Just a glance at the titles of some of the main newspapers in the Balkans is enough to demonstrate why these countries remain divided even as they search for their true identities.
Sixty years ago, the UN adopted a milestone document that provided impetus to the human rights movement and inspired standard-bearers of peace, equality, and justice. How is it holding up?
The First Bank of Montenegro, which is partly owned by the Montenegrin prime minister and his two siblings, is asking for a 40 million-euro ($50 million) bailout from the government.
The Yugo, the car everyone -- or almost everyone -- loved to hate, is no more. The last one has rolled of the production line at the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac.
Organized crime and radical nationalism have always gone hand in hand in the Balkans. Under the cover of "patriotism," war crimes and more banal crimes thrived. The assassination last week in Zagreb of journalist Ivo Pukanic is just the latest example of this lamentable pattern, says Nenad Pejic.
U.S. President George W. Bush has signed NATO agreements that put Albania and Croatia a step closer to joining the Western security alliance, calling it a historic step for the Balkans.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic made his latest bold gambit in recognizing Kosovo's independence. RFE/RL's Nenad Pejic argues that it's par for the course for a leader who is peerless at weathering political storms and has brought his country through two perilous decades without violence.
More than 20 people have been injured after Montenegrin police used tear gas against demonstrators protesting the government's decision to recognize Kosovo, a move seen by many as a stab in the back for Serbia.
Late last night -- under cover of darkness, as it were -- the governments of Montenegro and Macedonia issued a joint statement on recognizing Kosovo's independence. It was a smart move, copying a similar tactic used by Hungary and Croatia in March.
Serbia's neighbors Montenegro and Macedonia have recognized Kosovo in a blow to Belgrade's efforts to counter the secession of its former province.
Montenegro, the last Balkan state to end its union with Serbia, has recognized Kosovo in a blow to Belgrade's efforts to counter the secession of its former province.
Montenegro's parliament has passed a resolution that the opposition sees as a first step towards recognizing the independence of Kosovo, a sharply divisive issue in the former Yugoslav republic.
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