OSCE Broadcast 6 February
• Clashes between protesters and police in front of UP Rectorate building (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Assembly doesn’t approve LDK recommendations on UP (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Jacobson: Modalities for Serbian parliamentary elections are being prepared (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• CEC draws lottery for north Mitrovica/Mitrovicë elections (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Prosecutor requests 30 day detention for Rugova and others (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Clientelism threatening good governance in Kosovo municipalities (RTK1)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 6 February
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Drecun: Arrests are destabilizing the situation (B92)
• One-month detention for Delibasic (Politika)
• Serb returnees in Klina seek protection (Radio Serbia)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Sorensen: There is a mechanism for forcing politicians to agreement (EuroBlic)
• Izetbegovic lodged protest with Serbian Ambassador to B&H (Fena)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Satirical Video of Serbia’s Vucic Sparks Copyright Row (BIRN)
• Bosnia Croat parties unite before elections (Journal of Turkish Weekly)
• Croatia Arrests Bosnian Detention Camp Commander (BIRN)
• Macedonia President in a Knot Over Neckties (BIRN)
• A forgotten crime: Montenegro’s double-dealing on the media (EUobserver)
Sabit Geci questioned on organ trafficking (Express)
Express has learned that indictments against two or three key people in PDK and AAK will be filed soon. Panic has already started… Former KLA commander of Drenica region has been questioned two or three times so far. Geci is convicted for a case of war crime, another one on going, while if everything goes […]
Read More →Days of determined steps (Koha Ditore)
KTV’s editor-in-chief, Adriatik Kelmendi, recalls that the last time an Assembly Speaker in Kosovo decided to form a political party of its own, led to the largest party at the time, LDK, lose next elections. He wonders whether this will again be the case when the present Speaker Jakup Krasniqi has left PDK for good […]
Read More →Dačić to attend National Prayer Breakfast (B92, Tanjug)
Outgoing PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić is in the United States for several days, where he will today attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Later on Thursday, he is scheduled to meet with FBI Director James Comey. The National Prayer Breakfast will also be attended by SPO leader Vuk Drašković, SNS MPs Zoran […]
Read More →Setting Aside Revealed Truth (NYT OpEd)
LONDON — The journalist is a stranger who moves in the opposite direction from the crowd, toward danger, leaving the settled majority perplexed. Why, they ask, are you going over the lines? Why do you choose such a lonely existence? In search of a fair understanding, you say, and they shake their heads. There is […]
Read More →KSF may become a national guard (Koha online)
Kosovo might have its army soon. Furthermore, with KSF capacities, there are pretentions that the army can be created within 30 days, after the constitutional changes. All the preparations on this are already made. However, the main problem remains its name. The Government fears that the name “army” would not be approved by the deputies […]
Read More →Italy’s Kosovo embassy embroiled in organized crime sweep (Reuters)
PRISTINA (Reuters) – The son of the late leader of Kosovo’s fight for independence, Ibrahim Rugova, was among 10 people arrested on Wednesday by European Union police on suspicion of organized crime involving the Italian embassy. The EU’s law and order mission in the young Balkan state said charges included organized crime, trading in influence […]
Read More →Assembly starts discussion about University of Pristina (Radio Kosova)
Assembly speaker Jakup Krasniqi in today’s Assembly session said that public should know who are those individuals who are further spying Kosovo and its citizens, Krasniqi made these statements in the part for free statements referring to the public statements of three former Yugoslav security agents, who stated that also at this day in Assembly, […]
Read More →Collapse of a corrupt system (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s editor-in-chief, Agron Bajrami, says that the recent EULEX search operation at the residence of the late president, Ibrahim Rugova, resulted in the arrest of an MP for selling Italian visas and this, though organized, is no serious crime but it is a sort that can never happen to a representative of the people, […]
Read More →Municipality finds solution for displaced persons (Zëri)
For two years now, European Commission, UNHCR, and the Kosovo Ministry for Returns and Communities asked the Municipality of Gjakova to allocate a site where these three institutions would construct housing facilities for 50 families with 114 members from RAE communities, displaced since the war and living in a refugee camp in Montenegro. The request […]
Read More →Reactions to the arrests in Pristina and Mitrovica North (RTK2)
In Pristina was arrested son of Ibrahim Rugova, Uke Rugova and seven people charged for organized crime. At approximately the same time, in northern Mitrovica was arrested Dragoljub Delibasic, a retired colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia, who is accused of committing several crimes during 1999 and 2000.Earlier was arrested Oliver Ivanovic […]
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