Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

Viennese researchers upset traditionally minded Albanians by pouring cold water on the theory that the Albanian language has its roots in Ancient Illyria.

In the arid north-east, the towns monopolise the running water while the villagers dig ever-deeper wells, in a race to the bottom that portends Europe’s hotter, drier future.

As Albanian websites spread falsehoods to discredit women in the media, a culture of silence and weak legal protections leave women journalists increasingly vulnerable.

The article explores how the 'Kosovo Precedent' influenced Vladimir Putin's strategy and justification for invading Ukraine.

Tensions between Greece and Libya have a direct effect on the flow of refugees and migrants arriving on the shores of the island of Crete, in turn pushing Athens to adopt ever more repressive ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s top international official, High Representative Valentin Inzko, used his power to impose amendments to the country’s criminal code to ban the denial of genocide and ...

Already repurposed due to legal challenges, Italy’s asylum centres in Albania cost more than originally planned and much more than similar facilities in Italy itself, offering a potential lesson ...

A declaration that Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are all variations of the same language has annoyed conservatives, but received a warmer welcome from the people who speak it.

As well as the large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology in urban areas, the authorities have sought to monitor opponents, activists and journalists, says ...

Twenty years after inter-ethnic unrest erupted across Kosovo, leaving 19 dead, hundreds injured and homes and churches burned, the few Serbs who remain in the village of Bellopoja/Belo Polje ...

Most cybercrimes in Albania are directly related to the misuse of citizens’ personal data, primarily on social media, the head of the police’s Cybercrime Investigations Directorate, Ervina ...