3 July 2014

Stories from 3 July 2014

Albanian Activists Condemn ‘Terrorist’ Murder Verdict in Macedonia

  3 July 2014

Balkan Insight reports that an ethnic Albanian NGO in Macedonia has condemned a recent court verdict convicting six Albanian men for the execution-style murder of five ethnic Macedonians on Christian Orthodox Easter in 2012. The NGO claims that the entire investigation and verdict were politically-motivated and set against the six...

Serbian Artists Create “Neighborly Hanger” for Handouts

  3 July 2014

The image of the poorest segments of the population rummaging through trash cans has, unfortunately, become a common one in many Balkan countries in the past few years. From some of the 38,000 pensioners who currently receive the minimum monthly pension of barely 120 euro in Serbia, not enough to...