Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...

A group of Czech citizens has declared a new state, the Free Republic of Liberland, in a tiny 6-square-kilometer territory along the Danube River between Croatia and the Republic of Serbia. The ...

A robust new study investigating brain activity patterns in schizophrenia patients and their siblings is suggesting a specific brain “signature” could detect the condition in subjects before clinical ...

Behind Edi Rama’s announcement of a Vatican-type ‘microstate’ for the Bektashi movement in Tirana, some critics of his rule see a bid to distract attention from domestic scandals and win more ...

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama wants to transform the Bektashi World Centre into a place of moderation, tolerance and peaceful coexistence. (AFP pic) Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim ...

Nation-building is arduous work. Microstate-building, maybe less so. But don't tell that to the libertarian architect of a seven-year campaign to further subdivide the tempestuous Balkans by turning a ...

Selling for US$105,000 each, Nauru plans to drum up more than US$5 million in the first year of the ‘climate resilience citizenship’ programme. A remote Pacific nation has started selling passports to ...

In 1960, San Marino—a microstate in the middle of Italy, not far from the Adriatic Sea—made its Olympic debut in Rome. Nine citizens competed: all men, mostly shooters and cyclists. None won a medal, ...

Ever heard of the ‘Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order’? You most likely haven’t, at least not yet. But if all goes to plan, it will soon become the world’s ...