hostel in northern Serbia to migrants last year. Shortly thereafter, a far-right group included his photo and other data on posters plastered across the city of Sombor, labeling him a traitor, and triggering death threats.
The ripples from Facebook and Twitter bans on the outgoing U.S. president are being felt all over, including the Balkans.
After Serbia's official COVID-19 death count is challenged, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic suggests it's actually inflated and includes "XY" accident victims.
The whole incident might not have been picked apart on social media had it not been for Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's public apology, which has prompted teasing and mockery.
Critics call Bosnian Serb officials' effort to "reconstruct" the atrocities a cynical attempt to distance themselves from the blame assigned by international investigators and war crimes prosecutors.
Rami has shelled out thousands of euros in bribes, been detained by police, and trekked countless hours through forests and along other darkened byways -- all to escape his war-ravaged homeland of Syria and reach his dream destination: Germany.
The Hague tribunal on the former Yugoslavia has ordered an accused Serbian war criminal who was given a provisional release in 2014 to return to custody. But handing over the ailing ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj to the controversial court could be political suicide for Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.
