Jeremic: Democracy in the Balkans is under siege, and the West is looking away (The Washington Post)
Events in the Western Balkans twice cast a long shadow across Europe in the past century — first in 1914 and then in the 1990s. Both times, the forces unleashed by the carnage could not be contained within the existing international order. And in both instances, proffered solutions failed to resolve the underlying tensions that […]
Read More →A Kosovar to do community work for raising IS terror flag (AP/The Washington Post)
A Kosovo court has sentenced an Albanian citizen who had put a flag of the Islamic State group at a crossroad in the capital Pristina to 180 hours of community labor. http://wapo.st/2tLMAim
Read More →Why did Putin oppose Clinton? Decades of American hypocrisy (The Washington Post)
When the U.S. intervenes abroad, we say it’s justified. When Russia does the same, we say it isn’t. We don’t know how effective Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts were to get President Trump elected. We don’t know whether leaked documents, disinformation campaigns, or actual Russian agents joined forces with Trump to sink Hillary Clinton. But […]
Read More →‘It’s the Crimea model’: Kosovo accuses Serbia of seeking to annex province (Washington Post)
Kosovo officially declared independence from Serbia in 2008. The Muslim-majority nation had been administered by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO bombed Serbia — a move that forced then-President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his troops from the breakaway province. Now, almost 20 years after Kosovo first broke with Serbia and nearly a decade after […]
Read More →Kosovo citizen charged with participating in terror group (The Washington Post/AP)
Kosovo prosecutors say they have charged a citizen with participating in terror groups after the person joined fighters from the Islamic State group in Syria. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/kosovo-citizen-charged-with-participating-in-terror-group/2016/12/07/8120aa2a-bc8a-11e6-ae79-bec72d34f8c9_story.html?utm_term=.83355d4f5455
Read More →Kosovo is rioting over how to draw its borders (The Washington Post/Klan Kosova)
Klan Kosova carries an opinion piece by Sandra Joireman originally published by The Washington Post. Smoke, shouting, chaos and tear gas are the staples of a riot — or an assembly session in Kosovo. It has become common for opposition parties in this western Balkan state to delay votes through the use of tear gas […]
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