A bomb has damaged the offices of the "Vijesti" daily in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica.
Transparency International is warning that the abuse of power, secret dealings, and bribery within the public sector continue to "ravage" countries around the world, including in the former Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States.
The Council of Europe's human rights commissioner, Nils Muiznieks, has published a research paper severely criticizing the migration policies of the European Union and the countries in the Western Balkans.
Jovanka Broz, who spent three decades as Yugoslavia's first lady but was left stateless and forgotten as the socialist federation built by her husband Josip Broz Tito dissolved in war, died on Sunday (October 20) in a Belgrade hospital. She was 88 and had lived largely in isolation since the 1980 death of long-time Yugoslav leader Tito, squirreled away in a crumbling state-owned villa in the Serbian capital without a passport or ID.
The Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, saw its first-ever gay pride parade.
A draft of the annual European Commission (EC) report on EU enlargement has outlined the progress and setbacks experienced by the six candidate and potential candidate countries from the Western Balkans as well as Iceland and Turkey.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy says Montenegro is ready to begin negotiations on new issues in its EU membership talks.
The EU Commission has published a list of 250 energy infrastructure projects, including several in the Western Balkans and Eastern Neighborhood, that are eligible for EU funding from 2014-20.
At a ceremony in Montenegro's capital, Podgorica, Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Yalchin Efendiyev opened the renovated King's Park with a statue of Azeri poet Huseyn Cavid. The project, which also included renovation of an adjacent street renamed Baku Street, cost several million dollars. Azerbaijan has financed the erecting of statues of former President Heydar Aliyev in several friendly countries around the world, including Montenegro's bigger neighbor, Serbia. (Esad Krcic, RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
A statue of prominent Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Cavid is expected to be unveiled in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, on September 11.
The Podgorica Aluminum Plant is a key part of the Montenegrin economy. Now it is the object of a life-or-death struggle between the government and the company's Russian shareholders, who have announced they are filing a billion-dollar lawsuit for breach of contract.
For the last 10 summers, Rasko Tanasijevic has led a group of cyclists on the 470-kilometer journey from his hometown of Kragujevac, Serbia, to Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a message of peace and reconciliation.
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