Andi Mioc is a multimedia producer for RFE/RL's Balkan Service in Sarajevo.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is beginning to recover from deadly floods. At least 19 people have died and several are missing in the biggest inundation the Western Balkan country has seen in decades. Road and rail traffic has been disrupted in parts of central Bosnia.
Flooding caused by heavy rainstorms in central and southern Bosnia-Herzegovina has killed at least 19 people, officials said on October 4. In addition to the confirmed dead, many others are missing or injured.
Austria's far-right, anti-immigration Freedom Party won the country's parliamentary elections on September 29. It's the first far-right victory in a national election in postwar Austria. RFE/RL's Andi Mioc was in Vienna, where opposition supporters expressed concern over the Freedom Party's victory.
Austria's far-right, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO) holds a narrow lead over the conservative OVP in the run-up to the country's September 29 general election. The vote comes amid growing concerns in the migrant community over the FPO's agenda, which includes deporting migrants.
Austrian voters this weekend could make Herbert Kickl’s anti-immigrant Freedom Party the first far-right grouping to win an election there since World War II. Immigrants in the capital, Vienna, told RFE/RL that they’re “very scared.”
Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) held its final pre-election rally ahead of the parliamentary vote amid opposition protests in Vienna. The FPO holds a narrow lead going into the election on September 29. RFE/RL spoke with FPO supporters and demonstrators who came to protest the far-right.
Police in Sarajevo have begun wearing body cameras and turned to Hytera, a leading Chinese manufacturer blacklisted by the United States for data issues and industrial espionage. RFE/RL reports that local officials ignored warnings from the United States, the EU, and Canada in selecting the company.
The remains of 14 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre were buried as Bosnia-Herzegovina marked the 29th anniversary of the genocide. The youngest to be laid to rest on July 11 was Beriz Mujic, who was only 17 at the time of the killings.
A right-wing Serbian politician, blacklisted by Kyiv for his anti-Ukrainian activities, has been linked to Viktor Medvedchuk, the Kremlin-friendly former Ukrainian businessman and alleged funder of Voice of Europe, a Russian disinformation site recently hit by Czech sanctions.
People in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradacac expressed outrage after a bodybuilder killed his ex-wife and live streamed it before committing suicide on August 11. She had previously reported him for violent threats and acts -- but her request for a restraining order was rejected by a court.
