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Dec 24, 2024 | 
prishtinainsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
US, UK and OSCE all voice concern over decision not to allow the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party to compete in February's elections – which party leader Zlatan Elek has vowed to challenge. The Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party said it will appeal Monday’s decision of Kosovo’s Central Election Commission, CEC, not to certify it for the February 9 general elections.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
genocidewatch.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic |Perparim Isufi
Six-year jail sentence imposed on Nezir Mehmetaj for war crimes against non-Serbs in a Kosovo village in 1999 condemned by the speaker of Kosovo's parliament – who calls the charges 'invented and arbitrary'. Milica Stojanovic and Perparim Isufi, December 6, 2024Belgrade Higher Court. Photo: BIRNBelgrade’s Higher Court sentenced Nezir Mehmetaj, a Kosovo Albanian, to six years in prison for war crimes against civilians in the village of Rudice in Klina municipality in Kosovo in June and July 1999.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
The Basic Court in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad late Friday ordered Goran Jesic, the former vice-president of the country’s Vojvodina region, to be held in custody for up to 30 days for allegedly attacking a plainclothes policeman at a protest this week. The court decision overturned a previous ruling that freed Jesic, who was arrested outside Novi Sad City Hall during the protest after he pushed a hooded and masked man who was helping lead a protester away.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
Dimitar Bechev: Vucic and Dodik hope US will shift to their sideLike Donald Trump’s first presidency, his second tenure will be marked by a tough-on-China policy, attempts to find some deal with Russia, and by undermining multilateral institutions, including friction with the EU. The big initiative to freeze the Ukraine war might flop.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
Serbia’s government has submitted to parliament a bill concerning the prosecution of crimes committed in Kosovo since declared independence in 2008, but some experts say it is little more than a publicity stunt after it was first trumpeted by President Aleksandar Vucic.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
Miskovic was accused of abuse of his position at Delta and tax evasion. Miskovic spent seven months in custody before being released on 12 million euros bail paid for by Delta in 2013. His trial lasted eight years, during which the constitutional court twice ruled Miskovic’s constitutional rights had been violated. By the end of 2021 Miskovic was acquitted of all the charges.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
genocidewatch.com | Perparim Isufi |Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
Kosovo’s Prime Minister urged the international community to react after Serbia’s government approved a bill declaring Kosovo a 'special area of protection', calling it 'another hostile action'. Perparim Isufi and Milica Stojanovic, October 29, 2024Italian members of NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR), secure the bridge between South and Northern Mitrovica Kosovo, 20 April 2024.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic giving a statement in Belgrade, Serbia, May 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKICSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he expects Serbia and Russia to negotiate a new long-term gas supply deal, after the current three-year deal expires in March. Vucic told Radio Television of Serbia that, during a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday – the first one in over two years – they had talked about the natural gas supply among other things.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with Balkan leaders during the signing of agreements at the Berlin Process Summit on October 14. Photo: EPA-EFE/MICHELE TANTUSSI/POOL. Kosovo will abolish visas for citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina next year, allowing them to enter the country with identity documents, Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced at the Berlin Process Summit in the German capital on Monday.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
balkaninsight.com | Milica Dimitrijevic Stojanovic
Both sides, he said, are waiting for the result of the US presidential election in November, with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump currently neck-and-neck. Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti also has elections coming up.
