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.
- 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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