“It is the fourth time I came to the festival,” she told BIRN on Thursday evening, as this year’s edition kicked off, recalling the first event in 2018, when global Kosovo Albanian star Dua Lipa, who together with her father Dukagjin, founded the festival, held her first concert in Prishtina. Global pop start Dua Lipa…
Twenty-five years after the end of Kosovo war, Roma refuges that fled to Serbia still struggle to obtain social inclusion and equal opportunities, and even personal documents, a new report says. Many Roma people who fled Kosovo for Serbia after the Kosovo war in 1999 still feel the consequences in terms of their social exclusion…
Only weeks after she was appointed, Zana Spahiu has resigned as acting director of Kosovo’s public broadcaster – following criticism of the decision to publish an article that allegedly smeared two local media outlets. Kosovo’s public broadcaster, Radio Television of Kosovo, RTK, on Thursday said acting general director Zana Spahiu had resigned, effective from July…
According to him, “45 per cent of the tickets sold are international, based on previous years [of attendance]”. While he acknowledges that Kosovo’s big diaspora adds to the visitor numbers, Lipa explains that “our goal is to develop an event in Kosovo that perhaps no one else could develop to the scale that we have”….
American photographer Ron Haviv shared his experiences documenting the breakup of Yugoslavia, from Slovenia’s independence to Kosovo’s liberation, capturing the devastating human impact of the conflicts and the people affected. The wars in former Yugoslavia “were about eliminating the idea of the identity of ‘the other’ whether they were Slovenian, Croat, Bosniak, Kosovar and so…
Public broadcaster says it will investigate the publication of an article from a Bosnian media outlet, which Kosovo’s Journalists’ Association says smears two local Kosovo media outlets. An article published by the Kosovo public broadcaster, Radio Television of Kosovo, RTK, alleging that two Kosovo-based media outlets were illicitly financed by Serbia, has drawn criticism from…
Kosovo government protests as European Commission scraps visa requirement for its residents who hold Serbian passports issued by Serbia’s Directorate for Kosovo. Kosovo residents, most of them Serbs, who have passports issued by Serbia’s Directorate for Kosovo, until now less valuable than standard Serbian passports, will now be able to cross the external border of…
In its fifteenth edition, the Anibar International Animation Festival, in Peja, urges citizens to raise their voices against patriarchal oppression. Park Karagaç in Peja bears a quiet power. Its unassuming nature, containing only a basketball court, playground, and lake theatre, belies the significance of the venue. The laidback outdoor setting creates familiarity and comfort amongst…
Interior Ministry on Friday says that the Kosovo Albanian suspected of having shot dead a Serbian border policeman near Loznica had been ‘liquidated’ after a manhunt. Serbian Interiror Minister Ivica Dacic said the Kosovo Albanian suspected of killing a Serbian border policeman on Thursday, Faton Hajrizi, had been shot dead on Friday. Dacic told RTS…
Ekrem Bajrovic was sentenced on Friday to 12 years’ imprisonment for his role in the beating, torture and killing of ethnic Albanian civilians who were fleeing towards Albania. The Prishtina Basic Court on Friday found Kosovo Bosniak Ekrem Bajrovic, a former member of Serbian forces during the Kosovo war in 1998-99, guilty of war crimes,…