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Kosovo closes two of four border crossings with Serbia after protests
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Kosovo closes two of four border crossings with Serbia after protests

Al Jazeera  

Kosovo’s Interior Ministry blamed the closures on ‘masked extremists’ blocking traffic into Serbia. Kosovo has closed two of its four border crossings with Serbia, the government said, after protesters on the Serbian side blocked roads and turned away passengers carrying Kosovo documents. The closures at the Brnjak and Merdare crossings – both located in Kosovo’s northern region with a majority …

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Kosovo shuts 6 Serb bank branches over use of the dinar currency in a move that could raise tensions
7 months ago

Kosovo shuts 6 Serb bank branches over use of the dinar currency in a move that could raise tensions

Associated Press  

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo police on Monday closed six branches of a Serbia-licensed bank in line with the decision on the ban of the use of the Serbian dinar currency in the country, a move that has raised tension with neighboring Serbia. Starting on Feb. 1, the government required areas dominated by the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo to adopt …

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Thousands of minority Serbs protest Kosovo’s decision to abolish the Serbian dinar
10 months, 1 week ago

Thousands of minority Serbs protest Kosovo’s decision to abolish the Serbian dinar

Associated Press  

MITROVICA, Kosovo — Thousands of minority Serbs in Kosovo on Monday protested a ban on the use of the Serbian currenc y in areas where they live, an issue that is proviking the latest crisis in relations between Serbia and Kosovo. Tensions escalated after the government of Kosovo, a former Serbian province, banned banks and other financial institutions in the …

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Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo spar at the UN over the latter’s ban of the Serbian dinar
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo spar at the UN over the latter’s ban of the Serbian dinar

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo sparred at the United Nations over the latter’s ban of the use of the Serbian currency in areas where minority Serbs live, the latest crisis between the two governments. He said it was “nothing more than another in a series of facts of persecution, and a systematic and widespread attack on …

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Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo spar at the UN over the latter's ban of the Serbian dinar
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo spar at the UN over the latter's ban of the Serbian dinar

The Independent  

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Serbia will seek a UN Security Council meeting over latest escalation of tensions with Kosovo
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Serbia will seek a UN Security Council meeting over latest escalation of tensions with Kosovo

The Independent  

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Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo hold a petition drive in hopes of ousting 4 ethnic Albanian mayors
11 months ago

Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo hold a petition drive in hopes of ousting 4 ethnic Albanian mayors

Associated Press  

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo held a signature drive Wednesday in hopes of securing enough to oust four ethnic Albanian mayors whose elections last year sent tensions between Serbia and Kosovo soaring. The drive is expected to start soon Zvecan and Zubin Potok, two other municipalities in the north where most of Kosovo’s ethnic Serb minority lives. …

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Kosovo to partially withdraw special police officers from northern Serb-majority municipalities
1 year, 5 months ago

Kosovo to partially withdraw special police officers from northern Serb-majority municipalities

Associated Press  

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s government on Wednesday will reduce the number of special police officers stationed outside four municipal buildings in ethnic Serb-majority areas and hold new mayoral elections in each of the towns, in a bid to defuse tensions with neighboring Serbia that flared anew in May. Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that one-fourth of the special police …

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Turkish forces arrive in Kosovo to bolster NATO-led peacekeepers after recent violence
1 year, 6 months ago

Turkish forces arrive in Kosovo to bolster NATO-led peacekeepers after recent violence

Associated Press  

ISTANBUL — A Turkish commando battalion requested by NATO has arrived in Kosovo to assist in quelling recent violent unrest in the Balkan country. The Turkish Defense Ministry shared a video Sunday showing troops wearing the insignia of the Kosovo Force, a NATO-led peacekeeping mission established in 1999, departing Turkey and arriving in Kosovo. I thank Turkey for sending reinforcements …

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Protesting Serbs in northern Kosovo start removing barricades
1 year, 11 months ago

