In Kosovo, agritourism is on the rise, with people abandoning urban stress to invest in village revitalisation and establish a sustainable lifestyle away from the city. Adrian Berisha once felt shackled by the grind of urban life in Prishtina, which he likened to modern-day slavery. The ceaseless battle for affordability on stepping out of his…
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…
Adelina’s Cook Shop, a divine little cake shop on Bajram Kelmendi street in Prishtina, started out from humble beginnings in March 2020, just as the COVID-19 global pandemic was hitting Kosovo. In those early lockdown days, the shop’s owner, Adelina Bikliq, started posting recipes on her Instagram account (@adelinascookdiary) to help provide motivation for those…
Residents of Gorazdevac, a Serb majority village in the municipality of Peja/Pec, Kosovo, claim they are struggling to integrate into Kosovo society because of obstacles including language and infrastructure barriers. Kosovo Serbs from Gorazdevac, a village approximately seven kilometres from Peja/Pec municipality, requested at a public hearing also attended by BIRN and local media outlet…
For the first time in 25 years, Besnik Mehmeti, an ethnic Albanian photographer from North Macedonia, is showing his images documenting Kosovo Albanian refugees and the grim reality of war during NATO’s military intervention in 1999. “I entered Kosovo immediately in June 1999 along with the NATO troops and saw the destruction of cities, the…
Kosovo’s artists miss out on regional collaboration opportunities because of politics, lack of money, and sometimes unwillingness. In 2023, for the first time in approximately 50 years, a play from Kosovo performed in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica. “I believe there is a lack of genuine desire to understand one another,” Adrian Morina, an actor from…
In pursuit of its policy of outlawing the continued use of the Serbian currency in Kosovo, police on Monday closed six offices of the Serbia-run Post Saving Bank in the north. Kosovo Police closed six offices of the Serbia-run financial institutions in four Serb-majority municipalities in the north on Monday one week after Kosovo’s Central…
Twenty-three members of Liridona Deliu’s family were killed in a massacre in September 1998 – but she’s facing an uphill battle to be recognised by the Kosovo government as a war victim. Survivors of the Abri e Eperme/Gornje Obrinje massacre in the Drenas area of Kosovo, in which 23 members of the Deliu family were…
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced on Monday that starting January 1, 2025, Kosovo will unilaterally permit free movement for all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina holding identification cards. Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, announced on Monday that as of January 1, Kosovo will unilaterally allow free movement for holders of identification cards from Bosnia…
Germany has described Kosovo’s latest move to secure Council of Europe membership this week as insufficient, saying the ‘heavy lifting’ it had expected ‘has still not happened’ Kosovo’s government made a final push on Thursday to convince Western countries to include its Council of Europe application on the agenda for the organisation’s ministerial meeting on…