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‘19,000 Fake War Veterans in Kosovo’: State Prosecutor

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 18:06
Kosovo’s state prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi alleged that there are around 19,000 fake Kosovo Liberation Army war veterans who are wrongfully taking benefits from government funds.
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Bosnian Constitutional Court Rejects Female Croat Fighter’s Appeal

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 15:14
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by former Croatian Defence Council fighter Indira Kameric, who was sentenced to four years in prison for abusing civilian detainees who were held at a football stadium.
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Fugitive Romanian Crime Boss Awaits Extradition from Britain

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 14:29
A Romanian human-trafficking ring leader who escaped arrest in May was caught in Britain and is now awaiting extradition to his home country.
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Romania Ruling Party Faces Backlash after Anti-Graft Protests

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 13:13
Romania's governing Social Democrat Party faces more turmoil after recent protests against its rule, as some members question its leader and the opposition seeks to ban politicians with corruption convictions from office.
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US Accuses Bosnian Serbs of ‘Trying to Deny History’

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 12:49
The US State Department accused the Bosnian Serb authorities of attempting to deny history by annulling a report on the 1995 Srebrenica massacres which accepted that Serb forces killed thousands of Bosniaks and breached humanitarian law.
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Must Kosovo Pay the Price of the EU’s Mistakes?

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 07:49
It is Kosovo’s fragile democracy that will pay the price of any deal struck by Hashim Thaci to partition the country. The EU should think twice.
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Serbian Bosniaks Ask to Change Schools’ Names

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 07:46
Representatives of the Bosnian National Council in Serbia asked the government to change the names of eight schools in a majority-Bosniak area of the country’s south and name them after prominent Bosniaks.
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Opposition to Kosovo Partition Unites Football and Religion in Serbia

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 07:46
Why has a Serbian Orthodox monk been tweeting pictures of football hooligans’ slogans against the suggested partition of Kosovo - and how did this respected religious figure suddenly become a tabloid ‘enemy of the state’?
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Old Electoral Roll Problems Plague Macedonia Referendum

Balkaninsight.com - Thu, 16/08/2018 - 07:45
Despite the change in power and many previous check-ups of the electoral roll to remove fictive voters, Macedonia’s list of voter remains marred by old problems, civil associations warn as the country prepares for the September 30 “name” referendum.
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Croatian Politician Fined for Saying Activists Should Be Shot

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 17:54
A former member of the governing Croatian Democratic Union was fined for threatening the Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO because of its campaign apologising to Serb victims of the 1995 military operation ‘Storm’.
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Radovan Karadzic’s Final Verdict Expected in December

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 17:21
The UN court in The Hague said it plans to hand down the final verdict in December this year in the trial of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who is appealing against his initial conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes.
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Kosovo Prosecutor Resigns After Alleged Threats

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 15:56
A special prosecutor who was dealing with sensitive cases involving terrorism charges and Kosovo Liberation Army war veterans has resigned after allegedly being threatened.
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US Army Tests Out Macedonian Military Training Centre

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 14:40
Some 200 soldiers from the US peacekeeping force in nearby Kosovo are giving Macedonia’s landmark Krivolak army training centre a test run for much bigger exercises planned for the near future.
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Russian Military Games on Dniester Anger Moldova

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 14:02
A Russian joint military exercise with Transnistrian separatist troops in which they simulated an attack on the Dniester River, the de facto border with Moldova, has boosted tensions in the former Soviet country.
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Croatian Singer Cancels Montenegro Gig over 'Stolen' Ship

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 10:52
Pop singer Ivana Vrdoljak, known as Vanna, cancelled a concert in Montenegro after critics at home complained she would be performing on a ship that they insist was “stolen” from Croatia during the war in 1991.
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US Plans to Upgrade Military Bases in Romania, Bulgaria

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 10:36
The US is set to invest almost $27 million in modernising two military bases in Romania and Bulgaria, according to its defence budget for 2019. 
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Macedonia Referendum Campaign Picks Up Pace

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 07:31
A month and a half before the referendum on the historic 'name' agreement with Greece, the campaigns in support of the deal and for a boycott of the plebiscite are heating up.
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Kosovo-Serbia Partition Could Spark New Balkan Conflicts

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 07:31
An exchange of territory between Kosovo and Serbia could provoke a chain reaction and cause instability across the Balkans, and the West needs to wake up to the potentially disastrous consequences.
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Kosovo Serb Priest Under Fire For Opposing Partition

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 07:31
Prominent Kosovo-based Serbian Orthodox priest Sava Janjic has come under intense criticism from the Belgrade authorities and pro-government media for opposing a territory swap between Serbia and Kosovo.
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For Serbian Journalists, Obedience is the Norm

Balkaninsight.com - Wed, 15/08/2018 - 07:30
Journalists in Serbia say censorship – and self-censorship – has become rife under an all-powerful president.
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