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Blerta Basholli says the Cannes award for her film about a girl maturing in war-afflicted Kosovo shows local films can reach an audience far beyond Kosovo’s borders.
May 29, 2026
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Veteran sports journalist Alp Ulagay says Turkey’s triumphs in both sports was the result of careful planning – and an infusion of talent from the Balkans.
May 26, 2026
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Rene Karabash tells BIRN how the ancient Albanian custom of women becoming ‘sworn virgins’ became the subject of her acclaimed novel – which put Bulgarian literature in the spotlight as…
May 20, 2026
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Lejla Dauti and Leonarda Demolli migrated to the UK from Kosovo as children where their experience of gender freedom led them to found a podcast sharing the voices of Albanian…
May 18, 2026
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Montenegro is spending big to bring the high-profile EXIT music festival to its shores after its politically-connected exile from Serbia, although not everyone is convinced of the benefit.
May 7, 2026
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The siege of Sarajevo, and artists’ role in it, lives on through Milomir Kovacevic's photographs. To coincide with a new exhibition of his pictures, Bosnian writer Semezdin Mehmedinovic sets the…
May 6, 2026
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BIRN-supported exhibition showcases how Bosnia's capital kept culture alive amid the hardships of the 1992-95 siege.
May 5, 2026
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