The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) reported on Friday that Russia’s TASS news agency has been suspended for failing to meet its requirements. The decision came during the EANA’s general assembly in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, the alliance’s president Clemens Pig told reporters. In February, three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, EANA’s executive body composed of … Read more
Hundreds of protesters marched in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, on Monday, urging Russia to cease the Ukraine conflict. Sarajevo was besieged during a devastating civil war in the 1990s. Bosnia’s inter-ethnic war killed nearly 100,000 people, of whom more than 11,000 died during the Sarajevo siege by Serb forces. The march was organized by associations gathering … Read more
A retired Bosnian Muslim forces general became sentenced to 8 years in jail on Thursday for battle crimes devoted by overseas jihadists during Bosnia’s brutal Nineties struggle. Sakib Mahmuljin, 69 tried for his position on the pinnacle of the command chain of foreign opponents that done greater than 50 Bosnian Serb prisoners of struggle in … Read more
On Thursday, a Bosnian court acquitted a former police commander of killing eight ethnic Serb prisoners of war during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Dragan Vikic and three other former policemen were acquitted “since it was not proven that they had committed the criminal acts that they were accused of”, the court said … Read more
The Russian consulate in Sarajevo on Wednesday cautioned the West’s mentality could cause “destabilization” in Bosnia, a day after the nation’s top worldwide agent suspended a dissident ethnic Serb regulation. The response of Moscow reflects strains in the unpredictable Balkans district, generally conflicted between East and West, and where Russia looks to broaden its impact. … Read more
