Cadez: Pristina’s taxes lead to bizarre moments, Kosovo police confiscates gift packages (RTS, KoSSev)
Kosovo police confiscated in Mitrovica South 140 gift packages dedicated to the primary schools’ children in Serb-populated villages of Osojane and Gorazdevac, on the occasion of Saint Sava Day, RTS reports. President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Marko Cadez told RTS that Pristina’s decision on taxes lead to bizarre moments. He noted that neither […]
Read More →Putin’s Next Playground or the E.U.’s Last Moral Stand? (The New York Times)
“In the Balkans the transition is over,” Remzi Lani, an Albanian political analyst, told me some time ago. But unlike in many post-Communist countries, Mr. Lani didn’t mean a transformation from dictatorship to democracy. “We transitioned from repressive to depressive regimes.” He is right. The old Communists and radical ethnic nationalists are largely gone; in […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Until vote on draft law on salaries, everyone will protest and strike (media)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said today that until the Assembly votes on the draft law on salaries, “everyone will protest and go on strike trying to secure a more advanced position”. “Everyone is seeking a better position in the law … It is normal to have strikes when the law is drafted 20 years […]
Read More →Simic: Serbs will not accept violent integration of Mitrovica North (TV Pink, Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)
Serbs from Mitrovica North will not accept the violent integration with Mitrovica South, Srpska Lista Deputy Chair, Igor Simic said, commenting on an initiative to unite the town, Tanjug news agency reported. “Serbs from northern part of Mitrovica will not accept violent integration into any system, since nobody wants to replace something that is good […]
Read More →Odalovic: International and domestic public to raise their voices (TV Pink, Tanjug, Dnevnik)
After the former Council of Europe Special Rapporteur on organ trafficking allegations in Kosovo, Dick Marty in an interview with the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti said that he was told the evidence on the “Yellow House” was concealed, Chairman of the Serbian Government Missing Persons Commission and Secretary General at the Foreign Ministry, Veljko Odalovic […]
Read More →Dick Marty: “The Hague hid all evidence on ‘Yellow House’“ (Vecernje Novosti, KoSSev)
Former Swiss Senator and Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur on the human organ trafficking in Kosovo, Dick Marty gave an exclusive interview to Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily. Marty’s famous report on organ trafficking pointed to the possibility of monstrous crimes committed against Serbs in northern Albania involving the highest representatives of the authorities in Pristina. […]
Read More →Stamatovic: Patriarch should be in Pec, not in Belgrade’s downtown (B92)
Member of Prosperous Serbia (ZS) and the opposition Alliance for Serbia (SZS) Milan Stamatovic, commenting on Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej’s statement that Serbia needs unity and not quarrels, said that Serbian Patriarch should have been in Pec, and not in “Belgrade’s downtown,” B92 reports. He added the seat of the Serbian Patriarch should be […]
Read More →Patriarch Irinej: Unity and not quarrels needed for Kosovo (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej said Serbian society needs unity in order to preserve and defend Kosovo, since it would not be defended by quarrels, B92 reports. Following the ceremony held in the Vracar (Belgrade) Municipality, on the occasion of Saint Sava Day, Patriarch Irinej said Serbs are a small nation, and must be united […]
Read More →Media: Macron to visit Serbia soon (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
French President Emanuel Macron should visit Serbia in the next couple of weeks, while a precise date should be known soon, Serbian media report. This was stated by French Ambassador in Belgrade Frederic Mondoloni. “I work hard on agreements with Belgrade regarding the new date, and I hope to propose a concrete date soon. I […]
Read More →If there would be elections in Serbia, campaign to start after Statehood Day? (Prva TV)
If Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic decides that extraordinary elections would be held on 31 March, they would be called for on 30 January, latest by 14 February, one day prior to Serbia’s Statehood Day, Prva TV reports this morning. However, if a decision is to have an election by mid-April, then they should be called […]
Read More →Mayor from ruling SNS party detained for attack on journalist in Belgrade (Prva TV, Tanjug, B92)
Veran Matic, chairman of the Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists, spoke for Prva TV in Belgrade on Monday morning about the arrest of Dragoljub Simonovic. Dragoljub Simonovic, mayor of Grocka municipality and senior official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) is suspected of ordering a fire to be started on the property of […]
Read More →Serbian PM starts visit to United States (Serbian Government, B92)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic arrived in New York on Sunday and began a working visit to the United States of America. Prime Minister Brnabic will visit Columbus and Atlanta on 28-29 January, the Serbian Government announced. Prime Minister Brnabic will meet in Columbus with Ohio Governor Mike Dewine and Commander of the National Guard […]
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