Protesting Serbs in northern Kosovo start removing barricades

Al Jazeera  

The removal of the roadblock paves the way for easing soaring tensions in the volatile region. Cars and trucks were queueing in front of the border point from the Serbian side where the roadblock was set up, the report said on Thursday, while Kosovo police confirmed the crossing was officially re-opened. It came hours after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said …

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Serbian troops on Kosovo border in state of ‘combat readiness’
1 year, 11 months ago

Serbian troops on Kosovo border in state of ‘combat readiness’

Al Jazeera  

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered that ‘all measures be taken to protect the Serbian people in Kosovo’. Serbia has placed its security forces on the border with Kosovo in a “full state of combat readiness”, senior officials have said, amid increasingly strained relations with its neighbour and despite calls by the European Union and NATO for tensions to ease …

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Serbia seeks return of its troops to Kosovo as tensions soar
2 years ago

Serbia seeks return of its troops to Kosovo as tensions soar

Associated Press  

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia on Thursday formally demanded that its security forces return to the breakaway former Serbian province of Kosovo, despite warnings from the West that such calls are unlikely to be accepted and only add to tensions in that part of the Balkans. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told state RTS television that the government asked the commander of …

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Serbia’s Vucic seeks NATO approval to send forces to north Kosovo
2 years ago

Serbia’s Vucic seeks NATO approval to send forces to north Kosovo

Al Jazeera  

Serbian president said he was under ‘no illusion’ that NATO would agree to his request amid tension in northern Kosovo. Serbia will ask NATO peacekeepers to let it deploy Serbian military and police to volatile northern Kosovo, although it believes there is no chance of the request being approved, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said. Vucic told a news conference …

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Albanian politicians see jailed Kosovo leaders in The Hague
2 years, 2 months ago

Albanian politicians see jailed Kosovo leaders in The Hague

Associated Press  

TIRANA, Albania — Three former presidents of Albania and one of Kosovo on Wednesday visited ethnic Albanian former commanders in the fight against Serbian rule in Kosovo who are being held in a Netherlands prison pending trial for alleged war crimes. support and solidarity with their last battle in defense of Kosovo’s war for freedom and independence.” An EU-backed war …

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Bosnia-Herzegovina's agony will be prolonged without Dayton reforms
2 years, 8 months ago

Bosnia-Herzegovina's agony will be prolonged without Dayton reforms

The Hindu  

Every year on April 6 the inhabitants of the Bosnian capital commemorate the Day of the City of Sarajevo. Most Bosnians had not believed that it would come to war — irrespective of whether they belonged to the approximately 44 per cent Muslim Bosniaks, the 17 per cent Catholic ethnic Croatians, the 31 per cent orthodox Christian ethnic Serbs or …

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Infographic: 30 years since the Bosnian War
2 years, 8 months ago

Infographic: 30 years since the Bosnian War

Al Jazeera  

The international armed conflict that lasted from 1992 to 1995 led to a genocide that killed more than 100,000 people. Following Bosnia’s recognition as an independent state in 1992, Bosnian Serbs backed by Serbia’s president, Slobodan Milosevic, began a campaign to ethnically cleanse the Bosnian territory. During World War II, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was founded – a …

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EXPLAINER: Putin’s Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war
2 years, 9 months ago

EXPLAINER: Putin’s Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war

Associated Press  

BELGRADE, Serbia — Well before Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was using the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to ostensibly offer justification for the invasion of a sovereign European country. Putin’s arguments, repeated several times since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, appear to follow this line: If different ex-Yugoslav republics and the former Serbian …

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Serbia’s new national holiday triggers unease in Balkans
3 years, 3 months ago

Serbia’s new national holiday triggers unease in Balkans

Al Jazeera  

Flexing of muscles by Serbian officials fuels worries in the neighbouring states. Serbia kicked off a new national holiday with a display of military power and calls for all Serbs in the Balkans to unite under one flag, triggering unease among its neighbours decades after similar calls led to the bloody wars in the 1990s. The flexing of muscles by …

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