Serbs block road in Zubin Potok (Telegrafi)
Around 50 Serbs have blocked the Mitrovica-Bërnjak highway in Zubin Potok demanding the return to work of Kosovo Police deputy commander in Zubin Potok Jugoslav Bogovac. The latter was suspended by the Police General Directorate in Pristina. Zubin Potok mayor Nemanja Jaksic told reporters that Bogovac helped prevent the situation from escalating and that he […]
Read More →The decade of the pogrom against the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija (Blic)
Today is marked the tenth anniversary of pogrom which occurred on 17 and 18 March 2004, when 4,012 Serbs were expelled from Kosovo, and most of them had never returned to their homes. In the wave of violence in Kosovo and Metohija, 19 people were killed. Eight of them were Serbs and 11 Albanians were […]
Read More →OSCE: Voter turnout in Kosovo 34.4 percent (B92)
OSCE has said that preliminary results showed 37,174 registered voters (34.42%) in Kosovo cast their ballots in Serbia’s early parliamentary election. OSCE Mission Spokesperson Nikola Gaon spoke for Tanjug late on Sunday. Gaon added that no incidents were reported on the day of election. The vote counting will not take place in the province, as […]
Read More →Vulin banned from attending memorial service for slain Serbs (Tanjug)
Serbia’s Minister without portfolio for Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin has been banned from attending a memorial service for slain Kosovo Serbs that will be held at the St. Nicholas Church in Pristina to mark the tenth anniversary of the March Pogrom, the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Sunday. “The latest ban shows that Pristina […]
Read More →Krasniqi: Do not insult intelligence of this nation! (dailies)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker, Jakup Krasniqi, has opposed holding of early elections of Serbia in Kosovo, saying that in this way is insulted intelligence of the people of Kosovo. In his profile in Facebook, Krasniqi wrote that it should be told the truth to the people about these elections, because lies don’t work anymore. “It is […]
Read More →Greece to accept Schengen visas in Kosovo passports (dailies)
Greece has decided to accept Schengen visas in Kosovo passports. Implementation of this decision will start to apply on 20 March of this year. Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos has confirmed this news to Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Enver Hoxhaj. So far, Kosovo citizens were obliged to receive Greek visas. Greece is among the […]
Read More →Bildt against comparison of Kosovo with Crimea (dailies)
Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt, said that Sunday’s referendum in Crimea is illegal and violates Constitution of Ukraine, while saying that sanctions against Russian leaders would be difficult to be avoided. In an interview for the Swedish Radio Ekot, Bildt has dismissed parallels with Kosovo which broke away from Serbia and it is recognized by […]
Read More →Northern Serbs want their own security forces (Bota Sot)
Representatives of four Serb majority municipalities in northern Kosovo have supported the request of the Serbian Government and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic to have Northern Security Forces there. “The ethnic composition of Security Forces in the north would reflect the ethnic percentage of the population there and its existence would guarantee security,” a communiqué issued […]
Read More →Election reform to be voted on Thursday? (Epoka e Re)
Presidency of Kosovo Assembly is to meet today but according to its agenda, there will be no discussion on election reform. At the same time, members of the legislation commission claim there is no reason to postpone approval of election reform by the Assembly. PDK’s representative in the commission, Halit Krasniqi, said he was hopeful […]
Read More →Decision on elections and Tribunal, this week (Tribuna)
Based on reliable sources close to the Government, Tribuna reports that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, is expected to invite this week the leaders of the political parties in Kosovo, to decide on the date of dissolving the Parliament of Kosovo. He will call on this meeting as the leader of the Democratic […]
Read More →Vucic’s party wins about 50 percent of votes (Koha Ditore)
Serbia’s centre-right Progressive Party SNS) led by Aleksandar Vucic has won about 50 percent of the votes in yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Serbia, announced the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID). Referring to the partial vote counting, CeSID director, Marko Blagojevic, said that Progressive Party has won about “fifty percent of casted vote” and […]
Read More →Serbs in Kosovo voted for Assembly of Serbia (dailies)
Koha Ditore reports on the front page that Kosovo Serb citizens have voted to elect leaders in Serbia in a process managed by the OSCE in Kosovo which opened 10 “collecting centers” for the purpose. The entire voting process was called “collection operation” by the OSCE and the Kosovo Government, although in these centres it […]
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