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At a meeting marking the 13th anniversary of the Socialist Movement, Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin sparked controversy after he called on his government to “unite the Serb world.” “The task for this generation of politicians is to form a Serb world, that is to unite Serbs wherever they live,” Vulin told meeting attendees, including Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, “for the ‘Serb world’ to form, Serbia needs to be economically successful, well-led and have an army that is able to protect Serbia and Serbs, wherever they live.” For many, the declaration from Vulin is evocative of previous attempts to “unify...
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A police raid targeting organised crime in Serb dominated northern Kosovo sparked violence and heightened diplomatic tensions on Tuesday after a Russian diplomat and several Serb police officers were arrested in an operation that Kosovar police said was met with armed resistance. The operation targeted about 30 people, including 19 policemen and four customs officers, suspected of smuggling, corruption and "organised crime", according to the Kosovar authorities. Kosovo Special Forces reported encountering "armed resistance" when they entered the towns of Mitrovica and Zubin Potok, with local Serbs setting up barricades to hinder the police action and witnesses reporting an exchange...
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The investigative site Krik and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) yesterday published photos showing Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's brother meeting with Zvonko Veselinovic, a mafia boss from northern Kosovo. The photograph, which can be seen on the OCCRP website, shows Andrej Vucic sitting across the table from Veselinovic in a restaurant on Kopaonik mountain in the south of Serbia. Another man is seated between them as they apparently enjoy each other's company while watching a Red Star Belgrade basketball match on TV. The photographs were recently submitted to KRIK by a reader who took them with a...
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Employees of the N1 television station in Serbia have received a letter containing death threats against them and their families due to their coverage of Kosovo and anti-government protests in Serbia, according to the news channel. In the letter, which was shown on N1 news and has been reported to the police, the sender threatens to blow up H1's office building. “Do you have families.. you’re killing our children and grandchildren, and are unaware that if the destruction happens, your building will be the first to be blown up, and you may lose your dearest. That’s why we, the veterans,...
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One year has passed since the murder of Kosovar Serb politician Oliver Ivanović, without his killers being brought to justice.To commemorate his loss, relatives, friends and colleagues gathered in North Mitrovica in front of his party headquarters, where he was killed in a drive by shooting on 16 January 2018. While neither the gunmen nor the people who ordered his death have yet been identified, the investigation into Ivanović’s murder have so far pointed in the direction of his own Kosovo Serb community. So far, three suspects have been arrested following a raid by the special units of the Kosovar...
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that Serbia is ready to continue the dialogue surrounding Kosovan independence, even in the current circumstances of heightened political and security tensions. "Serbia is ready to continue the dialogue, even in the situation of heightened political and security tensions, primarily for the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija," Vucic said at a meeting with the Chairman of the European Parliament's Delegation to the Parliamentary Stabilization and Association Council of the EU - Serbia Eduard Kukan. Vucic informed Kukan about the reasons for the termination of the dialogue with Pristina, stressing that the obligations from the Brussels...
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Members of the European Parliament widely supported a proposal by the European Commission to exempt visas Kosovan citizens from requiring visas to travel to the bloc, even though the country is still not recognized by five states of the Union. The deputies of the Committee on Home Affairs approved the proposal by 30 votes in favor, 10 against and 2 abstentions. The issue will now be taken up by European Council, which is comprised of the leaders of the member states. Should the visa waiver be approved at the end of the legislative process, Kosovar citizens with a biometric passport...
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Kosovo’s celebrations last month for the tenth anniversary of its independence peaked with a free concert headlined by the popular British singer Rita Ora, who was born in Kosovo. In some ways, Ora embodies everything that Kosovo would like to see itself as: young, dynamic and successful. The grand festivities also featured police and military parades through Pristina, Kosovo’s capital city, and optimistic political rhetoric. At a special parliament session to mark the country’s first ten years of independence from Serbia, Speaker Kadri Veseli pledged that "the second decade of independence would be focused on the economic well-being of Kosovo's...
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A confluence of events in and around Kosovo over the past few months has brought renewed scrutiny on the small republic and its neighbours. On January 16, moderate Kosovar Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic was gunned down outside his office in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica. The assailants remain unknown, but the shockwave caused by his killing was forceful enough to blow the lid off the murky underworld of politically connected organised crime that pervades the region. That this took place just one month before the tenth anniversary of Kosovo’s independence from Serbia cast a pall over the celebrations as...
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A leading Serb politician from Kosovo, Oliver Ivanović, was shot dead on Tuesday morning, just one month before the 10th anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia. Local media report that Ivanović was hit by at least three bullets during a drive by shooting outside his party headquarters in north Mitrovica, a city tensely divided along ethnic lines between Serbs and Kosovar Albanians. Ivanović was found seriously injured by a neighbor who called an ambulance that took him to hospital where he was pronounced dead a short while later. In a statement, Kosovan government called the killing "a challenge to...
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