Kosovo Serbs brace for election in long shadow of political violence (The Irish Times)
Belgrade shields suspect in critic’s murder as its allies in Kosovo are accused of dirty tricks In death, as in life, Oliver Ivanovic is at the troubled heart of Kosovo Serb politics. Twenty months after he was gunned down in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica, his legacy as a Serb moderate who criticised Belgrade […]
Read More →IFIMES: Kosovo 2019 early parliamentary election: Citizens want political changes (rimse.rg)
The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. IFIMES has prepared an analysis of the current political situation in Kosovo in the light of the early parliamentary election scheduled for 6 October 2019. The most relevant and interesting sections from the […]
Read More →‘Islamic State’ returnees in Kosovo guided back into society (DW)
Thousands of foreign ‘IS’ supporters are held in Kurdish camps in Syria. Most European countries refuse to repatriate them, but Kosovo is bringing its citizens home. DW met with one female returnee under house arrest. Mensur Hoti chain smokes. In a cafe in the Kosovar capital, Pristina, the country’s director of public security reveals the […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Abandoned ‘Ghost Villages’, a Black Legacy of Conflict (Balkan Insight)
After many Serbs fled their homes in the violent aftermath of the Kosovo war in 1999, some villages in the country are now almost completely deserted, with poor economic conditions deterring most people from returning. See at:https://bit.ly/2o6bVCh
Read More →Kosovo pol brands himself Trump’s biggest fan to try to win election (New York Post)
A Kosovo politician who once met President Trump is now trying to parlay the photo op into an election victory for himself. Kadri Veseli, a candidate for prime minister in the tiny Balkan state, took a photo with Trump at a Washington, DC, event in 2017 — and is plastering the image up all over […]
Read More →Kosovo’s fate in the Western Balkans will determine the future stability of Europe (Euronews)
As a parliamentary candidate in Kosovo’s October elections, I am standing to bring the voices of the marginalised, young people, women and minorities to the forefront of the political agenda. But as a member of parliament, I also wish to correct spurious narratives about Kosovo which are halting its progress towards EU integration. Snap elections […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Five Would-be Prime Ministers (Balkan Insight)
With days to go before snap parliamentary elections are held in Kosovo on October 6, the decision of the five main candidates to run separately has left the race wide open. Acombination of old and new political faces are on the “menu” for voters in Kosovo on 6 October when they cast ballots for a […]
Read More →FIFA Backing for ‘Illegal’ Match Angers Kosovo Football Chief (Balkan Insight)
The Kosovo Football Federation, FFK, has expressed fury over a letter from the world football body FIFA, calling on it to lift a ban on a planned match that it insists is “illegal” in the Serb-run north of Kosovo. The KFF does not want the top Serbian team Belgrade Red Star playing an unregistered team […]
Read More →In Kosovo, Roma’s recycling work is unsung, underpaid (AFP)
As the sun rises over Pristina, the Maksutis and their six children fan out across the capital to scour garbage bins for bits of plastic and metal, part of an invisible army doing the dirty work of recycling in Kosovo. “We start at 7:00 am and we are out by the containers all day,” says […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Abandoned ‘Ghost Villages’, A Bleak Legacy of Conflict (Balkan Insight)
After many Serbs fled their homes in the violent aftermath of the Kosovo war in 1999, some villages in the country are now almost completely deserted, with poor economic conditions deterring most people from returning. Walking along an overgrown path through Zhakova/Zakovo, a small village nestled in the pastoral landscape of western Kosovo, few sights […]
Read More →First Albanian-Serbian Online Dictionary Launched in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
A free online Albanian-Serbian dictionary was launched in Pristina in an attempt to ease communication between Kosovo’s two largest ethnic communities, who rarely learn each other’s language. The online dictionary, which was published on Thursday in Pristina, contains 40,000 words and was presented as a tool for young Kosovo Albanians and Serbs to learn other’s […]
Read More →Kosovo Artists Use Culture to Promote Justice and Peace (Balkan Insight)
Artists and cultural activists from Kosovo have been using their work to address the traumas of the wartime past – but collaborations with Serbian artists intended to bridge post-war divides have sometimes sparked angry reactions. Milica Djurdjevic of the far-right Serbian political organisation Zavetnici was angry. Djurdjevic was addressing a protest rally in May in […]
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