Danas daily awards Serbia’s two independent journalists (Danas, N1, KoSSev, BIRN)
The Belgrade based Danas daily awarded two journalists for being professional in “all but easy time for media,” the newspaper reported on Wednesday. The editor of the KoSSev website from North Kosovo’s Mitrovica town Tatjana Lazarevic and an editor of the BIRN website and a journalist with the Vreme weekly Slobodan Georgijev will receive “Stanislav […]
Read More →Media Coalition: Journalists in Serbia exposed to threats, their safety at risk (N1, Beta)
The Coalition of journalists’ and media associations called on public on Thursday to defend professional media and journalists who had been exposed to insults, serious threats and whose safety was jeopardised, the Beta news agency reported. In its statement, the Coalition said that in the last several days only, some journalists were publicly lynched on […]
Read More →Kosovo minister’s sacking urged over “sexist, racist remark” (Tanjug, BIRN, B92)
The Pristina-based Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) has called for Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli to be sacked. CDHRF requested the dismissal because Pacolli used “sexist and racist” language when he spoke before Kosovo Assembly’s foreign affairs committee to describe “the way Serbia lobbied against Kosovo’s membership in Interpol.” According to […]
Read More →Kosovo Deal Will Challenge States That Denied Recognition (Balkan Insight, BIRN)
If Serbia and Kosovo manage to solve their decade-long dispute, the five EU countries that did not recognize Kosovo may have to adjust their foreign policies fast. The five EU countries that have not recognized Kosovo might find themselves embarrassed and having to adjust their policies rapidly if Serbia and Kosovo agree on a final […]
Read More →Kosovo Furore Could Hit Vucic and Thaci’s Popularity (Balkan Insight)
By Perparim Isufi, Maja Zivanovic BIRN Pristina, Belgrade Analysts say recent heated rhetoric about the possibility of border changes will affect the popularity of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci – but probably not enough to unseat them. The recent intensive exchange of statements about border ‘corrections’ between Serbia and Kosovo […]
Read More →Few Kosovo Corruption Verdicts Lead to Jail Terms – BIRN
Only a small proportion of those found guilty of corruption in Kosovo end up in prison, the 12th court monitoring report produced by BIRN and Internews Kosova finds. Few corruption-related court cases in Kosovo end with a prison sentence, BIRN Kosovo and Internews Kosova’s annual court monitoring report for 2017, presented on Tuesday, said. Since […]
Read More →OSCE urges action on journalists’ murders in Kosovo (B92, BIRN)
The OSCE wants renewed efforts to uncover the truth behind the kidnappings and murders of Serb and ethnic Albanian journalists connected to the 1999 war. OSCE ambassador to Kosovo Jan Braathu said on Tuesday at the unveiling of a memorial plaque to two Serbian reporters who were kidnapped in 1999 and never found that the […]
Read More →Ivanovic Named Radoicic as North Kosovo Dark Ruler (Balkan Insight)
Murdered Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic named Milan Radoicic – a debt collector and truck owner close to Serbia’s ruling party – as a key figure in the intimidating system of power in northern Kosovo. In his last interview with BIRN in October, Oliver Ivanovic, the Kosovo Serb politician murdered in January, named Milan Radoicic […]
Read More →Opportunity for journalists beginners (KIM radio)
A series of workshops for journalists beginners from Kosovo and those who want to pursue journalism will start in March, and will end with study visits to influential and professional media outlets in Belgrade and Pristina in April, reports KIM radio. Journalists and local media editors from Kosovo, colleagues from the Insajder, BIRN and N1 […]
Read More →Serbia Seeks Russian Role in Kosovo Talks (BIRN)
Aleksandar Vucic says he has asked Serbia’s ally, Russia, to join the Kosovo negotiations if the US also joins the table – and President Vladimir Putin has indicated his willingness to do so. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he had asked Russia to join the negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, if the US attempts to […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb Minister: Learning Albanian is necessary (BIRN)
Kosovo government minister Dalibor Jevtic says Serbs and Albanians need to build trust – and that Kosovo Serb children should learn the Albanian language to ensure better communication for the future. “The key word today in Kosovo is trust, which has to be built both between the two communities and towards [state] institutions,” Dalibor Jevtic, […]
Read More →Kosovo Braces for Security Challenge of Returning Fighters (BIRN)
A draft strategy developed by the government says fighters coming back from the Middle East, as Islamic State collapses, pose the next major challenge to the country’s security. The Kosovo government’s new National Strategy against Terrorism and Action Plan 2018-2022 says fighters returning from conflict zones in the Middle East, as the so-called Islamic State, […]
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