Political analyst: OSCE encouraging chaos by observing the elections only in the north Kosovo (Kosovo online, Sputnik)
The role of OSCE in Kosovo is to provide technical advice and assistance, this mission reminded the public and said that they would not have observers in the forthcoming elections, stressing that this was a request from CEC. According to political analyst Dejan Vuk Stankovic without the OSCE, the elections in Kosovo will be anything […]
Read More →Lavrov: Kosovo’s problem is a high-stakes geopolitical game (RTS, Sputnik)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the farewell reception of the Serbian ambassador in Moscow. Lavrov thanked Slavenko Terzic for the joint work and wished him much success in his further career. Lavrov referred to the friendship of the two peoples, a common history – the history of the brotherhood of Slavs and Orthodox. ”We […]
Read More →Moscow will insist on Resolution 1244 regarding Kosovo, says Botsan-Kharchenko (FoNet, Sputnik, N1)
The Russian ambassador to Serbia Alexandar Botsan – Kharchenko said on Wednesday that if his country was involved in solving the Kosovo issue, Moscow would insist on international law and still valid UN Security Council Resolution 1244 “or everything else would be in vain,” the FoNet news agency reported. He told the Russian Sputnik media […]
Read More →Russian media: Togo withdraws recognition of Kosovo (N1, Srna, Sputnik)
Togo, a West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, became the 15th country which withdrew the recognition of Kosovo, according to Sputnik, a Russian state media outlet, as carried by the Srna news agency. Sputnik said it got the news confirmed by diplomatic sources. Last week, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic announced the latest […]
Read More →UNS and UNS in Kosovo demand apology and resignations of RTK editors (UNS, Radio KIM)
Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo condemned publishing of the text on RTK 1 and RTK 2 portals, which included the information about the private life of Sputnik journalist Brankica Ristic, and demanded apology as well as resignations of these portals’ editors, Radio KIM reported. Both portals […]
Read More →New Russian ambassador: The West is pressing Serbia and supports exclusively Albanians (Beta, Sputnik, N1)
The West’s pressure on Serbia is obvious, and the US and its allies are encouraging Kosovo to maintain tensions in the region, said Russia’s new ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Bocan-Harchenko. According to the Sputnik portal, he pointed out that these pressures are felt during the pre-accession negotiations that the European Union leads with Serbia, while […]
Read More →Russia appoints Balkans expert to replace ambassador in Serbia (N1, Sputnik, Interfax)
Senior Foreign Ministry official and Balkans expert Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko has been appointed the new Russian ambassador to Serbia, Russian media reported quoting a decree by President Vladimir Putin. Russian news agencies said that “President Putin relieved Alexander Chepurin of his duties as Ambassador to Serbia and appointed Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko to the post”. The decree was […]
Read More →Dacic, US Embassy, Benjamin Franklin, Kosovo (Blic, FoNet, N1, Sputnik)
Ivica Dacic, Serbia’s Foreign Minister, told Russian Sputnik news agency he did not destroy the 100 dollars banknote by writing “Kosovo is Serbia” on it, nor did he insult Benjamin Franklin, an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the US, but followed Franklin’s essential idea, who also had a wise message that […]
Read More →The Orthodox Church in Novo Brdo converted into Catholic? (KIM radio, Sputnik, B92)
Radio KiM reports that the remains of the Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Novo Brdo is being converted by Pristina authorities into a three-necked basilica, which is a great forgery, warned Marko Popovic, co-author of the monograph dedicated to the church. Popovic claims that a part of the conservation works has already been done, […]
Read More →Moscow Slams Kosovar Operations, Arrest of Russian National (Sputnik)
The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed on Tuesday Kosovar special tasks forces’ intrusion into northern Kosovar municipalities inhabited by Serbs and arrests of locals as another Pristina’s provocation aimed at pushing out non-Albanian population from the self-proclaimed republic. See at:https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905281075403683-serbia-kosovo-high-alert/
Read More →Sputnik: Lavrov on the idea of double sovereignty in Kosovo
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Sputnik portal (Serbian language) that the problem of Kosovo, instead of imposing an ultimatum, can be solved only by bringing positions closer and by consensus. On Sputnik’s question about the idea of dual sovereignty in Kosovo, reported by some media in Pristina, Lavrov replied that the West, when it […]
Read More →Kommersant: Deadline for dialogue the end of April, Dacic to harmonize position with Moscow (B92)
Belgrade count on coordinating position with Moscow on the Kosovo issue, reports B92, quoting Moscow daily Kommersant. The Russian daily devoted an article to the announced visit of Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic to Russia. The daily says that during today’s talks between Dacic and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, the main topic of […]
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