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.

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.

Download this e-book collection of Balkan Insight’s reports telling the story of the mass protest movement in Serbia from November 2024 to May 2025.

Igor Popovic pleads guilty to charges of inciting ethnic hatred by calling the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation' in a speech to Kosovo Serbs.

Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to ...

Viennese researchers upset traditionally minded Albanians by pouring cold water on the theory that the Albanian language has its roots in Ancient Illyria.

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future.

The article explores how the 'Kosovo Precedent' influenced Vladimir Putin's strategy and justification for invading Ukraine.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, High Representative Valentin Inzko, used his power to impose amendments to the country’s criminal code to ban the denial of genocide and ...

A declaration that Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are all variations of the same language has annoyed conservatives, but received a warmer welcome from the people who speak it.

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 ...