Gojko Veselinovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
More weekend visitors than usual were observed on March 9 outside the Optima Group company's headquarters in Banja Luka as it became a polling station for early voting in Russia's presidential election. The Russian Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina rejected RFE/RL's request to film the voting.
Bosnians living near open-pit coal mines are fearful that vast excavations are destabilizing their land and that digging may be illegally extending under people's property. Mines lay in areas prone to landslides but coal companies maintain they are following Bosnian law..
Organizers of the Chechnya Fest, in a quiet corner of Bosnia-Herzegovina, say there's no harm in promoting a charity event with images of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, accused by rights groups of reigning over egregious torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings.
The ethnically based entities that make up Bosnia-Herzegovina are choosing separate paths to vaccinate their populations, a large segment of which doesn't appear to trust the science anyway.
Bosnians fed up with "hungry" politicians' demands for payments known as "white bread."
By now, much of the world is watching the spiraling crisis in Ukraine, from its bloody street protests to Russia's takeover of Crimea to "protect" its ethnic Russians. But nowhere do the events have greater resonance than in the Balkans, where a similar cauldron of history, ethnicity, and the breakup of a once-great nation led to the devastating wars of the 1990s.
