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Politics2d agoKosovo’s PDK Urged to Embrace Change After Ex-Leaders’ Hague ConvictionsWith Hashim Thaci and its other former leaders behind bars in The Hague, analysts say it’s time for the once-powerful Democratic Party of Kosovo to face the future and decide what it stands for.Balkan Insight
World3d agoKosovo Fortress Faces Uncertain Future After Flawed UNESCO RestorationA decade after controversial renovations that experts say compromised its archaeological integrity, the Novoberde/Novo Brdo Fortress remains closed. Concerns about collapsing walls remain, as do unresolved questions about conservation restoration plans.Balkan Insight
PoliticsNov 4Kosovo: Protests and outrage after a woman was killed despite repeatedly seeking assistance from the authoritiesDespite reporting her husband to the police and pleading for protection, Arlinda Zekaj was brutally murdered. Now, thousands in Kosovo are protesting what they say is a dramatic failure of state institutions.DW News [en]
WorldNov 4Kosovo: Outrage as authorities accused of not helping femicide victimDespite reporting her husband to the police and pleading for protection, Arlinda Zekaj was brutally murdered. Now, thousands in Kosovo are protesting what they say is a dramatic failure of state institutions.DW News [en]
ConflictNov 4Kosovo Identifies Three More Wartime Missing PersonsThree Kosovo Albanian intellectuals who were forcibly disappeared by Serbian forces in April 1999 have been identified in a mass grave in the north of Kosovo.Balkan Insight
PoliticsNov 3Serbia's new leaders unlikely to recognise Kosovo, Albania's Rama warnsEdi Rama says Serbia’s new government remains “completely closed towards recognising Kosovo” and remains reluctant to impose sanctions on Russia.EuroNews [en]
PoliticsNov 3Waste Crisis Blights Kosovo’s Capital and its Mayor’s Political AmbitionsPristina’s mayor and Kosovo’s government are trading blame for the waste blighting the capital; the crisis threatens to hurt the mayor’s political ambitions.Balkan Insight
WorldNov 2Exhibition in Kosovo Capital Asks What Antifascism Means TodayPristina is the first stop outside Germany for Antifascism: Now, a decentralised network of exhibitions looking at the legacy of antifascism and what can be done today to confront a resurgence of fascism.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 30Kosovo Protests Grow Over Killing Of Woman Who Pleaded For Police ProtectionProtests are spreading across Kosovo after a woman who repeatedly pleaded for protection was killed, allegedly by her brother-in-law. An official investigation found multiple institutional failures, including a prosecutor's refusal to act on a death threat. Eleven police officers and two prosecutors have been suspended, but as RFE/RL's Doruntina Baliu explains, the justice and interior ministers are refusing to resign despite mounting public pressure.RFE/RL
PoliticsOct 29Prosecutors and Police Officers Suspended in Kosovo After Latest FemicideThe chief prosecutor and deputy chief prosecutor of Peja/Pec, as well as 11 police officers, were suspended on Thursday after a recent femicide case demonstrated institutional failures.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 28Kosovo Protesters Demand Ministerial, Judicial Resignations After Latest FemicideAfter the murder of a woman in Kosovo at the weekend, protesters took to the streets of Pristina to demand accountability, high-level resignations and an end to gender-based violence.Balkan Insight
WorldOct 26Kosovo Woman Murdered Hours After Reporting Domestic Violence to PoliceKosovo authorities have been accused of failing to protect women after a woman was murdered hours after reporting domestic violence to the police on Sunday evening.Balkan Insight
ConflictOct 26‘Real Grave’: Kosovo Seeks to Correct Mistakes Made in Identifying War DeadIn trying to identify the remains of more than 300 war dead, authorities in Kosovo are revisiting those identified and buried shortly after the end of hostilities and without the help of DNA, searching for possible mistakes.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 23Proposed Law to Curb Powers of Hague-Based Court Returned to Kosovo AssemblyFollowing the war crimes convictions of former KLA leaders in The Hague, Kosovo’s assembly passed a bill attempting to curb the court’s powers. The bill now returns to the assembly for reconsideration.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 21Leader of Kosovo Opposition Party PDK Steps DownBedri Hamza, the leader of PDK, Kosovo’s largest opposition party, announced his resignation on Wednesday, opening the way for the party to select a new leader.Balkan Insight
ConflictOct 21Kosovo Court Sentences Serb for War CrimesKosovo Serb Milorad Djokovic was sentenced by a Pristina court to 10 years in prison for war crimes related killings and beatings of civilians during a Serbian military assault on a village in 1999.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 20Kosovo Risks Losing More EU Funds After Deadlock Delayed ReformsKosovo is failing to access hundreds of millions in EU funding after two years of political wrangling left Brussels-mandated reforms on hold.Balkan Insight
PoliticsOct 14Kosovo to Boost Support for Ex-KLA Leaders Ahead of War Crimes AppealPrime Minister Albin Kurti announces working group to assist appeals of convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders – while the country's Ombudsperson accuses the Hague court of lacking transparency and accountability.Balkan Insight