Ukraine police arrest dozens at tense Victory Day eventsAnniversary of wartime triumph now divides Ukraine and RussiaTue May 09 2017 - 15:05
Ukraine’s Ruslana: From Eurovision to revolution and backMaidan protests still inspire 2004 winner as Kiev prepares to host song contestMon May 08 2017 - 12:15
Ukraine ready to forget woes with spectacular Eurovision partyKiev brushes off Russian boycott and prepares for tens of thousands of visitorsWed May 03 2017 - 12:35
Macedonia’s deadlock continues despite US pressurePresident softens tone after talks, but breakthrough remains elusiveTue May 02 2017 - 17:50
West and Russia at odds over Macedonia after clashes in parliamentRussia says political crisis could spiral into ethnic conflictFri Apr 28 2017 - 17:30
Cyber defenders fight hackers in high-tech Estonia war gamesAttacks on vital systems and fake news are all part of Locked Shields exerciseFri Apr 28 2017 - 01:00
Hungary’s Orban on ‘revenge mission’ against his enemiesMajor street protests posing new challenge for increasingly authoritarian prime ministerMon Apr 24 2017 - 08:30
OSCE monitor killed in separatist-held eastern UkraineMission suffers first fatality when armoured SUV hits landmineSun Apr 23 2017 - 17:05
Ukraine’s anti-corruption drive nets two more ‘big fish’Mykola Martynenko and Sergiy Pereloma reject claims of €16m fraud in uranium dealFri Apr 21 2017 - 18:09
Orban decries foreign meddling in Hungary as protests roll onHungary’s prime minister sees billionaire George Soros behind growing criticismThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:43
Hungary hints at Soros university deal as protests continueThousands return to streets in Budapest against Viktor Orban’s populist governmentThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:40
Slovaks join protest wave rippling through eastern EuropeStudents in the vanguard of rallies against corruption from Russia to RomaniaWed Apr 19 2017 - 15:34
US-Russia relations face a new age of uncertaintyAs during the Reagan era, the Kremlin is unsettled by Trump’s unpredictabilitySat Apr 15 2017 - 02:00
Top banker’s resignation stokes reform fears in UkraineValeria Gontareva the latest moderniser to quit as pace of change slows in KievTue Apr 11 2017 - 15:21
Afghan family seeks Irish refuge from violence and tragedyFatima Bakhshi, who lost her legs in a crash, has medically skilled relatives in IrelandTue Apr 11 2017 - 01:00
Hungary approves law that may close Soros-funded universityPresident Ader signs law despite Sunday's 80,000-strong protestsMon Apr 10 2017 - 19:51
Life in a warehouse: Serbia’s stranded migrants and refugeesDerelict buildings in Belgrade house 1,000 of those forced back from western borderMon Apr 10 2017 - 01:00
Kremlin huffs and puffs over Syria but won’t blow the house downThe spat won’t sabotage US-Russia ties, but it will help Trump show he’s not ‘Putin’s man’Fri Apr 07 2017 - 17:02
Young Serbs vow to stop ‘dictatorship’ of president-elect VucicProtesters in nightly rallies say Serbia is sliding towards authoritarianismThu Apr 06 2017 - 12:58
Eurovision ‘could be hit by withdrawals’ over Ukraine-Russia rowEuropean Broadcasting Union in warning to Kiev over its decision to bar Russian entrantWed Apr 05 2017 - 11:26
Hungary passes law that threatens Soros-funded universityMove seen as part of Orban attack on liberal billionaire behind Central European UniversityTue Apr 04 2017 - 13:23
Serbia election: EU and Russia congratulate Vucic for landslide winCurrent prime minister crushes rivals amid rising geopolitical rivalry in BalkansMon Apr 03 2017 - 15:56
Vucic's opponents cry foul in Serbian presidential votePopulist premier aiming to extend his political dominanceSun Apr 02 2017 - 23:56
Serbian premier Vucic poised to tighten grip on power as presidentComedy candidate could come second in Sunday's electionFri Mar 31 2017 - 16:01
Top Hungarian university threatened in Orban clampdownPressure grows on institutions funded by billionaire liberal George SorosThu Mar 30 2017 - 17:15
