Gojko Veselinovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Municipal elections were held across Bosnia-Herzegovina on October 6. Voting was postponed in areas hit by devastating floods. RFE/RL filmed voters in the capital, Sarajevo, and Banja Luka, which is the administrative center of Bosnia's Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
Residents of Prijedor, in Bosnia, say they are forced to breathe coal dust and smoke from fires at a nearby coal mine. An environmental NGO says the mining company, started operations without the necessary permits. The company did not immediately respond to RFE/RL's request for comment.
Police have cordoned off a school compound in Sanski Most, a town in northwest Bosnia-Herzegovina, after an employee shot dead three of his colleagues on August 21. An investigation is under way to ascertain the motives of the shooter who used an automatic rifle.
More weekend visitors than usual were observed on March 9 outside the Optima Group company's headquarters in Banja Luka as it became a polling station for early voting in Russia's presidential election. The Russian Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina rejected RFE/RL's request to film the voting.
Bosnians living near open-pit coal mines are fearful that vast excavations are destabilizing their land and that digging may be illegally extending under people's property. Mines lay in areas prone to landslides but coal companies maintain they are following Bosnian law..
Organizers of the Chechnya Fest, in a quiet corner of Bosnia-Herzegovina, say there's no harm in promoting a charity event with images of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, accused by rights groups of reigning over egregious torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings.
The ethnically based entities that make up Bosnia-Herzegovina are choosing separate paths to vaccinate their populations, a large segment of which doesn't appear to trust the science anyway.
Bosnians fed up with "hungry" politicians' demands for payments known as "white bread."
By now, much of the world is watching the spiraling crisis in Ukraine, from its bloody street protests to Russia's takeover of Crimea to "protect" its ethnic Russians. But nowhere do the events have greater resonance than in the Balkans, where a similar cauldron of history, ethnicity, and the breakup of a once-great nation led to the devastating wars of the 1990s.
