An investigation on the massacre during Moldovan revolution was published just the day before important court case.

Reporters from the Rivne Investigative Reporting Agency took a closer look at the firms offering the loans with an interest rate of 2 to 7 per year and found a smart system, where the firms will get a lot of money from their clients before – if ever – they get any money.

Very few Ukrainians have heard of a company named Livela. But now it’s activities have been brought into daylight of three reporters – Dmytro Hnap, Oleksandr Akymenko and Anna Babinets – from Ukrainska Pravda and Livelas business methods are more than murky.

Construction of a new mining complex cold change Kremenchuk region into an ecological disaster area. This story is not intended as an attack on mining complexes in Ukraine. Its aim is to inform the population of Kremenchuk region about the obvious and possible consequences of such activities.

Dissatisfied with the slow and inefficient justice before domestic courts, Macedonian citizens often seek justice in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Businessmen, politicians, farmers, single mothers, senior men and women, even judges seek justice outside the state...

You shouldn’t believe it in a dictatorship: Designer drugs are advertised on the internet, delivered to your home in less than an hour and are – mostly – not forbidden.

Computer criminal, which is most directly related to making and use of false cards, has been increasing in Macedonia. In the first nine months of 2010, 34 acts of damaging and illegal entering a computer system were detected in the country, as well as nine acts of making and use of false credit cards; four acts of making, supplying or alienating assets for forgery and one act of computer forgery and issuing an overdrawn check and misuse of official card.

Almost every country distorts its statistical data a bit in order to present more favorable economy conditions. The problem is that statistical deceit can to a great extent contribute a country to lead itself to bankruptcy without citizens and institutions noticing it. Some domestic and foreign economic experts say this might have been happening in the macedonian economy for years.

Everywhere in the world hunting is profitable for the countries themselves, but in Macedonia it is the opposite, so only individuals profit from hunting, at the expense of the country. Accidental murders among friends, hunting out of season and political relations in order to obtain a concession for hunting grounds are just part of the chaos.

Growing marijuana is becoming a new agricultural branch in Macedonia. This is not a novelty in the country, but it used to be a few isolated cases and the drug was intended for personal use, very rarely for sale. However, in the past few years several plantations were discovered, aimed at meeting the needs of the domestic narco-market.

Everybody thought, the new owners were guilty of the bankrupcy of the Dorhobych Chisel Plant. But Informator's reporter dug deeper and found the guilty guys...

The World Health Organization estimates that 6-7 Ukrainians will die every day due to wrong or missing treatment by doctors and other medical staff. Another 20 will every day become disabled. But authorities turn their back to the problem and only in very few cases a doctor will face any kind of punishment.

A great cover up at the customs in Lviv in Ukraine has distracted media and public from the what is really going on: a ‘war’ for the power to continue corruption and accept bribes.

The European Commission closed the valet after finding out that funds for NGOs were distributed for family members. In order to regain confidence, the Commission required an investigation of the allocation crimes. However, the audit report announced by the Minister for Education, Nikola Todorov, is not finished yet.

Subordinated beggars are transported to the best ‘begging spots’ in luxury cars in the morning and brought back in the evening. After that the money is shared, but the people in the street get only a small percentage.

Kosovo can be self sustainable in electric energy with the actual existing capacity. Despite this for the last ten years there was continuous black outs and especially villages are left up to 6 hours without electricity. Probably because of intentional mismanagement and corruption.

Confectionery products from Serbia are up to 50 per cent cheaper in Macedonia. The same goes for meat products.

Some years ago an old mine in Ukraine stopped working and now there is a beautiful small seaside – the “Blue Lake”. Every summer the Blue Lake is a favourite resort for people living in the area. To nobody’s surprise local businessmen have seen a chance to earn money. Not at all legally...

In Georgia the police fabricate criminal cases against members of the oppositional political party. This story illustrates how they planted a firearm in the wardrobe of an opposition member’s little child. This practice was wide spread and documented by the media during the previous regime of Shevardnadze, so things may have not changed since then.

After the war between Georgia and Russia in the region of Gori, inhabitants were promised full rehabilitation of their houses. But apparently not all of the about 111 million USD of public funds and international money was spent on this purpose. And the houses are definitely not all rebuilt.

Zagreb Radio 101 was for decades considered to be a medium that speaks without compromise on corruption and other social anomalies. But as it seems within their walls they were ran completely contrary to that policy.

Forgotten electrical outlets have turned out to be very expensive for citizens of the Ukrainian city Nikolaev - and a goldmine for the local power distribution company, Nikolaevoblenergo. Inspectors from the company are fining residents of apartments systematically, and some residents have even had to sell their apartments to pay the fines.

For less than 3 euro you can buy a synthetic bunny, a small doll and a plastic fish at the Skopje markets. But, without any declaration or warning about the age that children should have to play with them. No one can certainly guarantee that children have safe toys in their hands.

In old vehicles without number plates, in refrigerator trucks..These are the ways how smuggled firewood is being transported to the homes of the citizens...In this way, someone puts in 12 million euros in his pocket a year at the expense of the state.

Hundreds of macedonian students are being ignored during the distribution of students’ beds in student residence halls in the country. Thus students without any incomes in the family and with high average in studying, complain they have been turned down and have not got a place to stay in students’ dormitories. Their only explanation is that if you want a bed you must be a member of the governing party.

