The issue of national identity is taken seriously by Balkan people – including the least serious among them.
Investigations
Skull found in mass grave
Investigation: Son's Search For Father Uncovers Albanian Mass Grave
Tirana | 09 February 2010 | By Gjergj Erebara
Years after the collapse of the Stalinist regime, many families of Albanians executed by the communists are still desperately looking for the bodies of their relatives.
Pristina hospital
BIRN Probe Uncovers Holes in Kosovo Health Service
Pristina | 14 January 2010 | By Petrit Collaku
Investigation sheds light on corrupt practice of doctors referring patients to their own clinics for treatment, emergency centres left unstaffed, broken equipment and unequal deployment of specialists.
Investigation: Fields of Terror – the New Slave Trade in the Heart of Europe
| 27 December 2009 | By Adrian Mogos in Holland and Ukraine, Petru Zoltan, Doru Cobuz in Czech Republic and Romania, Vitalie Călugăreanu in Moldova, Transnistria and Ukraine and Vlad Lavrov in UkrainePoor people are being lured from Eastern Europe to the Czech Republic for forced labour. Some of the worst gangsters are now on trial but there is no sign of this evil trade coming to an end.
Illegal Logging Ravages Albania's Forests
Shkodra and the Gegaj Valley | 16 December 2009 | By Elvis NabolliCorruption and incompetence prevent official crackdown on illegal trade that is degrading the environment in the mountainous north.
Forged Identity – highway to EU
Bucharest, Dobrych, Byala, Timisoara, Aachen and Berlin | 15 October 2009 | By Adrian MogosFake identity cards can easily be obtained in Romania and Bulgaria, and many illegal migrants use them to reach Western Europe
Shadow of Fraud Hangs over Kosovo Autumn Poll
Pristina | 07 September 2009 | By Lawrence Marzouk and Mia Marzouk
The building that served as a KLA prison at the factory compound in Kukes
KLA Ran Torture Camps in Albania
Kukes, Bajram Curri, Tropoja, Kruma, Prizren, Pristina and Tirana | 09 April 2009 | By Altin Raxhimi, Michael Montgomery and Vladimir Karaj
The Kosovo Liberation Army maintained a network of prisons in their bases in Albania and Kosovo during and after the conflict of 1999, eyewitnesses allege. Only now are the details of what occurred there emerging.
Girl in front of her demolished house in Jale
EXCLUSIVE- World Bank Demolished Albania Village
| 05 February 2009 | By Besar Likmeta and Gjergj Erebara in Tirana
A World Bank project meant to safeguard Albania’s coastal zones was used to selectively demolish parts of a village in southern Albania and leave many families homeless, according to an internal report , which additionally notes allegations of corruption and efforts by World Bank officials to cover up the events .
Wind Farm Threatens Albanian Paradise
| 01 December 2008 | By Besar Likmeta and Gjergj Erebara in Tirana
Continent's potentially biggest onshore wind-farm could wreak havoc with unspoiled coastline - and may be breaking the law.
Kosovo Stunned by Alleged German role in Blast
| 01 December 2008 | By Krenar Gashi and BIRN team in Pristina
Claims that German intelligence officers took part in bombing of EU building in Pristina have surprised Kosovars, while motives remain unclear.
