Ljudmila Cvetkovic is a correspondent with RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
President Aleksandar Vucic's casual response to leniency for a wealthy and well-connected defendant accused of growing tons of illegal marijuana highlighted the legal dilemma of epileptic 58-year-old Dragoljub Mrdjic, who's prison-bound for possessing 88 grams of weed.
A group of surviving detainees -- including the Bosniak in an iconic image of Balkan wartime atrocity -- are challenging the Serbian broadcasting watchdog's failure to call out celebrity apologists.
Dragica Gasic said her dream had come true after Kosovar authorities allowed her to return to her apartment in a western city whose mostly Muslim residents suffered hugely during ethnic fighting in the late 1990s. The elation didn't last long.
Stripped of police protection for his children, a longtime critic of Serbia's nationalists and their Russian allies has accused Moscow of targeting his children in an attack at a Belgrade McDonald's two years ago.
With Beijing's growing role in higher education, Serbia is becoming the "poster child" in the region for cooperation with China.
From his early alliance with a notorious paramilitary leader to LGBT mockery and whispers of "bunga-bunga" parties, United Serbia party head Dragan "Palma" Markovic has courted controversy and is now the focus of an investigation into allegations he organized underage girls for sex.
President Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to take down a notorious criminal group with ties to hooligan fans of Belgrade's storied Partizan soccer team. But a month after a police sweep, troubling signs have emerged.
Signups for shots are alarmingly low in Serbia despite what officials say are robust supplies of four vaccines.
Serbian sculptor Nikola Macura turns weapons and military equipment into musical instruments. He's used handheld mortars, Kalashnikovs, and helmets as part of a new sound installation called From Noise To Sound.
Two of Belgrade's most powerful ministers have poured gasoline on smoldering ethnic tensions by repeatedly hurling epithets at ethnic Albanians and disrespecting war victims.
The street artist Pijanista has increasingly focused his ingenuity on worrisome trends in Serbia, from a budding surveillance society to a "fraudulent" vote. All from outside the narrow confines of "contemporary art."
Serbia's ruling right-wing populists are expected to dominate this weekend's national elections following a campaign that has featured a lot of flag-waving.
The public has reacted negatively to reports that the Defense Ministry is sending call-up notices in an effort to beef up the military reserves. With tensions with neighboring Kosovo running high and memories of the wars of the 1990s still fresh, many Serbs are speaking out on the Internet against what they see as a new "mobilization."
Florence Hartmann, the former spokeswoman for The Hague war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, this week was found guilty of publishing confidential court documents. The court said her actions put the work of the tribunal in peril. But Hartmann's supporters say the court is to blame for seeking to hide potential evidence linking Belgrade to war crimes in the Bosnian war.
In the former Yugoslavia, language and politics are closely intertwined. The once single common language, Serbo-Croatian, has now become Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. But are they really separate languages?
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