Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History

Sources for Current Balkan News in English

During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, many readers visiting this Web site were looking for news sources that originated in the Balkan region and reflected Balkan views. Naturally, those same sources continue news coverage of all kinds.

Because Balkan news is often controversial, readers may wish to sample sources from varied perspectives:

• The following are links to Balkan or Southeast European news media, for English language readers. Most were identified from source lists like 'Newslinks' (until it went offline in 2003), the World Press Review gateway, or the Internet Public Library. They are at least partially in English and have connected well in tests. Even so, these sites can be slow to load, and sometimes crash. I have not found English-language online news sources for Bosnia-Hercegovina or Montenegro.
  • Albania: Albanian Daily News, and Tirana Times.
  • Bulgaria: Novinite.com; Bulgarian News Network; and Sofia Echo. The content from Capital Weekly seems to have stalled in March 2006 but the backfile remains.
  • Croatia: Digests from HINA News Agency.
  • Greece: Athens News Agency and Kathimerini.
  • Hungary: Budapest Sun and Budapest Business Journal.
  • Macedonia: the state news outlet Macedonian Information Agency reprints stories from other media (choose "English").
  • Moldova: Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review.
  • Romania: Nine O'Clock, and The Diplomat (monthly).
  • Serbia: Blic Online seems to have lost the "English" option.
  • Slovenia: Slovenia Times, and Slovenian Business Report.
  • Turkey: Turkish Daily News, Anadolu Ajansi (choose "English"), and Ihlas Haber Ajansi (choose "English").
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty provides current news about the Balkans, the rest of Eastern Europe, and the successor states of the former Soviet Union. Features include the daily NewsLine, and audio access to RFE/RL broadcasts (the twice-weekly Balkan Report hasn't been updated since late 2006, but still shows the archive back to 1997). Some content is available in Balkan languages. RFE/RL is "a private, international communications service ... funded by the US Congress" while pursuing an independent editorial stance.
• Southeast European Times is a service of the U. S. Army's European Command (EUCOM): the "News Archive" provides English translations of selected stories from Balkan media sources.
• Central Europe Online has some Balkan coverage.
• The BBC World Service on the Web includes a European desk covering the Balkans.
• Central Europe Online has some Balkan coverage.
• For historical rather than current news texts, Rutgers University supports online access to an English translation of Vreme NDA (News Digest Agency) covering 1991-1997. Vreme (published in Serbian) remains Serbia's leading independent newsmagazine.
• If you read French, Association francaise d'etudes sur les Balkans provides links to Web resources including media, and Le Courrier des Balkans posts French translations of stories from a variety of sources.

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Last updated: 4 November 2008

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