Andy Heil News Today

An RFE/RL correspondent dipped his toe into a notorious content-sharing platform in Bulgaria where users get paid for setting up websites that spread disinformation and pro-Russian narratives.

Uniquely among its neighbors and over the long-running objections of the OSCE, courts in Bosnia-Herzegovina have allowed more than a dozen people convicted of war crimes including rape and torture to buy their way out of prison time.

An organization called the Group for Romania says the country has become "a colony" of "Judeo-Westerners" and called on China and Russia to save them. Some of the purported signatories insist they want no such thing.

New research has shown that there were twice as many violent deaths in the four decades of communist rule than in the years of democratization since the fall of the regime.

Schoolchildren in Bosnia-Herzegovina have long been taught a sanitized version of the terrible tragedies of the 1990s, largely to avoid biased narratives. A Serbian veterans’ group is trying to change that.

Moldova has rejected a Russian request for polling stations in the breakaway Transdniester region, another sign that countries on Russia's periphery are committed to countering Kremlin influence.

EU-wide sanctions should have blocked easy access to the websites of two key Kremlin media outlets that the bloc says are spreading propaganda and disinformation. But RFE/RL's Balkan Service discovers that the websites are still accessible.

After decades looking the other way, the Kosovar Central Bank announced a two-week deadline for tens of thousands of Serbs to abandon the dinar -- and their reliance on backdoor funding from Belgrade.

Lenders owned by autocratic Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's family have increased their share of the banking sector's assets nearly threefold to 43 percent since 2015, when the government carried out crippling devaluations of the national currency, an RFE/RL investigation has found.

Kosovars' unofficial over-the-counter approach and seemingly chronic overuse of antibiotics risks contributing to Europe and the world's mounting problem of antimicrobial resistance.