Balkans

Mississippi State University anthropologist Anna Osterholtz contributed to a study in Cell, providing key data from ancient Roman burial sites. The research, involving a multidisciplinary team, analyzed genomic data from the Balkan region, uncovering significant demographic shifts and the influx of Slavic-speaking populations during the Migration Period.A new study reveals major demographic changes in the Balkan region during the first millennium, including the migration of Slavic-speaking populations after the fall of…

Do Kwon has pleaded not guilty to charges he faked passports and tried to leave Montenegro. He’s facing even more serious charges in both the U.S. and South Korea.Photo: Risto Bozovic (AP)It turns out that Do Kwon, the man whose Terra stablecoin led to a $40 billion loss in the crypto industry, won’t get out of jail for a few hundred thousand dollars. On Wednesday, a Montenegrin court nixed an earlier deal to give Kwon bail, meaning the man will have to remain in jail while awaiting trial over allegations he tried to skip…

Five years ago, researchers from across Europe converged on a cold, fast-moving river in the highlands of Albania for a week of intensive fieldwork. Their mission: to kick off a multiyear effort to assemble a detailed ecological portrait of the Vyosa River, one of Eastern Europe’s last free-flowing waterways. They hoped to draw public attention to the river’s rich wildlife and persuade policymakers to protect it from a cascade of proposed dams. Earlier this month, that effort paid…