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02 Apr 13

Kosovo War Victims Not Ready for Serbia Reconciliation

Kosovo has started work on a reconciliation strategy, but relatives of victims of the war and its violent aftermath are sceptical that justice can be done, 14 years after the conflict ended.

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28 Mar 13

Kosovo Partisans Set to Lose Their Memorial

As Kosovo dismantles its remaining Yugoslav-era heritage, the memorial to WW2 fighters is to make way for a complex dedicated to independence leader Ibrahim Rugova.

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14 Feb 13

Kosovo’s War Veterans Plead Poverty and Neglect

Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas believed they were fighting for freedom, but 14 years after the war with Serbian forces, some of Pristina’s ‘heroes’ are struggling for survival.

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01 Feb 13

Asylum Seekers Transform Sleepy Balkan Villages

Serbia and Macedonia are struggling to cope with the fast growing number of asylum seekers crossing their countries on their way to Western Europe.

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17 Jan 13

Kosovo Minorities Keep Sound of Music Alive

Music remains a precious tradition - an art form as well as a way of life - for many members of Kosovo's Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities.

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19 Oct 12

D.J.s Lament Shrinking Electronic Music Scene in Kosovo

Electronic music is giving space to mixed menu in Kosovo, a sign of lesser money flowing around the country but also perhaps of a new more diversity-hungry period. 

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23 Aug 12

Kosovo Gang Stole Millions from Kurdish VIP in Spain

Four Kosovo Albanians are accused of stealing almost 2 million euro of jewels and goods from the Barcelona hotel room of a Kurdish general, the son of the Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.

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19 Jul 12

Serb Murders Strike Fear Into Kosovo Village

The murder of a well-respected Serbian couple has left their once peaceful village in rural Kosovo in shock.  

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05 Jul 12

Pop Star Urges Albanians to Have More Kids

Albanian pop star pleads with her compatriots to regain their taste for babies, as evidence shows that family sizes are shrinking fast.

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01 May 12

Kosovo’s Vetevendosje Keep Faith in Graffiti

The Self-determination movement may have gone from street movement to the third largest party in parliament – but they have no intention of relinquishing one of their most powerful weapons.

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27 Apr 12

Albanians Pack Up in Kosovo’s Troubled North

While Albanians are leaving the Serb-run enclave of northern Mitrovica, fearing the endemic violence, Serbs in the rest of the country feel increasingly nervous about their own future.

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12 Apr 12

Sljivancanin Turns His Prison Days Into Print

A new book by the man behind the torture of Croat prisoners in Vukovar in Croatia sheds fresh light on how former mortal enemies in the Yugoslav wars get along behind prison walls.

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27 Mar 12

Abeja: Half a Century Grooming Pristina

In his 50 years tending to Pristina’s hair, Abeja has mastered styles ranging from “punk” to “Tarzan”, coiffeured three generations of the same family and picked up 300 God children.

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13 Mar 12

Closing Time for Pristina’s Watchmaker

One of the capital’s oldest watchmakers is set to close when the shop is bulldozed as part of a municipal project to craft a new central square for Pristina, but the craft will live on.

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15 Feb 12

Artists Long to Escape Kosovo Ghetto

Artists hope that long-promised visa liberalisation with the EU will help end their enforced isolation from European culture.