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"Vucic on Kosovo - preparing the ground for a new initiative" (N1, Vesti)

Sociologist Dario Hajric, assessing a part of Aleksandar Vucic's speech at the SNS Main Committee on Kosovo, said that he (Vucic) prepares the ground for a new initiative to be taken, regional broadcaster N1 reports.

He adds that there will probably be a turning point in Kosovo's politics, but he thinks that this will not happen behind the scenes.

Movement Fatherland: ''Dacic is lying, the views of Russia and Serbia about Kosovo are not identical'' (Vesti)

"Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, that the views of Russia and Serbia on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija are identical, is a naked lie," says the People's Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, portal Vesti reported.

"Father Sava would never betray Serbs or Kosovo" (Serbian media)

A negative campaign against the high-ranking Decani Abbot, father Sava Janjic continues with the accusations of Sima Spasic from the Association of Families of the Abducted and Missing, reports portal Vesti.

Representatives of other associations do not support Spasic's actions, stating that he should not be involved in politics but in clarifying the fate of the missing.

IDPs cancelled their visit to Djakovica (RTK2, Kontakt plus radio, Vesti, Kossev)

Earlier announced visit of internally displaced persons from Djakovica to the Monastery of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, on the eve of the monastery celebration on August 28, was cancelled due to security reasons, the president of Djakovica citizens Association, Djokica Stanojevic confirmed to RTK2.

Stanojevic stresses that the arrival of around 2,000 displaced persons from Djakovica to their hometown was prevented by an atmosphere of hatred, which, as he said, have prevailed in the past days.

Kosovo Serb wanted by Serbian police and Interpol becomes judge in Pristina (N1, Insajder, Kossev, Vesti)

A Kosovo Serb, wanted by Belgrade and the Interpol was appointed a judge at the Constitutional Court in Pristina, the independent production Insajder has reported.

Radomir Laban, convicted of taking a bribe and sentenced to six years in jail by a Belgrade court disappeared from the grid before he was due to go to prison in 2013.

He was put on the Internet fugitive list upon the request by Serbia’s Justice Ministry in 2014.

Sejdiju: Haradinaj’s Government a hostage of Vucic's decisions (KIM radio, Vesti)

The government of Ramush Haradinaj is rocking increasingly while the opposition increasingly demands the calling of early elections due to the difficult political and economic situation in Kosovo, reports Serbian media.

According to the Serbian media, Haradinaj received a response from the opposition that intends to unite and launch overthrow of the government instead supporting the government's platform on dialogue with Serbia.

Odalovic: ''Excellent cooperation with EULEX and KFOR in the exhumation and in finding additional evidence in this case'' (Vesti)

In the village of Piskote near Djakovica, at least three people have been exhumed, and further investigation will determine whether there are still bodies buried in this place. According to the Vesti portal, the President of the Commission for missing of the Government of Serbia, Veljko Odalovic, also confirmed this information and said that most likely those were remains of the Serbs who were kidnapped or disappeared during 1999.

Bytyqi in Belgrade: Meeting with Scott and Prosecutor (Vesti, Tanjug)

Portal Vesti reports that Ilir Bytyqi, whose three brothers, Ylli, Agron and Mehmet, were killed in 1999 in Serbia, met with the US Ambassador Kyle Scott in Belgrade.

He then spoke with war crimes prosecutor Snezana Jovanovic about the progress of the investigation into the murder of his brothers.

He will also meet Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic, confirmed Ilir Bytyqi to Tanjug.

Filling out the forms again and again (Vesti, Kontakt plus radio)

Vesti portal reports that the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) recently uncovered another murder of a journalist in Kosovo, commentator of the RTV Pristina, Kristo Gegaj, who was killed in Istok in 1999.

His name has not been recorded so far in any of the lists of killed journalists, and the number of killed and kidnapped journalists and media workers during and after the war in Kosovo has risen to 14, reports Vesti.