Ethnic groups in Europe

The sudden shift will mainly affect Macedonia

The 19th-century exile of Circassians from their Black Sea homeland remains a painful tragedy, said Turkey's president on May 21. 

"On the 157th anniversary of the deportation of our Circassian brothers from their homeland, I feel a great pain in my heart, and I wish Allah's mercy to those who lost their lives," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Twitter.

The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute said on Wednesday that the three victims of the Srebrenica massacres who have been identified will be buried at a collective funeral ceremony alongside 13 others at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in July this year.

Belgrade Higher Court sentenced Dalibor Krstovic to nine years in prison on Thursday for raping a female Bosniak prisoner while she was being detained at an elementary school in the town of Kalinovik during the war in August 1992.

Judge Zorana Trajkovic said that victim was captured with her two children, aged seven and nine, and that she was a "civilian in a helpless position".

The Centre for Nonviolent Action said that activists from the Marking Unmarked Sites of Suffering campaign have put up temporary signs at eight more unmarked war sites in the Herzegovina area of the country as part of efforts to convince the authorities to install permanent memorials at places were people were detained, abused, killed and buried during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s.

Eva is one of hundreds of thousands of Czechs, Hungarians, Poles and Slovaks who, after moving to the UK in search of a better life, more opportunities, adventure and money when EU membership opened the door in 2004, have decided to return home following the UK's 2016 decision to leave the EU, which officially happened in 2020.

Within hours of the announcement, video clips of her, some years' old, were circulating online. Unnoticed and unremarkable until now, suddenly they were problematic, scandalous and offensive.

With the deadline to set up a register of diaspora voters about to expire next week, Albania has missed its chance to ensure around 1.2 million Albanians living abroad can vote in the next general election, which is due in April.

Virtually all Greeks use the internet

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has called on the responsible institutions in Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia to respond promptly to alerts about significant issues confronting Bulgarians in North Macedonia, the Head of State's Press Secretariat said on Monday.