Bishop Clement, the secretary of the Macedonian Orthodox Church's Holy Synod, said on December 12 that the church will allow clergy to use Facebook but will make some restrictions on its use.
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.
After a massive and expensive urban renewal project designed to instill national pride, Skopje looks like a different city. And most people in the Macedonian capital aren't very happy about it.
On December 2-7, members of the United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO are meeting in the Azerbaijani capital Baku to consider which traditions, rituals, and crafts to add this year to its list of endangered Intangible Cultural Heritage. This year's applicants include everything from Mongolian yurt-making to Turkish coffee to polo played in Azerbaijan.
Serbia has become a magnet for asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East, but the country's two refugee camps are now fully occupied and closed off to new arrivals. With nowhere to go, many of the asylum seekers have been pushed out into the forest to live in tents and makeshift shelters -- but without basic amenities like heat and power. As winter arrives in Europe, RFE/RL correspondent Vesna Andjic visited one of the forest camps near the village of Bogovadja, 70 kilometers from Belgrade. (Text by Reuters)
The UN's cultural and educational organization, UNESCO, meets on December 2-7 to grant special designation to examples of intangible cultural heritage -- traditions, crafts, and rituals passed from generation to generation. Dozens of countries and communities are seeking recognition for their cultu
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.
Hundreds of demonstrators protesting the imprisonment of investigative journalist Tomislav Kezarovski scuffled with police in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, on October 23.
An investigative journalist in Macedonia has been imprisoned for revealing the identity of a witness in a murder case in a sentencing that has raised questions of press freedom in the country.
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.
A raid on the Russian offices of Greenpeace, support for Georgia's homeless, an abandoned district in Turkmenistan, and stories from Tajikistan and Macedonia in news from RFE/RL's broadcast countries.
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.
Load more