Vucic’s domination stokes fears for Serbian democracyPrime minister Aleksandar Vucic poised to become president in Sunday’s electionThu Mar 30 2017 - 01:00
EU urged to act on Hungary’s container camps for asylum seekersAlmost all refugees and migrants now held in spartan border facilities under new measureTue Mar 28 2017 - 16:35
Vladimir Putin backs Serbian premier Aleksandar VucicWest claims Russia increasing its role in political exploitation of tense Balkan statesMon Mar 27 2017 - 19:00
Russian police detain opposition leader at Moscow protestAlexei Navalny arrested at march triggered by corruption charges against prime ministerSun Mar 26 2017 - 19:36
Belarus vows to crush any unrest ahead of major protestRights groups decry crackdown on protesters as anti-government rallies growFri Mar 24 2017 - 16:54
Kremlin denies ordering politician’s murder in UkraineRussian ex-deputy and Putin critic Denis Voronenkov gunned down outside Kiev hotelThu Mar 23 2017 - 16:22
EU warns Macedonia not to ‘play with fire’ on ethnic tensionsScandal-plagued former prime minister urges supporters to ‘defend’ countryWed Mar 22 2017 - 16:09
Ex-Trump aide embroiled in new corruption claims in UkrainePapers allegedly show Paul Manafort tried to hide payments from Viktor YanukovichTue Mar 21 2017 - 17:00
Russia denies planning annexation of eastern UkraineMilitary and economic activity in breakaway regions echoes seizure of CrimeaFri Mar 17 2017 - 16:07
Russia denounces Ukraine's blockade and vows to defend banksEconomic war deepens amid continued fighting with rebels in eastern UkraineThu Mar 16 2017 - 18:14
Ukraine blockade heralds ‘new reality’ in war-torn eastRussian-backed separatists have seized major mines and factories in Donbas regionWed Mar 15 2017 - 17:20
Russia’s choice for Eurovision puts Ukraine on the back footDisabled singer Yulia Samoilova could be banned from Kiev event due to Crimea performanceMon Mar 13 2017 - 15:07
Patriotic protesters blame West for Macedonia’s woesNationalists have been accused of stirring up ethnic tension to evade prosecutionSat Mar 11 2017 - 01:01
US and Nato warn Kosovo against plans to form armyPlan to upgrade security forces comes in response to Russian arms deal with SerbiaThu Mar 09 2017 - 16:34
Hungary under fire for tightening screw on asylum seekers and NGOsPopulist PM Viktor Orban accused of flouting international law and targeting criticsWed Mar 08 2017 - 15:06
Ukraine’s powerful tax chief held in €70 million graft caseActivists say Roman Nasirov is first ‘big fish’ to be targeted in fight against corruptionMon Mar 06 2017 - 16:16
Crisis could ‘set fire’ to Macedonia, warns Social Democrat leaderProtests and president’s refusal to back multi-ethnic government stoke fears of conflictFri Mar 03 2017 - 19:57
Macedonian protesters fear ‘greater Albania’ lurks behind coalition plansEthnic Albanians say proposals could finally end discrimination in Balkan stateFri Mar 03 2017 - 19:00
Russia accuses West of pushing pro-Albanian agenda in MacedoniaMoscow echoes nationalists’ fears of ‘Greater Albania’ as two-year crisis deepensThu Mar 02 2017 - 19:52
Defying blockade, warlords seize industry in eastern UkraineProtesters against smuggling and ‘trade in blood’ block rail tracks crossing the front lineWed Mar 01 2017 - 17:00
Kiev Letter: ‘Ukraine’s Joan of Arc’ divides nationEx-military pilot Nadiya Savchenko considered a hero to some, a traitor to othersWed Mar 01 2017 - 01:00
Hungary builds new border fence as rights groups protestEU urged to stop Hungary tightening rules claimed to contravene obligations to refugeesMon Feb 27 2017 - 14:54
Romanian politicians urged to support anti-graft fightTop prosecutor says her anti-corruption agency backed by huge street protestsFri Feb 24 2017 - 16:00
Serb fury over genocide appeal adds to EU’s Balkan worriesPolitical crises and tense relations still dog region more than 20 years after war’s endThu Feb 23 2017 - 16:59
Central Europe bemoans raw deal from big food firmsSeveral states want EU to ensure products are of equal taste and quality across blocWed Feb 22 2017 - 16:24
