Miran Jelenek is a camera operator at the Sarajevo bureau of RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Both countries are home to public memorials honoring leaders convicted of war crimes, but it's the activists who protest against those displays who face repercussions.
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.
A rally has urged an end to hydroelectric projects on the Neretva River. Demonstrators gathered in the Bosnian city of Konjic on November 11 to protest the construction of the Ulog dam in Bosnia's Serb entity, Republika Srpska, by the Chinese state-owned Sinohydro company.
Bosnian honey is losing some of its luster as scammers put additives into their harvests. With honey production way down owing to bee population crashes, producers are getting creative with syrups and other impurities that end up in honey for sale. Meanwhile, quality control is weak.
Despite repeatedly filing domestic violence reports to police and social services, Alma Kadic was killed by her husband in front of their 4-year-old daughter in July 2021 in Sarajevo. Her husband, Eldin Hodzic, was finally sentenced to 35 years in prison in April of this year.
When a senior policeman in Bosnia and Herzegovina was caught on camera threatening to rip a journalist's throat out, it focused attention on the intimidation and violence faced by journalists in the country.
Suhra Malic has buried her son's recently discovered skull at the Potocari national memorial to the victims of the Srebrenica massacre on the 27th anniversary of the genocide. The 86-year-old lost two sons at Srebrenica.
