The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office has called for an investigation to begin at a mass grave site in the southwestern Serbian town of Raska. Ten days ago Serbia announced that with the help of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, it had uncovered a mass grave …

Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal say Serbia has sent the court a bundle of diaries written by Bosnian Serb wartime military commander General Ratko Mladic. They have filed a motion seeking to have the notebooks included as evidence in the case against Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime …

Some 20,000 public workers today gathered in the Romanian capital to protest planned government wage cuts meant to shore up the country’s ailing economy. Public workers, teachers, doctors and retirees protested outside the government offices in downtown Bucharest. The two-hour protest blocked traffic in the city center.

Romanian authorities closed off parts of central Bucharest today, preparing for protests against drastic spending cuts which unions say could attract up to 60,000 demonstrators. It marks the first serious test of the six-month-old centrist government’s determination to force through austerity measures vital to securing more international aid for its …

The conference cycle titled, “Ohrid talks“, which represent the continual bilateral meetings for exchange of opinions and experiences between representatives of Interior Ministries from Republic of Macedonia and German province of Brandenburg, is due to begin on Wednesday in Ohrid.

The Russian Federation and Ukraine stand for resolving the Transnistria problem by using exclusively peaceful political means through holding an equal-right dialog in order to determine a special and reliably guaranteed legal status for Transnistria on the basis of observing

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, on Wednesday is set to deliver the final verdict in the case of former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskoski and police officer Johan Tarculovski. Boskoski and Tarculovski are the only people from Macedonia to be indicted by the UN war crimes …

The Georgian president said relations between Turkey and Georgia are “exemplary” during a visit by the Turkish prime minister to the Black Sea resort city of Batumi on Monday. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s remarks came while he was speaking during the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Sheraton Batumi Hotel, built by …

The Bulgarian nationalist party VMRO and its partner cable TV channel SKAT have collected 200 000 signatures in support of their demand for a nation-wide referendum on Turkey’s EU accession. The VMRO press center announced Tuesday that the signatures were collected in one month, and that the initiative of the …

Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina have arrested two individuals, including one police officer, on suspicion of war crimes. Milan Peric (1961) and Slavko Lalovic (1959) are suspected of crimes committed in 1992 in the area of Kalinovik, in eastern Herzegovina.