It is unknown exactly how many artifacts are missing in Macedonia, but it is assumed that during the transition period, around 100.000 exhibits of various sizes and materials were expropriated. The damage can’t be even imagined.

There is a lot of prostitution, human trafficking and shooting of pornography In Ukraine. The reporters Marina Karabay and Igor Zaykovatyy from the newspaper REAL in the town of Vinnytsya used seven months to investigate this phenomenon, but didn’t manage to catch the criminals red-handed.

War veterans in Bosnia & Herzegovina seem to grow in number... This is why municipalities suspect that fraud is going on in terms of acquisition of medical documentation.

Ratings of Macedonia in the field of animal and plant protection aren’t high. Laws exist, but a red list of endangered species doesn’t. According to ecologists, the progress in this field has never been a priority to this country and the budget meant for this purpose has always been ridiculous.

A taped conversation on “Youtube” caused many controversies in Macedonia. That was a conversation between a manager of a night club and a director of the State market inspectorate, Saso Akimovski, threatening that he will fine another night bar and close it down. No wonder that right after this, the director Akimovski was fired.

Every day, dozens of heavy vehicles laden with freshly harvested timber drive down the slopes of Feza Mountain in northern Albania towards the northern city of Shkodra. Corruption and incompetence prevent official crackdown on illegal trade that is degrading the environment in the mountainous north.

Gjergj Bojaxhiu,who runs the Albanian Energy Corporation, says that the corporation is now being managed in a serious manner, trying to build it according to principles of the market. And one of the things he is asking is to increase the price of electricity so that the service cost would match the price…

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.” This quote from Bob Hope, the US comedian, fits into what goes on in Albania.

HIV-infected and people with AIDS symptoms are obliged to pay for the services that should be offered them for free. The health services in Albania have enabled this abuse, which makes some groups make money out of this group of people.

In Croatia, where breeding of horses is part of a national program for conservation of domestic animals, a falsification of grades for the horses has been discovered - including trading in government subsidies, spending 30 million kunas on a non-existent database, and disregard for the health of the horses...

The rich amounts of water in the Balkans is not only a source of life but also a constant reason for corruption and wars - read the fascinating investigations by Aleksandar Pisarev on the topic here.

Since April 2006, Macedonia has had a Law on Donations and sponsorships, which should stimulate citizens to stand for humanitarian and socially useful purposes. However, according to experts, the law does not work and must be changed.

Millions of tax payers’ euros a year end up in the accounts of the agencies for employment, while thousands of people suffer from this business, lawful in terms of the activities of agencies but with numerous violations in terms of respect of the laws governing labor relations. The part where more law violations are made is the excess of time limits that define the duration of employment.

Visa liberalization is used by travel agencies and illegal managers to make lucrative businesses with the Roma population in Macedonia. They offer to them job, status of assailant and better life abroad in EU states and make them pay up to 600 euros for this „favor”. Around 500 Roma families from Kumanovo accepted the offer.

The Ministry of Health allocated one million denars last year for the first time – and it did not spend that money. The Ministry of Culture had a budget for Roma non-government organizations. No one applied and the money was returned to the budget. The Transport and Communications sector received 3.5 million denars last year. Fecal sewage on two streets and one public toilet was the aid for Roma from this Ministry last year.

“Topilnica Veles” was the largest capacity for lead and zinc in former Yugoslavia with the capacity for producing 65,000 tons of zinc and 35,000 tons of lead per year whereas the entire production was exported. But it was closed due to bad management and lack of vision of the political elites…

The local authorities in Mykolaiv is out of control in regards to killing pets and illegal practicies are being used by the citys Housing and Communal Services department . There are even cases when dogs were killed by neighbors, but the police usually refused to investigate the cases thoroughly and open criminal cases.

From mid-November 1991 to late February 1992, more than 400 Croatian civilians and soldiers were imprisoned in a camp in Nis, where at least one person died. Three former prisoners told Scoop's reporter they personally experienced brutal treatment in the Nis detention camp.

Accidents, crowded trains, broken doors, smelling toilets.This is life for passengers in Macedonian trains. There are almost no investments in macedonian railway. Still people choose to travel by train because tickets are cheap.

In the emergency room of a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Dniepropetrovsk the doctors used patients for clinical trials. Without informing the patients and/or their relatives. So in one case the life of a well-known citizen was not saved but lost. Ukrainian patients are popular guinea-pigs for leading pharmaceutical companies from all over the world: They are cheap. Very cheap.

During the cold winters heating inside the houses becomes important. But while trying to make it easier for citizens to obtain an individual heating system, the authorities gave the monopoly to a company closely associated with top ciy officials...

In Ukrainian city of Luhansk the citizens often complain about the expensive medicial services. This investigation shows that the exagerated prices are due to very close relations between politicians and business men.

The two biggest mines in eastern Macedonia, “Buchim” and “Sasa”, are a great threat to citizens living in Eastern Macedonia. Inhabitants of the village of Topolnica, near the city Radovish, complain that they have not had clean drinking water for decades.

Maybe Macedonian composers write songs which turn out to be evergreens and hits that will be listened to forever. But this will not make them rich. Even if the law on copyright and related rights says that electronic media are obligated to submit a list of played works, the composers recieve nothing. And if the electronic media state that a song was played 100 times instead of 1.000 times, there is no way to check it.

Private agencies for housing and services are mushrooming in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. They turn out not to be that private but very well connected with city officials and their offspring. Take a look at the findings by reporters Oleg Oganov and Yaroslav Chepurnoy.