About 60 divers took the 21-meter plunge off Mostar's Old Bridge into the Neretva River. It was the 450th edition of the unique diving competition in Bosnia. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
Croatia's Supreme Court has quashed a verdict against a former lawmaker convicted of war crimes for killing Serbian civilians and ordered a full retrial.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appealed his 40-year jail sentence for genocide and accused UN judges of "subjecting him to a political trial."
In reaction to my blog post on Goran Hadzic, who died before the case against him at the International War Crimes Tribunal was completed, I received an e-mail from a well-respected U.S. historian. In a courteous and otherwise supportive message, the professor objected to my description of the level of devastation of Vukovar in 1991, at the outset of the Yugoslav wars.
After spending seven years in hiding, Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic was arrested in July 2011. He was the last Serbian fugitive sought by the UN tribunal in The Hague. His arrest was seen as the closure of a horrific chapter in Balkan history.
On July 13, a Montenegrin naval officer who chose to take his own life rather than obey an order to bombard Croatian cities in 1991 was posthumously awarded a high-level decoration by President Filip Vujanovic.
Bosnia-Herzegovina's appeals court has upheld a prison sentence against a former beauty queen who was charged with coaxing a Bosnian mafia boss into a trap so his rival could try to kill him.
A U.S. official says Washington must work to discourage governments in the Western Balkans from encroaching on media freedoms, comments that come amid criticism from rights activists and Western officials in recent months about the state of the free press in the region.
Residents of the Serbian capital held a memorial ceremony on July 11, the anniversary of the 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. Activists held a banner declaring "We will never forget the genocide." (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
Thousands of Bosnian Muslims paid their respects to 127 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre whose remains were buried at a memorial near the town.
As events are held to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre, Balkans blogger Gordana Knezevic looks at how politics and competing narratives are desecrating the memory of the victims.
Thousands of people paid homage to the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, raising their hands in prayer as a truck passed through the capital Sarajevo carrying the remains of 127 newly identified victims for a final burial.
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