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.

US imposes 35-per-cent tariff on exports from Serbia and 30-per-cent tariff on exports from Bosnia – whose defence industry will be the hardest-hit sector.

As BIRN celebrates two decades of work, there never seems to be a dull moment in the region, as our selection of Premium stories this week shows.

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.

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.

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 ...

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Back in 2005, five women from countries recovering from brutal wars defied the odds to establish what would become a major independent media organisation - Balkan Investigative Reporting Network ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.