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The New Balkan Insight: We are changing

The New Balkan Insight

27 September 2010

Balkan Insight is moving to a new platform with an all-new look and feel.

Macedonian 'Spy' Row Judge Demands Public Hearing

Macedonia's Constitutional Court

27 September 2010

A judge from Macedonia’s Constitutional Court accused of being an informant for the former Yugoslav secret services has demanded the right to protest his innocence at a public hearing.

Half of Romanians 'Yearn for Communist Past'

Bucharest

24 September 2010

Nearly half of Romanians believe their life was better during the communist era, a new poll indicates.

Corruption Rows Stall Albania’s War on ‘Grey’ Economy

By Besar Likmeta and Gjergj Erebara

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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Kosovars Caught in Truman Show

By Avni Zogiani

09 September 2010

Kosovars are caught in a Truman Show world, unable to break free of the scenario set down from KFOR’s base at the appropriately named Film City.

BIRN Conference Addresses Integration of South Serbia

21 April 2011

Over 100 people from Serbia and abroad have gathered in Belgrade at a high profile BIRN conference on the integration of minority communities from South Serbia into the country's wider society and institutions.

The Second International Forum on South Serbia- ’Integrations: Combining Ethnic and Democratic Principles’

19 April 2011

BIRN Serbia is organising a high profile conference that will focus on integration processes of minority communities of South Serbia into Serbian society and institutions.

Life in Kosovo debates the activities of SHIK, Kosovo’s Former ‘Secret Service’

21 April 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcasts an interview with Andrea Capussela, the former director of financial unit of International Civilian Office, and interviews members of parliamentary commission for supervising the Kosovar Intelligence Agency.
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Life in Kosovo discusses the agreement ending the recent political crisis

07 April 2011 Life in Kosovo broadcast a debate involving representatives of political parties regarding the agreement, reached on April 6, that averted another round of elections.
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Life in Kosovo interviews Enver Hasani, head of the Constitutional Court and discusses the census

31 March 2011 On Thursday, Life in Kosovo broadcasts an exclusive interview with Enver Hasani, head of the Constitutional Court, and airs a debate on the census in Kosovo.
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Reporting from Local Communities

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 Strategy

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

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.

Minority Media Training and Reporting Project

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.