Zoran Vukotic, a Kosovo Serb extradited from Montenegro last year and charged with war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in 1999, pleaded not guilty at the first hearing on Monday in Mitrovica Basic Court.
Women who have suffered in silence for years in Kosovo, after being tortured and raped in the war, are being offered a reparations scheme – but the stigma of rape means many of them may not apply for it.
The last few weeks have seen a veritable rush of journalists, analysts and civil society activists joining political parties in Kosovo, a month before the snap elections are due to take place.
The latest journalist to make the transfer into politics in the country is renowned journalist and chief of Kosovo’s Radio Free Europe service, Arber Vllahiu. He joined Ramush Haradinaj’s Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK.
Bodo Weber from the Berlin-based Democratization Policy Council writes in an op-ed for Balkan Insight that it is time for the West to come up with a master plan to counter the "feigning commitment" of leaders in Pristina and Belgrade towards the dialogue for normalization of relations. “The frequency of parallel elections in Kosovo and Serbia – with at least one of the two always holding a snap election – demonstrates the interrelationship between Western and domestic policy.
Kosovo’s Minister of Finance, Avdullah Hoti, is set to stand as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-s-finance-minister-to-run-for-pm-05-16-2017
Kosovo is bracing for uncertain snap elections as few opposition parties, whose popularity grew in recent years, now have a chance to enter the main political scene.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-faces-uncertain-snap-elections-05-11-2017
Opposition leader urges Montenegro's government to withdraw recognition of Kosovo's independence after Pristina again failed to ratify a long-awaited border agreement.
Yet another government in Kosovo has fallen before its mandate should have ended after MPs backed a no-confidence vote in the administration.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/third-kosovo-government-premature-collapse-05-10-2017-1
Opposition politicians and experts accuse President Hashim Thaci of attacking the EU to divert public attention from his own political failures.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/thaci-s-anti-eu-rants-draw-backlash-in-kosovo-05-09-2017
As government readies for a decision on whether to send the Montenegrin border agreement to parliament, locals are tiring of the whole issue.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovars-grow-wear-of-border-deal-saga-05-10-2017