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.
Despite tensions between Skopje and Athens over a long-running country-name dispute, it seems that Macedonians have no problems with Greece when the holiday season comes around.
Several dozen protesters have staged a demonstration against the destruction of a small park in the center of the Macedonian capital, Skopje.
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Skopje earthquake, which destroyed more than 80 percent of the Macedonian capital and left some 1,000 people dead. Despite an elaborate makeover nearby, the effects of the devastating tremor all those years ago still leave their mark.
The leaders of eight Balkan states have held an informal summit in Slovenia aimed at promoting cooperation and getting more countries into the European Union, two decades after the region was ravaged by wars in the early 1990s.
Rights groups have been taking Macedonian authorities to task for their apparent dilatory response to violence that marred the country's first-ever Gay Pride Week last month.
What do you call free, internet-based classes taught by professors from top U.S. schools? They're known as "massive open online courses," or "MOOCs." But some are simply calling them an educational revolution.
Croatia, which joined the European Union on July 1, is likely to be the last addition for some time. Other Balkan states are likely to follow suit, but it's likely to take at least another decade. As for the EU's neighbors to the east, their journey to membership is rockier still.
A Macedonian commercial called "Ten Meters Apart," showing the first-ever joint prayer by members of the country's Christian and Muslim communities, becomes the first spot from the Balkans to win the Titanium Lion at the Cannes Lions, the largest advertising festival in the world.
Reports say Muslims from the Balkans are traveling to Syria to help rebels fight President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is criticizing the detention of a Macedonian journalist over an article he wrote in 2008.
Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov has canceled a summit of the South-East Europe Cooperation Process after Albania and Croatia announced they would not attend to protest Kosovo's exclusion.
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