A Kosovo court sentenced a man to four months in jail for threatening BIRN Kosovo journalists while they were reporting on a controversial initiative to build a Catholic church in a village in February. The Skenderaj/Srbica branch of the Basic Court of Mitrovica on Tuesday sentenced Mustafe Hasani to four months in prison for threatening…
Alan Chin, a photojournalist for the New York Times who covered the war in Kosovo said that powerful images of civilian suffering in the conflict ‘perhaps had influence on policies in the US and London’. New York-based photojournalist Alan Chin said during a lecture at BIRN’s Reporting House in Prishtina on Monday that images published in…
In an interview with BIRN, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani urged ‘coordination’ with the West in steps concerning Serbia and Kosovo Serbs, saying some EU states need to be convinced – not attacked – to lift punitive measures in place since June last year. As Kosovo drifts into another diplomatic row with its Western allies over…
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla Schwarz considered Serbia’s move to withdraw from the letter of reservations on the deal on normalisation of relations with Kosovo as “partial.” The European Union envoy on Kosovo- Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, said on Friday that Serbia has withdrawn the letter it sent to the EU last year, in which…
Kosovo’s Hardh Fest returns for its 10th anniversary, offering three days of music, culture, and festivities where visitors can enjoy traditional grape-stomping, family-friendly activities, and the annual Wine Fair to celebrate the start of the grape harvest. Under the motto “Për kokërr të qejfit” (Just for fun), the 10th edition of Hardh Fest, the most…
Kosovo’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora advised Kosovo citizens and the diaspora to avoid border crossings with Serbia amid reports of plans to block roads in Serbia surrounding the crossings. Kosovo authorities have urged citizens and diaspora to avoid going through Serbia amidst reports of plans to block roads that lead to border crossings…
Dozens of Kosovo Serbs protested on Monday in North Mitrovica after Kosovo authorities closed five Serbia-run ‘parallel institutions’ in the Serb-majority north, part of continuing efforts to extend government authority. Dozens of Kosovo Serbs protested on Monday in front of the offices of the Serbia-run parallel municipality in North Mitrovica, which Kosovo’s authorities shout down…
As the new school year starts on Monday, the teachers’ union is criticising the government for again not supplying schools with textbooks directly, forcing parents to buy them from stores using money allocated online. Kosovo parents have been touring one bookstore after another recently – just as they did last year – to get textbooks…
Kosovo Special Prosecution charged two former trade ministers with abuse of office for creating an oil marking monopoly in the country, after Kallxo.com’s investigations revealed the acts three years ago. Kosovo Special Prosecution filed an indictment against two former trade ministers, Vesel Krasniqi and Endrit Shala from the political party Social Democratic Initiative, NISMA on…
osnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo marked International Missing Persons Day on Friday, reminding the public of the fate of more than 10,000 people whose bodies have never been found following the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. Emza Fazlic, spokesperson for the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, which organised a gathering with families of the missing and…