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Serbian Church May Face UK Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

Balkaninsight.com - Mon, 17/12/2018 - 10:06
The Serbian Orthodox Church, which wields considerable influence in the Balkan state, has long been accused of covering up sexual abuse within its ranks.
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Nazi-Allied Fighters’ Heirs ‘Seeking Restitution from Serbia’

Balkaninsight.com - Mon, 17/12/2018 - 07:30
Descendants of fighters allied with the Nazis and the collaborationist World War II regime in Serbia have been asking for the restitution of property confiscated after the war, the national restitution agency said.
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Kosovo’s Tough-Guy Tactics Won’t Get it Far

Balkaninsight.com - Mon, 17/12/2018 - 07:27
Kosovo’s government is in fighting mood, taxing Serbian goods and vowing to form its own ‘army’ – but it is going for the wrong targets.
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Macedonia to Approve Amnesty for Parliament Attackers

Balkaninsight.com - Mon, 17/12/2018 - 07:23
Macedonia’s parliament is due to vote on the much criticised law that would offer a partial amnesty to some of those involved in last year’s mob attack on parliament.
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Videos 'Prove' Croatia Forcibly Expelling Migrants, Watchdog Says

Balkaninsight.com - Sun, 16/12/2018 - 09:42
A Croatian watchdog organization on Sunday published video material that it says proves that the Croatian police systematically and violently expel migrants and refugees from the country on border with Bosnia.
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Opposition Protesters Demand 'Fair' Election in Serbia

Balkaninsight.com - Sat, 15/12/2018 - 20:33
Several thousand demonstrators marched on Saturday evening in a new protest demanding fair and free elections in Serbia.
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Croatia Reduces Yugoslav Spy Chief's Jail Sentence

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 13:52
Zagreb County Court has decided to convert the life sentence given by a Munich court to the former Yugoslav State Security Service official Josip Perkovic to 30 years in prison.
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Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighters Cleared of Murdering Family

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 12:41
Former fighters Milorad Radakovic and Goran Pejic were acquitted on appeal of killing five members of a family in the village of Tukovi near Prijedor in June 1992.
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Romania Refuses to Extradite Journalist to Turkey

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 12:01
A Romanian court on Friday dismissed Ankara's request to extradite the journalist Kamil Demirkaya, a known critic of the Turkish government.  
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Book Documents Culture Buildings Used as Balkan War Jails

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 11:58
A new book documents how more than 20 cultural buildings in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina were used as detention facilities where people were tortured and killed during the 1990s wars.
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Kosovo Votes to Turn Security Force Into Army

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 11:50
The Kosovo parliament on Friday, as expected, adopted three draft laws on the Kosovo Security Force, FSK, giving the lightly armed force the attributes of an army.
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Estonia Denies Mistreating Serbian War Criminals in Jail

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 11:19
The Estonian authorities said that conditions in its prisons where war crimes convicts from the former Yugoslavia are serving their sentences comply with international standards.
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Romanian Language Takes Root in Moldova’s Gagauzia

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 07:50
A Romanian-language school in Moldova’s autonomous Gagauzia region says enrollment is rising, helping to break down barriers.  
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Homophobic Vandals Destroy LGBT Billboard in Bulgaria

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 07:50
The destruction of a campaign poster advocating LGBT rights in the seaside town of Varna has angered the rights group that put it up – as homophobic pressure mounts in Bulgaria.
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Kosovo Braces for Challenge of Forming ‘Army’

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 07:50
On the eve of a historic vote on transforming the current Kosovo Security Force into a body with army-like attributes, experts say it is only the beginning of a long process.
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Kosovo’s Panda Café Massacre Mystery Unsolved 20 Years On

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 14/12/2018 - 07:50
Two decades after the ‘Panda Café massacre’ of six young Serbs, which fuelled the war in Kosovo, no one has been convicted and ethnic Albanians who were wrongly arrested still suffer the consequences.
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Albania Students Spurn PM’s Appeal for ‘Dialogue’

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 13/12/2018 - 17:50
Student protests entered their ninth day in Albania on Thursday, when thousands again flooded the streets of Tirana and ignored Prime Minister Edi Rama’s appeal for talks.
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A Cunning Plan

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 13/12/2018 - 17:28
Across the region, governments and politicians are seeking to get various cunning (and not so cunning) plans past their citizens, primarily to cater to their own interests. 
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Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Fighter with Zvornik War Crime

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 13/12/2018 - 13:16
Dusan Spasojevic, a former member of a Serb-led Territorial Defence force, was charged with committing a war crime against a Bosniak in the Zvornik area in 1992.
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Macedonia Moves Forward With Amnesty Law

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 13/12/2018 - 12:11
A much-disputed law offering an amnesty to some of those involved in last year’s mob attack on the Macedonian parliament is moving closer towards adoption, following completion of a draft law.
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