Nevena Bogdanovic is a correspondent based in Belgrade for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
By appointing two members who are under U.S. sanctions to the new Serbian government, Belgrade has only nurtured its relationship with Moscow, a senior associate with the Berlin-based Council for Democratization Policy told RFE/RL on April 30.
A Kazakh refugee in Serbia who has waited nine years for official residence status has finally been given a new kind of document: a "refugee passport." Baha Sarsenov, who fled political persecution in Kazakhstan in 2015, will finally be able to travel again.
Journalists in northern Serbia are facing "unprecedented levels" of intimidation, including threats of physical violence. Dinko Gruhonjic found death threats graffitied outside his home. He is one of seven journalists in Serbia to be targeted in March.
Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Both countries are home to public memorials honoring leaders convicted of war crimes, but it's the activists who protest against those displays who face repercussions.
Activists and residents say Serbia's most visited mountain resort of Zlatibor is under threat from overdevelopment, with the local authorities seeking to attract 1 million visitors annually.
The annual LGBT Pride parade was held in the Serbian capital for the 11th time on September 9. Organizers said it was the most attended so far. Police cordoned off protesters waving Serbian Orthodox symbols.
Russian anti-war activist Vladimir Volokhonsky fled to Serbia after he faced arrest at home, but now fears deportation back to Russia. Opponents of Moscow's war on Ukraine say Serbia is increasingly working in concert with the Kremlin to target them.
Serbian police have displayed guns collected in a nationwide disarmament campaign. President Aleksandar Vucic came on May 14 to a depot in the city of Smederevo where the police showed some of the firearms, explosives, and ammunition seized or voluntarily turned in by people.
Hundreds marched in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on December 24 to mark 10 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. The event was organized by the Russian Democratic Society, established by Russian expatriates in Serbia who stand against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his attack on Ukraine.
A closer look at seven dubious lessons in a government-accredited history textbook for college-aged students in a region with a troubled recent past.
Education authorities are scrutinizing textbooks after right-wingers teamed up with the powerful Orthodox Church to challenge a recently introduced syllabus and textbooks that they claim are overly indulgent on gender issues.
Serb nationals continue to win construction contracts in Serbia and Serb-controlled areas of Kosovo despite being blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury Department in December for organized crime ties, an investigation by RFE/RL’s Balkan Service has found.
A multibillion-dollar mining venture becomes a symbol of public resistance, as Serbia's ruling party pushes through laws that would make it easier to override public opposition to such projects.
A spray-painted image of wartime Bosnian Serb leader and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic has been put under police guard after ultranationalists objected to efforts to erase the divisive image from a wall in Serbia's capital.
President Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to take down a notorious criminal group with ties to hooligan fans of Belgrade's storied Partizan soccer team. But a month after a police sweep, troubling signs have emerged.
One of Europe's most influential former diplomats has taken aim at perceptions that Europe has done little to help the Balkans as they grapple with the coronavirus pandemic and puts China's contributions in perspective.
As the leaders of Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia press on with plans to ease cross-border traffic, getting their other Western Balkan neighbors on board could make all the difference.
Among themselves, ethnic Albanians can say it, and often do. But a Serbian minister has crossed a line by using a slang word referring to them.
