Index/Locations/Balkans

Balkans

Geopolitical and cultural region of Southeast Europe

Fact-Checks

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Dec 9, 2025
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How many Muslims live in Europe in 2025 and how has this changed since 2000?

Most reputable recent estimates place Europe's Muslim population near 45–46 million in 2025, roughly 6% of the continent, up from about 19.5–24.9 million (3.8–5%) around 2000–2010 depending on definit...

Jan 27, 2026
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How likely are we to witness a world war 3

Global indicators and expert surveys point to meaningful—but not imminent—risk of a large interstate war that could involve major powers; analysts place conditional probabilities for such escalation i...

Nov 14, 2025
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Which European cities have the largest Muslim populations and what are their demographic profiles?

Paris (and its wider metropolitan area) is repeatedly named in available reporting as the single European city-area with the largest Muslim population — Pew/INSEE-based summaries put Paris metro Musli...

Jan 27, 2026

How did historians compile country-by-country estimates of Jewish losses during the Holocaust?

Historians build country-by-country Holocaust loss estimates by piecing together prewar population data, records, survivor registers and , then reconciling conflicting sources through statistical meth...

Nov 18, 2025

Which European city has the highest percentage of Muslim residents relative to its total population?

Available reporting does not name a single European city as definitively having the highest percentage of Muslim residents; instead, sources point to Muslim-majority countries and metropolitan areas w...

Nov 14, 2025

how has religion been abused in political advancements

Political actors have repeatedly co‑opted religion as a tool to mobilize followers, justify policies, and marginalize opponents; this phenomenon appears across contexts from the Balkans and Syria to c...

Jan 26, 2026

historical list of expulsion of muslims

A recurrent theme across centuries is the , exile or coerced assimilation of Muslim populations amid conquests, nation‑building and religious intolerance; prominent episodes include the medieval and t...

Oct 22, 2025

How does the Muslim population in Europe compare to the Jewish population?

Europe’s Muslim population is currently measured in the and projected to grow toward roughly , driven by migration and higher fertility rates, while the Jewish population in Europe is estimated at fro...

Dec 10, 2025

Russian disinformation

Russian disinformation in 2024–25 is a coordinated, multi‑vector campaign that uses state media, proxy websites, Telegram channels, and sophisticated technical tools to target Europe, the Americas and...

Nov 23, 2025

What ties has Jared Kushner had to real estate projects in Crimea?

Available reporting in the provided sources does not link Jared Kushner or his firms to any real estate projects in Crimea; instead the coverage documents Kushner-linked projects in the Balkans (Serbi...

Nov 20, 2025

Have international courts or human rights groups issued findings on organ trafficking linked to Israel?

Reporting and advocacy groups have repeatedly alleged that Palestinian bodies returned by Israeli authorities showed signs of missing organs or surgical cuts; these claims date back decades and resurf...

Feb 2, 2026

Is Theo Savov Jewish?

No reliable reporting in the provided sources identifies the religious affiliation of any specific person named “,” and there is no evidence here that he is ; available surname research indicates Savo...

Jan 26, 2026

R1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2 which population scores the highest in this halogroup/subclade

The precise label 1a1b1a1a1c2b2 does not appear in the supplied reporting, so the sources cannot identify which modern population “scores the highest” for that exact subclade; however, the broader in ...

Jan 26, 2026

Šokčević family? Where does the name came from and it's origins? And, why does it do what it does

There are no provided primary or secondary sources specifically about the surname in the supplied reporting, so definitive claims about that family’s unique genealogy cannot be made from these materia...

Nov 14, 2025

Which European city has the highest percentage of Muslim residents?

Available sources show different ways to interpret “which European city has the highest percentage of Muslim residents” — by absolute numbers Paris (and its metro area) is repeatedly listed as having ...

Nov 12, 2025

Does the Democrats' continuing resolution include funding for LGBTQ programs in 2025?

The available materials do not establish that the Democrats’ 2025 continuing resolution explicitly includes broad domestic funding for LGBTQ programs; the supplied analyses show only a narrow mention ...

Nov 12, 2025

Did the LGBTQ funding amendment survive in the final continuing resolution?

The evidence in the supplied analyses shows that the specific anti‑LGBTQ funding riders introduced in House appropriations measures did not survive into the final continuing resolution; key hostile am...

Nov 9, 2025

foreign add added into democrat bill

Congress advanced and ultimately enacted a roughly national security supplemental that included , with Democratic lawmakers playing a decisive role in moving the package forward and the president sign...

Nov 9, 2025

With respect to the 2025 budget whose claims are more factually, correct the Republican side or the Democrat side

The fact checks and nonpartisan analyses show about the 2025 budget, but on core measurable points — notably the projected spike in health-care costs if enhanced ACA subsidies lapse and the budgetary ...

Oct 24, 2025

Trump ending 7 wars

Donald Trump’s repeated claim that he “ended seven wars” (sometimes stated as eight) compresses complex, ongoing diplomatic situations into a simple tally that . Contemporary reporting shows he has be...