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Handke wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, a friend of Velika Hoca, harsh reactions from Pristina (KoSSev)

Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced today. On the other hand, Polish author, Olga Tokarczuk was also awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize, since this award was not given last year due to a sexual assault scandal. Handke is locally known as a great benefactor and friend of Kosovo Serbs, especially in the south. He enjoys a reputation in Serbia for being one of the few, but strongest, anti-bombing voices in 1999. Completely opposite reactions arrive from Pristina and region.

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Serbian List, an absolute winner in Sunday’s election for Kosovo’s assembly (KoSSev, RTS, B92, N1)

Among the Kosovo Serb parties, the absolute winner of this Kosovo election is the Serbian List party, portal KoSSev writes.

This party has achieved its goal and won 10 out of 10 parliamentary seats reserved for the Serbian community and will be the only Serbian parliamentary party in the next Assembly of Kosovo (unless something changes when votes are officially counted, including votes by mail and conditional votes).

Kosovo Serb political landscape: Serbian List (Srpska Lista) (KoSSev)

Three parties and one coalition representing the Kosovo Serb community have registered to participate in the upcoming early parliamentary elections in Kosovo. Four electoral lists of Serbian political entities have a total of 50 candidates. Srpska Lista is the biggest of the three parties and the (absolute) favourite to win in the upcoming elections.

SNS offers transport to displaced Serbs from Kosovo to vote for Serbian List (KoSSev, N1)

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) branch in the central city of Kraljevo, said it called on some 20,000 Serbs displaced from Kosovo and living in the city to go to Kosovo and vote for Serbian List in Sunday’s elections, local TV reported.

Vesna Milojevic, a local SNS official, said that “Serbian List is the only grantor of the Serbs’ survival” in Kosovo, adding the party managed to unite all Serbs there.

Coalition Freedom, Rasic: Those not being loyal to Serb List fired daily; two arrests (RFE, Beta, N1)

Nenad Rasic, Kosovo Serb opposition politician and the Coalition Freedom candidate for Prime Ministers in the elections on Sunday, told Radio Free Europe (RFE) that the campaign was conducted in "abnormal conditions," the Beta news agency reported on Wednesday.

He said that "everyday someone gets fired because they are not loyal to Serbian List. There is no person who hasn't been called at least five times."

Pristina indicts Serb for preparing terrorist attacks in Kosovo (Kossev, Koha, N1)

Kosovo Special Prosecutors’ Office indicted a Serb identified only by initials S.A. suspected of “preparing terrorist or criminal acts against Kosovo’s Constitutional order and safety,” the KoSSev website reported on Wednesday. According to Pristina’s Koha website, the charge sheet says that S.A. has sent a package to R.R.

Kosovo Serb political landscape: Independent Liberal Party (KoSSev)

Three parties and one coalition representing the Kosovo Serb community have registered to participate in the upcoming early parliamentary elections in Kosovo. Four electoral lists of Serbian political entities have a total of 50 candidates. One of the three parties that submitted a list of 13 MP candidates is the Kosovo Serb party with the longest experience on the Kosovo political scene – the Independent Liberal Party (Samostalna Liberalna Stranka – SLS). See more: https://bit.ly/2oIT0hc

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Protests against MHPP in Strpce: Matkos Group halted construction on private land plots (KoSSev)

For ten months now, the citizens of Strpce have been unsuccessfully trying to prevent the construction of mini hydroelectric power plants in this municipality. They are still not giving up on what can only be described as a quixotic fight. They were able to temporarily halt the construction in Bitinja today, given that the works were being carried out on privately owned parcels of land – Strpce resident, Radoica Mrdjinac told KoSSev.

Rada v. Serbian List (Kosovo online, KoSSev, Beta)

Rada Trajkovic, a candidate of coalition Freedom said that victory of Serbian List in the October elections in Kosovo would mean that now the ''mafia is the state project of Serbia in Kosovo'', reported portal KoSSev.

Trajkovic also said that the ''Serbian List is not competent to receive the support of the Serbian people''.