Category: Balkans
Balkans 07.01.23 | 10:16

Tensions rise as two young Serbs were shot and wounded in Kosovo on the eve of Christmas

A suspected attacker was arrested in Kosovo, after shooting two Serbs, one of them an 11 year old boy and the other a 21 year old. The attacks were carried out near the village of Shtrpce, a Serbian enclave close to the border with Macedonia, on the eve of Orthodox Christmas, and a time of high tensions...
Balkans 04.01.23 | 13:59

SOC: MOC-OA is defacto not yet an autocephalous church

The Serbian Orthodox Church will accept any name for the MOC-OA, which will be the result of a pan-Orthodox consensus because, with the Tomos of the SOC on autocephaly, that question is left open and not resolved. This is how the bishop of Bačka, Irinej Bulović, in an interview with Serbian “Pecat”,...
Balkans 03.01.23 | 13:28

Vucic: How is it that the killing of Macedonian policemen was declared the most legitimate type of political struggle, so they all entered the Government and they don’t even make up 24%?

President Aleksandar Vucic made a comparison between the blockades of the Serbs in northern Kosovo and the rights of the Albanians in Macedonia and Montenegro. Edi Rama says: It is cynicism to say that barricades have been declared a legitimate means of democratic struggle. Is it? He is my friend and...
Balkans 02.01.23 | 20:58

One dead as minibus carrying migrants overturns in Greece

One person was killed and three seriously injured in north-eastern Greece when a fully loaded minibus overturned, local police said on Monday, according to Greek radio. It is not clear why the minibus, which had been carrying migrants, overturned. The driver, who is suspected of people smuggling, has...
Balkans 30.12.22 | 15:45

It is sold as a Greek product: The Greeks also took our ajvar, the authorities in Skopje are silent

Ajvar began to be sold in markets throughout Greece and Europe. This news would be completely normal and welcome if it was a product made in one of the factories in the Republic of Macedonia. But this is an authentic Greek product, produced by Liakada. The jar is labeled as “Hellenic cuisine”...
Balkans 30.12.22 | 09:41

Radev will hand over the mandate for Government to cadre from Petkov’s party

On January 3, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev will hand over the second mandate to form a government to the candidate for Prime Minister, appointed by the second largest parliamentary group in the Parliament – “We continue with the changes”, his office announced last night. That Bulgarian...
Balkans 29.12.22 | 10:19

Vučić announces Kosovo barricades will be taken down

The barricades set up by Serb militants in northern Kosovo will be removed within the next 24 to 48 hours, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said early Thursday according to state broadcaster RTS. The announcement comes after Vučić met representatives of Kosovo Serbs in the Serbian town of Raska...
Balkans 28.12.22 | 13:47

Assassin with Macedonian passport, Lainović, received Rolex watch as gift for job well done

Srdjan Lalic, a protected witness in the trial against Velja Nevolja, stated that their most loyal members usually received luxury “Rolex” watches as a reward for their work. Ljubomir Lainović, the assassin of Igor Dedović and Stevan Stamatović, received such a gift in a restaurant in...
Balkans 28.12.22 | 11:50

Kosovo closes main border crossing after roadblock in Serbia

Kosovo closed its biggest border crossing on Wednesday after protesters blocked it on the Serbian side to support their ethnic kin in Kosovo in refusing to recognise the country’s independence, Reuters reports. With two other crossings on the Serbian border closed by similar protests on their...
Balkans 27.12.22 | 11:04

Kurti announced that he will remove the Serbian barricades

Two new barricades have been erected n north Kosovo, this time in north Kosovska Mitrovica, of which one in the central part of the city, reported KoSSev, adding that these are the first barricades to be set up in Kosovska Mitrovica in the past 18 days, reports N1. A road in downtown north Kosovska Mitrovica...
Balkans 22.12.22 | 10:25

The assassin and the murdered leaders of the Skaljarski gang in Athens also had Macedonian passports

At the trial against Velja Nevolja’s gang, the witness Srdjan Lalic revealed new details related to the current government in Macedonia. For the first time, he revealed the killers of Igor Dedovic and Stevan Stamatovic who were murdered in a restaurant in Athens on January 19, 2020, while they...
Balkans 21.12.22 | 11:21

Bulgarians from Macedonia complained about their own country in the Parliament in Sofia

Representatives of the Bulgarian clubs in Ohrid, Bitola and Prilep from Macedonia were heard in the Bulgarian Parliamentary Committee on policies for Bulgarians outside Bulgaria, BNT reported. They complained about the systematic violation of the right to free expression and ethnic self-determination...
Balkans 19.12.22 | 13:50

Brnabic: I am afraid of escalation in Kosovo, I am disappointed by the international community

Prime Minister Ana Brnabić tells RTS that the Serbs in the north of Kosovo and Metohija are at the barricades because they are demanding basic human rights and nothing more. She points out that she is afraid of escalation, but that they will do everything to preserve peace and some kind of stability....
Balkans 18.12.22 | 11:30

Serbian Defense Minister: One spark is enough to ignite the situation in Kosovo

The Minister of Defense of Serbia, Milos Vucevic, said that the situation in Kosovo is “still very tense” and that “one spark is enough to set everything on fire.” Vucevic told today’s edition of Kurir that “it is obvious that a very perfidious war is being waged to...
Balkans 16.12.22 | 20:03

Will the return of Serbian forces in Kosovo restore peace and stability?

Serbian military representatives met with officers from the international KFOR force in Kosovo to submit a request for the deployment of 1,000 Serbian security personnel. Serbia insists that it has the right to this move, in accordance with the UN resolution 1244, and in light of the recent worsening...
Balkans 15.12.22 | 13:38

Bulgarian Church recognized MOC head as “Blessed Stefan Archbishop of North Macedonia”

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church at its regular session decided to recognize the tomos with which the Serbian Church granted autocephaly to the Macedonian Orthodox Church, MIA’s correspondent in Sofia reported. According to the decision, the BOC expresses a recommendation that the...
Macedonia Balkans 14.12.22 | 11:41

Bulgarian Church recognized MOC as “Orthodox Church in the Republic of North Macedonia” and HH Stefan as “Archbishop Stefan of Skopje”

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church at its regular session presided by Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte made a decided to recognize the tomos with which the Serbian Church granted autocephaly to the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian media reported. As reported by MIA’s correspondent...
Balkans 14.12.22 | 09:10

Although not recognized by five member states, Kosovo is applying for EU membership

A ceremony will be held in Pristina today at which the request for membership of Kosovo in the EU will be signed, Pristina media reported. The Kosovo presidency, as Pristina’s “Koha” reported, announced that the ceremony will take place at 11am. The application will be signed by President...
Balkans 13.12.22 | 13:39

His name was Predrag Popovic: In addition to the Macedonian one, Vukotic also had a Kosovo passport

Jovan Vukotic (44), the leader of the Skaljari gang, who was brutally murdered in September in Istanbul, entered the territory of Turkey with forged documents under the name of Predrag Popovic, which he obtained in Kosovo. According to the Montenegrin newspaper Pobjeda, Vukotic entered Turkish territory...
Balkans 12.12.22 | 10:45

Vucic: We have taken measures to protect our homeland, we call for peace

A special session of the Council for National Security was held on Sunday evening in Belgrade to discuss the security situation in Kosovo and further steps that are to be taken by Serbia, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, reports N1. The President said the Council calls for peace, for talks, requests...
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