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Reported Attacks on Kosovo Serbs Worry Serbian President

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 17:05
Aleksandar Vucic expressed concern after several reported attacks on Serbs in Kosovo in recent days, although Kosovo police have insisted that some of the Serbian media coverage was false.
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Bulgarian City Stirs Tensions by Changing Place Names

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 16:53
A city council's decision to scrap names that sound Turkish or Arabic has drawn complaints from ethnic Turkish parties and the country's Grand Mufti – who called it racist and intolerant.
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Kosovo Abbot Says Montenegro Highway is Illegal

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 16:18
Sava Janjic, the Serbian Orthodox abbot at the centre of a row over a new road to Montenegro, tells BIRN he won't let Kosovo 'illegally' turn a country lane into an 'international road' without a fight.
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Erdogan Rival Rallies Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 13:14
Ahead of snap elections in Turkey, Muharrem Ince, from the Turkish Republican People's Party, barnstormed one of Bulgaria's mainly ethnic Turkish towns, addressing some 5,000 supporters.
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Curuvija Murder: Serbian Police Deny Getting Evidence Illegally

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 13:13
A witness at the trial for the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija denied defence claims that evidence allegedly placing former State Security officers at the scene of the crime was obtained illegally.
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Tirana Court Dismisses Judge’s Defamation Claim Against BIRN

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 12:46
An Albanian court dismissed a claim of “moral anguish” brought by a judge and his wife against BIRN Albania.
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Serbian Fact-Checker Deems Most Vucic Claims False

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 12:34
After analyising Aleksandar Vucic's claims and statements during his first year as Serbia's President, the fact-checking website Istinomer has rated most of them misleading or incorrect.
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Vila Obrenovica: Former Royal Home with Tumultuous Past

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 07:21
From the summer palace of Serbia’s vanished Obrenovic dynasty to a German hospital and a post-World War II ‘forbidden zone,’ this beautiful mansion offers a glimpse into a court life as it once was.
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Citizenship Offer For Rich Investors Divides Moldova

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 07:19
Planned amendments to the law granting citizenship to wealthy foreign investors have split the country's parliament – with some claiming it will only worsen Moldova's reputation for corruption. 
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Can Russia Use Energy to Renew Its Grip on Bulgaria?

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 07:18
The proposed revival of the Belene nuclear power plant project, with Russian involvement, shows again how Moscow is seeking to capture strategic sectors of Bulgaria’s economy and use them as political tools.
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Macedonia to Lift Nighttime Ban on Liquor Sales

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 07:17
Macedonia is to lift the nocturnal curfew on selling alcoholic beverages in stores, which the government says failed to prevent youth drinking but hurt the local wine-producing industry.
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Kosovo Telecom Staff Threaten Strike Over Pay Cut

Balkaninsight.com - Fri, 06/01/2018 - 07:16
After the Kosovo Prime Minister said they might have to take a big pay cut to save the company, workers at the embattled Kosovo Telecom firm have warned of strikes and protests.
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Kosovo Quits Brussels Talks Until Serbia Implements Deals

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 18:46
Kosovo will not take any further part in the EU-led dialogue in Brussels with Serbia until Belgrade has fully implemented six agreements, a leaked email which BIRN has seen reveals.
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Bosnia Upholds Female Croat Fighter’s War Crimes Sentence

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 16:22
Bosnian Croat ex-fighter Azra Basic’s appeal was rejected and she was jailed for 14 years for taking part in the killings, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war in 1992.
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Serbian Security Service ‘Not Involved in Bosnia Violence’

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 16:19
Former Serbian State Security Service official Franko Simatovic’s lawyer told the UN court that the service had nothing to do with wartime violence in Bosnian municipalities which Serb forces took over in spring 1992.
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Bulgaria Promises to Probe Groups' 'Gulenist' Ties

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 15:13
Bulgaria's Interior Minister said the country would act on a Turkish request to probe 14 groups allegedly connected to the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen – while Bosnia confirmed that a Bosnian 'Gulenist' had been arrested in Turkey.
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Vojislav Seselj Criticised for Visiting Serbian PM’s Killer

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 15:10
In the latest in a series of provocative stunts, Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj pledged to seek a review of Milorad Ulemek’s conviction for the 2003 murder of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
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Ups and Downs

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 14:51
While some political parties, bilateral relationships and even entire countries are seeing their fate going downwards, relations between others are going in a distinctly upward direction. 
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Macedonian Church Gets Entangled in 'Name' Dispute

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 14:31
As Athens and Skopje move closer towards solving their dispute over Macedonia's name, Macedonia’s Orthodox Church and Prime Minister have denied agreeing that the church should change its name as well.
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Bosnian ‘White Ribbon Day’ Honours Prijedor War Victims

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 05/31/2018 - 14:27
People wore white ribbons at events around Bosnia to commemorate the victims of crimes against non-Serbs in the north-eastern town of Prijedor in 1992 and all those who died during the rest of the war.
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