Jacob Mikanowski, in his book 'Goodbye, Eastern Europe', argues that Eastern Europe no longer exists as a unified identity, ...

Another shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Scotland just last month when a group of divers came across what's believed to be The HMS Hawke, a WWI ship that sank after being torpedoed by a ...

“Precipice” (Harper), on sale this week, is set in 1914 on the eve of WWI and details a long-hidden affair by the married Prime Minister H.H. Asquith and his much, much younger mistress ...

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...

The Balkan Breakfast is a TikTok trend that originated with a video of middle-aged Turkish TikToker @.dayi _ eating raw individual ingredients one bite at a time. For those curious about the ...

Youth brain drain is becoming one of the most worrisome problems for Western Balkan countries. All six countries of the region — Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia ...

After decades working as a journalist, including eight years as the director of RFE/RL's Balkan Service, Gordana Knezevic is leaving the RFE/RL due to illness and relocating to Canada to be closer ...

A member of a group of international activists who were arrested while trying to aid distressed migrants on the Bulgarian-Turkish border said the border police abused and threatened them. Refugee ...

Many Albanians find themselves priced out of urban centres by a sharp rise in real-estate prices that experts say is fuelled, like elsewhere in the Balkans, by money-laundering. Prices in Tirana ...

The so-called Balkan Breakfast has gone viral on TikTok. The meme trend purportedly shows how Balkans eat the most important meal of the day. It started with a Balkan dad chowing down on raw veggies, ...

Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans offers a comparative, cross-regional study of the politics and economics of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania from 1999 to ...