Marija Augustinovic-Stojak is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Uniquely among its neighbors and over the long-running objections of the OSCE, courts in Bosnia-Herzegovina have allowed more than a dozen people convicted of war crimes including rape and torture to buy their way out of prison time.
Schoolchildren in Bosnia-Herzegovina have long been taught a sanitized version of the terrible tragedies of the 1990s, largely to avoid biased narratives. A Serbian veterans’ group is trying to change that.
Fleeing increasingly repressive policies and a dimming future in China, a 26-year-old man's one-month trail through Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia highlights the growing number of Chinese asylum seekers coming to the EU this year.
Nearly three decades since the end of the Bosnian War, trials to prosecute those accused of war and other crimes are still proceeding. But often witnesses are wary of testifying, fearing possible retribution if they do.
Many mothers in Bosnia-Herzegovina know if they want a hassle-free birth, they better hand over cash to the doctor delivering their baby. One mother was so traumatized, she opted to have her fourth child at home, and later took the country to Europe's highest court for trying to block her.
"Co-ethnics" at home and abroad are encouraged to fly the Serbian flag on a new joint holiday with Republika Srpska that, at best, sends ambiguous signals about postwar borders in the Balkans.
A hotel owner in Bosnia-Herzegovina removed three figures that were "urinating" into a Bosnia-shaped pool in an art installation inspired by a postmodern Czech bad boy.
