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Sofia
02 September 2010
Ahmed Dogan, the leader of Bulgaria's Turkish minority party, has gone on trial over an alleged conflict of interest in connection with payments he received as an energy consultant.
Butel graveyard
02 September 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc
02 September 2010
Romanian Premier Emil Boc has announced plans to reshuffle his cabinet.
Fresh Names Added to Albania "Terror Watch" List
FM: Macedonian Delegation to Meet “Name” Mediator
Bosnian Woman in 'Puppy Drowning' Bid 'Identified'
Macedonia Press Review – September 2, 2010
Bulgaria Press Review – September 2, 2010
Serbia Press Review – September 2, 2010
Kosovo Press Review - September 2, 2010
Romania Press Review – September 2, 2010
Bosnia Press Review - Sep 2, 2010
Belgrade, Pristina Deny ICG 'Land Swap' Claim
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Investigation
27 July 2010
Third official campaign to suppress cash-only economy by forcing companies to use registers looks like running into sand again - drawing complaints that the machines don’t work and claims of conflicts of interest.
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26 August 2010
Arts festivals flourished when Serbia was in crisis in the 1990s. Ironically, in today’s freer climate, the arts are in crisis, while the festival concept has lost its way.
30 August 2010 With the sounds of guitars and the consummation of traditional Serbian dishes on a balcony in the Petrovaradin fortress in the town of Novi Sad, the BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting has officially ended.
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27 August 2010 Access to freedom-of-information laws is a key way for investigative journalists to unearth stories, a human rights professional Helen Darbishire has told reporters attending BIRN's Summer School of Investigative Reporting.
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27 August 2010 Investigative journalists don't have to cut emotion out of their story as the story is dead without emotions, journalist and trainer Mark Lee Hunter told reporters attending BIRN's Summer School of Investigative Reporting.
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13 August 2010 On Thursday March 25, Life in Kosovo broadcast exclusive interviews with Muhamet Hamiti and Muhamedin Kullashi, Kosovo’s ambassadors to the United Kingdom and France respectively.
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13 August 2010
Life in Kosovo broadcast a debate on the findings of a one-year monitoring of the health sector conducted by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN).
04 May 2010 On April 27 and 28 the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, in collaboration with USAID's Judicial Sector Development Programme, continued a training course for journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina reporting on war-crimes trials conducted before cantonal and district courts.
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Training is BIRN’s core activity, aimed to strengthen professional capacities of journalists and media outlets across the region.
BIRN training activities are designed to build journalists professional skill to produce relevant reporting that has an impact on societies, opinion-shapers and decision-makers in the Balkans.
Justice Report is a specialist reporting agency focusing on war crimes trials taking place before local courts; development of the local legal system; and efforts to come to terms with the past.
The Minority Media Training and
Reporting Project aims to improve standards of journalism in areas of Serbia with substantial
minority populations and to improve understanding of minority issues among the
mainstream population, thereby challenging the current mood of suspicion and
misunderstanding.
At the beginning of 2010 BIRN network published Digging Deeper - A Guide for Investigative Journalists in the Balkans, written in cooperation with Sheila Coronel, Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice at Columbia University, New York.
