Iva Martinovic is a video journalist for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Kosovars and Montenegrins take issue after tennis ace Novak Djokovic and his Serbian national teammates take to the court for late-round Davis Cup matches to a tune that calls for the Serbian flag to fly over foreign lands.
Serbian police have displayed guns collected in a nationwide disarmament campaign. President Aleksandar Vucic came on May 14 to a depot in the city of Smederevo where the police showed some of the firearms, explosives, and ammunition seized or voluntarily turned in by people.
Serbian police have been rounding up people traveling toward the European Union and taking them to government-run camps around the country. A nongovernmental group said the EU was pressuring Belgrade to stop the flow of people, mostly from Afghanistan and Syria, heading for the EU.
Leading Serbian news outlet Danas is under police protection after receiving a threat that it would suffer the same fate as the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, where several journalists were murdered in an attack by Islamist extremists in 2015.
Twenty-four-year-old comic author Gleb Pushev left his hometown, St. Petersburg, after posting a caricature of the Russian president in bloody clothes with a knife in his hand on social media. Fearing arrest, in early March he went to Belgrade, where he continues to draw anti-war cartoons.
Anti-war activists are removing symbols of Russia's war on Ukraine that have appeared on city streets throughout Serbia since the early days of the invasion. The works include murals of Vladimir Putin and Russian paramilitary groups accused of war crimes.
The Chinese tech giant Huawei has been linked to large, shadowy offshore payments sent to Serbian lobbyists close to the country’s state telecommunications company -- giving a rare insight into how the company wins influence in the Balkan nation.
In August 1991, as Yugoslavia disintegrated, national army troops and paramilitary forces laid siege to the city of Vukovar in northeastern Croatia. One resident, Pavo Zivkovic, has spent decades trying to find his son Goran, who he believes was among the victims of a massacre near the city.
Serbia's president was eagerly courting Minsk's embattled authoritarian leader as recently as last month. But he and other Balkan leaders have been noticeably quiet since Belarusians erupted in postelection protest.
Cyrillic has a place in Serbia's constitution, and students there learn it first. But Latin script is making inroads.
Distraught parents fear that officials told them their newborns were dead so they could be trafficked in the 1970s.
Young Serbs took to the streets in raucous -- and remarkably persistent -- protests following this month's presidential vote.
An RFE/RL correspondent recently rode on a Belgrade bus packed with Afghans and other refugees heading to the EU. What she saw on the trip shocked her.
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.
Two years ago it made an international splash with a fake news story about a drunken Serb who killed a shark that had been terrorizing tourists in Egypt. Since then, Njuz.net has established itself as something of a Serbian version of "The Onion," with a sharp and satirical take on Serbian politics, society, and public opinion.
Attempts by young Serbian and Kosovar artists to bridge the gap between their countries and communities are being thwarted due to lingering fears and entrenched animosities.
A potentially profitable business delivering go-anywhere mini-churches in Serbia reportedly has the backing of Orthodox officials. But it doesn't please everybody.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi doesn't have many friends in the world. But he can count on Serbia's ultranationalists.
July 11 is the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, when Bosnian Serb paramilitaries executed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys toward the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In an effort at reconciliation in Belgrade, some Serbian activists are preparing their own special memorial to the victims.
For over a year, Russia has pushed for a new European security body to replace groups like NATO and the OSCE. Moscow appeared to seek a European foothold for its initiative this week when President Dmitry Medvedev told counterparts in Serbia they would be part of the security deal.
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