Serbia

Russian foreign minister cancels Serbia visit after neighbours close airspace

Russian foreign ministry blames west after Sergei Lavrov's visit to ally Belgrade is scrapped

Staff and agencies

06, Jun, 2022 @3:31 AM

Ivica Osim obituary

Bosnian footballer and coach who won 16 caps playing for Yugoslavia and went on to manage Japan’s national team

Brian Glanville

04, May, 2022 @4:02 PM

Ljubica Erickson obituary

Other lives: Social worker and indispensable help to her husband in his academic work on the Soviet military archives

Sara Bragg

21, Apr, 2022 @2:57 PM

Serbia ‘sliding towards autocracy’ as president secures second term

Amid claims of dirty tricks, Aleksandar Vučić has held on to the presidency, but activists are saying he is silencing opponents

Phoebe Greenwood in Belgrade

21, Apr, 2022 @5:45 AM

Ukraine matters, but so did Bosnia 30 years ago. Where was the outcry then? | Ed Vulliamy

Echoes of conflict are loud in Sarajevo on this poignant anniversary, yet there is one key difference

Ed Vulliamy

03, Apr, 2022 @6:00 AM

Russians using Serbian loophole to avoid EU flights ban

Air Serbia has doubled flights between Moscow and Belgrade as country’s planes can cross EU airspace

Rupert Neate and Gwyn Topham

11, Mar, 2022 @4:53 PM

Russia may pressure Serbia to undermine western Balkans, leaders warn

Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina urge western leaders to ‘engage more actively and strongly’ in the region

Patrick Wintour in London and Julian Borger in Washington

11, Mar, 2022 @5:00 AM

Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy review – belonging and betrayal

A child of the elite crosses the divide from east to west, in this atmospheric and gloriously vivid novel

James Smart

18, Feb, 2022 @7:30 AM

‘Illegal’ extradition of Bahraini dissident from Serbia calls Interpol’s role into question

Abuse of the policing body’s ‘red notice’ system is blamed as an activist is forced to return to life in prison in the Gulf state

Ruth Michaelson

16, Feb, 2022 @7:15 AM

Barbara Brandenburger obituary

Other lives: Co-founder of the Bosnian Support Fund, providing aid during and after the 1990s conflict

Caroline Kenyon

30, Jan, 2022 @5:32 PM

Dragan’s den: meeting Southampton’s new billionaire owner

In a rare interview Dragan Šolak talks to Shaun Walker about top-10 hopes for Saints, fears over Serbia’s media and missing out on Premier League rights

Shaun Walker in Milan

27, Jan, 2022 @9:00 PM

Serbia extradites Bahraini dissident in cooperation with Interpol

Move comes despite European court of human rights injunction saying that it should be postponed