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

The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.

Former communist countries in Southeast Europe face catastrophic depopulation, with far-reaching social and political consequences.

They are Muslims like the majority of Kosovo Albanians, and speak a similar language to Serbs, but Kosovo’s minority Bosniaks have encountered discrimination, violence and poverty as they ...

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history ...

Across the region, our selection of this week's Balkan Insight Premium stories suggests that alarm bells are going off in many countries - and not only because of the wildfires.

After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

Grubi’s hawkish defence of the Albanian cause in North Macedonia launched his political career; now his blacklisting by the US threatens to end it.

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has proposed using artificial intelligence in public procurement processes to tackle corruption – but experts argue that the root causes should be dealt with ...

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Twenty-five years since the war ended, relations between most Kosovo Albanians and Serbs remain deeply troubled – but at workplaces and markets, some have discovered common ground.