Obama: Economic crisis could threaten Balkan peace

President Barack Obama says the situation in the Balkans has stabilized, but the global economic crisis could threaten peace in the region.

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Russian gas supplies to Balkans halted

Bulgaria's energy ministry says Russian gas supplies to Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Macedonia have been suspended.

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Serbia furious after neighbors recognize Kosovo

Serbia expelled the Macedonian ambassador Friday, reflecting its fury over the recognition of Kosovo's independence by its closest neighbors.

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Q & A on arrest of Radovan Karadzic

The Serbian government probably had very good information as to where he was but didn’t have the will to act. It’s obvious that they knew where he was with his new age medical lectures advertised all over the Internet over the past 11 years. It is really a matter of political will in Belgrade. But, remember, he’s not the last one. This is one down two to go. (Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic are still wanted by the Hague Tribunal)

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UN: Balkans no longer hotbed of crime

The Balkans, a hotbed of crime and violence during the Yugoslav wars and the chaotic transition from communism, has become one of the safest areas in Europe to live, according to a U.N. report released Thursday.

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European Union Offers Serbia Closer Ties

European Union nations agreed Monday on an offer to set up regular political ties with Serbia, open up trade and end visa restrictions, but it fell short of a wider deal to prepare Serbia for EU membership.

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ANALYSIS: Tensions Rise in Balkans

Facing a possible loss of Kosovo, Serbian nationalists are re-igniting tensions in the Balkans, a region still reeling from brutal civil wars in the 1990s.

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U.N. prosecutors open their case against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic by playing recordings of him urging the destruction of non-Serbs.

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U.N. judges abruptly adjourned Radovan Karadzic's war crimes trial Monday after the former Bosnian Serb leader boycotted the opening day to protest his lack of time to prepare his defense.

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The trial of Radovan Karadzic starts Monday - one of the most significant war crimes cases to emerge from Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

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Prosecutors at the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal in The Hague filed a shortened final indictment against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday to speed up the trial.

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As authorities in Bosnia arrest another terrorism suspect believed to be trafficking weapons for radical Muslim groups, sources close to the investigation tell ISN Security Watch's Anes Alic that they are hoping, finally, to catch up with 'known' terrorists before it's to …

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"A special Serbian court has sentenced four radical Muslims from a the volatile Sandzak region of the country to up to eight years in prison each for planning terrorist attacks on targets in the Balkans.

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A U.N. judge Tuesday rejected a plea from former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for more time to prepare his defense and ordered his long-awaited war crimes trial to begin next month.

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Questions and answers about Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia this week.

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A U.N. war crimes court convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins Monday for a "callous" 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive.

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The U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal overturned the murder acquittal of a Serbian army officer on Tuesday, ruling that he did help kill 194 Croatian prisoners of war.

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You've got to love the underdog. It doesn't matter who they are or whether or not they're good at all, we just want the little guy to win--because in the real world, he usually doesn't.

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We don't hear much about what had happened in the Balkans or is still happening there so it's important projects like the one sponsoring this journalist still get funded.

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The Serbian government confirmed Thursday that it has paid $900,000 in compensation to the family of an American who was badly beaten, allegedly by a Serb.

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The official, Richard C. Holbrooke, now a special representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Obama administration, has repeatedly denied having promised Mr. Karadzic immunity from prosecution in exchange for abandoning power after the Bosnian war.

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Vesna Peric Zimonjic interviews war crimes prosecutor VLADIMIR VUKCEVIC (belgrade)Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Inter Press Service

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Thirteen Serbs were convicted of war crimes and sentenced to prison for the execution-style killings of 200 Croats - one of the worst massacres of POWs during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.

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The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said cocaine prices would continue to fall unless action was taken to block supply routes through West Africa and Eastern Europe.

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The World Bank is connected to the selective demolition of an Albanian hamlet. The Albanian PM is also complicit in the goings on.

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Can the Fuel Crisis in the Balkans be Taken as a Harbinger for the West?

The recent row between Gazprom and Ukraine has led to a debilitating lack of oil in the Balkans. It has taken on many forms, factories shutting down, schools closing, radiators in housing complexes turning off and so on. 96% of Bulgaria's oil comes from Russia.

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Of course, this will only last so long until they are right back at it next year; once again, in the freeze of winter.

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It would be wrong to say all the tensions in the former Yugoslav states originate in Serbia. All ethnic groups in the region have a tendency to emphasize their own victimization and whitewash their crimes.

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Nine Ancient Roman columns believed to have originally lined the most important Roman road into the Balkans have been discovered on a riverbed in northern Italy.

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Yugoslavia: Triggers of the Balkan Wars

This article simply postulates that had the United States supported the United Nations' Charter on the respect of territorial boundaries and non-intervention in other countries' affairs and pressured -in coordination with the EU- both Germany and the Vatican to retract their reco …

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Will the benefits of European unity ever trump the pursuit of national interests when it comes to Russia? Optimists like those in the ECFR say that a more united Europe still has the chance to prod Russia into being a more reliable partner, wedded to the rule of law, internationa …

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Strongly worded condemnations of Russia's action came on Tuesday from the very same countries that just a few months earlier recognized the "independence" of Kosovo.

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