“Crimea is no Kosovo, we didn’t come and grab it” (Sputnik)
Vladimir Putin said that Crimea is not Russian because the Russians came and “grabbed something.” Instead it is Russian “because the population only through a referendum asked to be received in Russia,” he said. “Crimea is ours… Why is it ours? Not because we came and grabbed something,” Putin said at a meeting of the […]
Read More →“Crimea is Russia; Kosovo is Serbia” – Russian ambassador (B92, Politika, Blic)
Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin has announced the possibility of his country getting “even more deeply involved” in resolving the Kosovo problem, Serbian media quoted Belgrade based daily Politika. In an op-ed for the Belgrade newspaper Politika published on Tuesday – and penned on the occasion of Russia’s Statehood Day – Chepurin said that Belgrade is, […]
Read More →Pushkov: US to explain how they ripped Kosovo from Serbia with missiles (Serbian media)
I suggest the State Department, instead of announcement about Crimea, to explain how they ripped Kosovo from the state of Serbia without referendum, with bombs and missiles, wrote Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov on his twitter, reports Serbian media. He reminded that Crimea was Russian at a time when America did not exist. He commented the […]
Read More →Czech president vows not to send ambassador in Pristina (B92)
The President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman has spoken decisively against Catalonia’s independence, as it would “open Pandora’s box and start a chain reaction,” Serbian media reported. “Today Catalonia, tomorrow northern Italy, the day after Scotland, after that the Basque Country, because ETA would also want it. The following week Moravia; in Slovakia, the […]
Read More →Zeman on double standards in case of Kosovo (BETA, RTS)
Czech President, Milos Zeman assessed Russian annexation of Crimea as completed act and proposed that Russia pays compensation to Ukraine for the lost territory, either financially or with raw material, BETA news agency reported. Zeman again said Kosovo is an example of double standards, Serbian media reported. During debate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the […]
Read More →Zeman: Double standards in cases of Crimea and Kosovo (Tanjug, RTS)
While the referendum in Crimea was an annexation, it is alright when Kosovo becomes independent, contrary to the UN SC Resolution, Czech President, Milos Zeman said, Serbian media reported. “I have criticized Kosovo’s secession from Serbia, considering it as an obvious violation of the UN SC Resolution that guarantees the territorial integrity of Serbia with […]
Read More →“We’ve been redrawing borders too – think of Kosovo” (B92, Sputnik)
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon mentioned the issue of Kosovo when he spoke about Crimea joining Russia. “We have changed borders ourselves. Kosovo, for example. We think that because we are westerners everything is allowed to us – we can enter Iraq, we can bring order to any corner of the world… There is a […]
Read More →Headlines 20 January
EU on a mission to save Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (Koha Ditore)
Merkel requests meeting between Kosovo and Serbia (Gazeta Metro)
Dikovic: KFOR guarantees security in Kosovo (Koha)
Vucic rejects parallels between Kosovo and Crimea (Klan Kosova)
Apostolova: Corruption remains a serious concern (Epoka e Re)
Opening of the Iber River bridge planned for tomorrow, postopned (Lajmi)
Kurti tells why teargas is not being used at the Assembly (Gazeta Metro)
Seven convicted for terrorist activity (Zëri)
Headlines 17 January
• Thaci: Serbia planning to annex the north of Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
• Mustafa: Dialogue will not stop (VOA)
• Mogherini with a message for Kosovo and Serbia (Gazeta Metro)
• NATO: Kosovo police can go to north without KFOR permission (Kosova Sot)
• Hoxhaj: Kosovo will respond to Serbia’s aggresion (RTK)
• “Serbia’s provocations should alarm international community” (Epoka)
• AAK: Train was part of plan to reoccupy Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
• Vetevendosje presents forensic results from Assembly attack case (Koha)
• Government invites opposition experts for border demarcation (Indeksonline)
Ukraine’s ambassador to Serbia: Why are you doing this? (B92, Blic)
Ukraine’s Ambassador in Belgrade Oleksandr Aleksandrovych says Serbia’s vote against a UN resolution on Crimea “could return like a boomerang.” “There’s an English expression – ‘to shoot yourself in the foot’. I believe that is exactly what Serbia has done with such a vote, because at some point in the future, such a decision may […]
Read More →“West can honor will of people in Kosovo, but not in Crimea” (B92)
Vladimir Putin has said that the West negates the right of the people to self-determination in Crimea, while referring to it in the case of Kosovo. The Russian president spoke for Bloomberg when he said that “nothing can be done against the will of the people,” but that “it seems that some of our partners […]
Read More →“Enough about Crimea – let’s consider Kosovo, Libya, Iraq” (B92)
Russia’s partners in the West should pay attention to NATO’s 1999 bombing of Serbia, to Kosovo, and the breakup of Libya, “and not just to Crimea.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made this statement on Tuesday, TASS reported. “Concerning international law and the attention that it has received lately, primarily in relation to Crimea, we […]
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