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Georgie Archer reflects on her time hiking the Peaks of the Balkans trail, a stunning route that zig-zags over the borders between Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania in the depths of the mountains. [...]

Maya Ivanova reviews Kapka Kassabova's "Border", a reflective exploration of the frontier regions where Bulgaria, Greece, and Türkiye meet.

In Skopje, museums are left to fall apart and crumble while expensive monuments are erected to support different narratives of Macedonian history.

As election day turned into night, many across Serbia waited for the release of official election results from races up to and down the country – acutely aware of how the final results [...]

‘The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left—the King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.’ So King Farouk of [...]

One of my favourite things about the upcoming holidays is the amount of time I can spend on reading. Every year, I find at least one book under the Christmas tree and usually, I finish it before [...]

Following the resolution of an almost three-decades-long surreal name dispute with Greece, North Macedonia’s path to EU membership looked relatively optimistic. Until recently. On 17 November, [...]

By analysing two classic Yugoslavian movies, Natalija Stepanović examines images of the Roma community in European culture.

When the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, now the Republic of North Macedonia, declared independence in 1991, a new state emerged but kept many of the habits of its communist past, [...]