After reaching an agreement with Kosovo Serbs, the authorities knocked down a two-metre-high concrete wall which was the centre of a dispute in the divided northern town of Mitrovica.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-demolish-the-wall-in-north-02-05-2017
The second round of talks between Kosovo and Serbian politicians in Brussels was reportedly a failure - and the participants notably omitted to give any real details of what was said after the meeting.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/dialogue-of-normalizations-or-tensions-02-02-2017
Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Centre claimed that 110 people, including senior Serbian officials, remain unprosecuted for removing hundreds of corpses in a bid to cover up massacres during the Kosovo war.
Balkan Insight reports that Russian analysts have dismissed suggestions that Moscow might recognise Kosovo's independence as a wider deal with the US, saying Russia would never betray its ally Serbia.
The Kosovo government is aiming to map the country’s territory precisely for the first time, nine years after declaring independence, following a political dispute over a border agreement with Montenegro.
The two Presidents and Prime Ministers are to meet in Brussels after growing tensions put on hold the implementation of key Belgrade-Pristina agreements.
In the Plus Market shopping centre in the Kosovo town of Ferizaj/Uroshevac, customers cannot buy any well known Serbian brands of chocolate, milk or any other products, no matter how hard they look.
All of the old familiar Serbian products there have been replaced with similar ones from Kosovo and other countries.
Serbs in Kosovo say that the recent ‘propaganda train’ dispute between Belgrade and Pristina left them worried about their security and fearful that they are being used as political pawns.
Belgrade clearly banked on eliciting a stormy reaction from Kosovo by dispatching a train to Mitrovica; whether this drama was a designed to put Kosovo in the wrong - or was a simple miscalculation - is less clear.