Kosovo on Sunday will mark one month since its voters went to polls to elect a new parliament, but the process is far from over, as the Central Election Commission, CEC, still has not announced the final results. “Certification of results first,” Prime Minister Albin Kurti, whose Vetevendosje party came first in the February 9…
On March 7th, widely celebrated as Teacher’s Day, a discussion took place at the Reporting House of Journalists, focusing on the huge role of “Home Schools” in Kosovo during the ‘90s, which were created as an answer to government oppression of the Albanian population at the time. Former teacher, students, and activists gathered on Friday…
“Most of the intimidating comments came on Facebook, where older generations who saw themselves as more intellectual were talking about the degeneration of society and youth.” It was even worse offline. “Sometimes I’d be walking down the street and I’d hear people talking, shouting, or even following me. Most of them were young people trying…
Kostyantyn Grygorenko, editor-in-chief of the east Ukrainian local newspaper ‘Izium Horizons’ and Alex Anderson, former International Crisis Group project director for Kosovo and Amnesty International and OSCE researcher in eastern Ukraine, meet in Prishtina, resuming a discussion started as panellists amid air raid alerts at a large journalists’ forum in Kyiv in late 2023. This…
Despite fines imposed by the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel and the Supreme Court on political parties for using hate speech during the electoral campaign, a Kallxo.com investigation revealed that most of the materials are still accessible online. Although the Election Complaints and Appeals Panel, ECAP, and the Supreme Court penalised political parties in Kosovo…
Young girls and boys from different countries break cultural barriers through swimming in Kosovo. It’s evening on January 30, and swimming trainers in a pool of a Pristina’s suburb are ready to prepare their young swimmers with swim caps and goggles. Swimmers begin with some warm-up exercises before going into the 25 meters long swimming…
On February 17, Kosovo marked its 17th independence anniversary with celebrations. In Serb-majority Mitrovica, the sight of Albanian flags raised concerns, while security and law institutions failed to investigate the motive. Kallxo.com revealed that police have not reported all evidence to the prosecution. On the night of February 17, a group of 12 Albanians from…
On April 20, 1973, the Central Committee of Albania’s communist party criticised the publication of poems by Pashku, Podrimja and Basha in Albanian newspapers, condemning their “unclear, heretical verses”. But while it singled out Pashku as “one of the dedicated initiators and authors of the manifesto against socialist realism”, the Committee said Podrimja appeared to…
In a draft report to the European Parliament, the Kosovo rapporteur urged the immediate removal of EU sanctions imposed on Kosovo in June 2023 due to tensions in the country’s northern region, calling them unjustified. The European Parliament’s Rapporteur for Kosovo, Riho Terras, in a draft annual report on the situation in Kosovo and its…
US envoy Richard Grenell denounced the imprisonment and Hague trial of Hashim Thaci for war crimes and blamed Europeans and Kosovo’s own institutions for “failing to bring this injustice to an end”. US President Donald Trump’s Envoy for Special Missions, Richard Grenell, on Monday called for the release of Kosovo’s ex-President, Hashim Thaci, from a…