Miran Jelenek is a camera operator at the Sarajevo bureau of RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
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.
The "Brave and Proud" workshop was set up as a support group for women who survived being raped during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. The women design and make slippers, prayer mats, bags, and other handicrafts.
Dzebrail Bajramovic, a veteran of Bosnia-Herzegovina's war of the early 1990s, is dedicated to helping locate some of the thousands of victims who remain missing. He cooperates with local officials to gather information on victims' whereabouts from people who fought on opposing sides of the war.
Aerial crews are battling fires in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including a week-old inferno in the inaccessible Zelengora mountain range. Centuries-old trees and more than 150 hectares have been lost. Near Sarajevo, fire crews battle two other burns, racing against time during a hot, summer drought.
Bosnia-Herzegovina's Vjetrenica Cave was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in July -- but its unique features and cool breezes were known even to the ancient Greeks. Remains of a prehistoric cave bear and a leopard species were found here, and more than 200 other life forms still thrive.
Hundreds marched on June 22 through the center of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the fifth Pride parade in the country's history. Bosnia is a multicultural country, but conservative views prevail on gay rights.
The "Wartime Love" project tells the story of couples who met during the Siege of Sarajevo. RFE/RL spoke to Sanela and Emir Klaic, one of the couples who feature in the exhibition, whose wedding photo from the war-torn city featured on magazines around the world at the time.
Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Both countries are home to public memorials honoring leaders convicted of war crimes, but it's the activists who protest against those displays who face repercussions.
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.
A rally has urged an end to hydroelectric projects on the Neretva River. Demonstrators gathered in the Bosnian city of Konjic on November 11 to protest the construction of the Ulog dam in Bosnia's Serb entity, Republika Srpska, by the Chinese state-owned Sinohydro company.
Bosnian honey is losing some of its luster as scammers put additives into their harvests. With honey production way down owing to bee population crashes, producers are getting creative with syrups and other impurities that end up in honey for sale. Meanwhile, quality control is weak.
Despite repeatedly filing domestic violence reports to police and social services, Alma Kadic was killed by her husband in front of their 4-year-old daughter in July 2021 in Sarajevo. Her husband, Eldin Hodzic, was finally sentenced to 35 years in prison in April of this year.
When a senior policeman in Bosnia and Herzegovina was caught on camera threatening to rip a journalist's throat out, it focused attention on the intimidation and violence faced by journalists in the country.
Suhra Malic has buried her son's recently discovered skull at the Potocari national memorial to the victims of the Srebrenica massacre on the 27th anniversary of the genocide. The 86-year-old lost two sons at Srebrenica.
