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Balkan Insight is a specialist news outlet focused on in‑depth reporting across Southeast Europe, with a strong emphasis on the Western Balkans and neighboring countries.
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Three Kosovo Serbs Plead Not Guilty Over 2022 Unrest in North (opens the original)
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Barricades set up by Kosovo Serbs on a road in Rudare leading to the Jarinje border crossing with Serbia, December 2022. Photo: Adelina Ahmeti/BIRN. Three Kosovo Serbs, Dusan Maksimovic, Nemanja Jolovic and Srdjan Vucinic, pleaded not guilty at the Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday to violating the constitutional order by participating in setting up roadblocks in the north of the country in December 2022. A fourth defendant, Nenad Orlovic, was not present in court. Judge Rrahman Beqiri said that
Kosovo’s Kurti Pushes for Deal on President to Avoid Elections (opens the original)
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Photos of Kosovo’s presidents. Photo: BIRN/Denis Sllovinja With a court deadline to elect a new President approaching, Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Wednesday called on opposition leaders to take urgent steps to address the issue, which risks triggering another legislative election only five months after the last one. Last week, the Constitutional Court ordered MPs to elect a new head of state by October 6 to avoid new snap elections – the fourth parliamentary polls in two years. “The Constituti
Bosnia Mourns Wartime Co-Inventor of Limb-Saving Medical Device (opens the original)
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Enes Baralic, who co-created a revolutionary external medical fixator that prevented thousands of limb amputations during the siege of Sarajevo, has died aged 84. During the 1992–1995 Bosnian war, the city endured a 1,425-day siege by Bosnian Serb forces. Amid relentless shelling, local hospitals faced an overwhelming influx of casualties, with nearly 70 per cent suffering severe limb trauma caused by bullets and shrapnel. As imported medical supplies were rapidly exhausted under a total humanit
Tracing Illicit Cigarette Flows over Mountainous Bosnia-Montenegro Borderland (opens the original)
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This post is also available in this language: Bos/Hrv/Srp Police believe it was from a house in mountainous eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina that Nebojsa Miletic observed the movements of Bosnian border police – when they patrolled, the paths they took and, most importantly, the shift changes that left the border momentarily unprotected. The forbidding terrain, crisscrossed by rural roads, is ideal for anyone wishing to slip across the border undetected. Forty-three-year-old Miletic, from the vill
Will Albania’s Handling of ‘Flamingo’ Protests Affect its EU Accession Progress? (opens the original)
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Albania has entered a new phase in its negotiations with the European Union. All 33 negotiating chapters have now been opened, three of which were provisionally closed in July. Now – as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visits Tirana – the big question is not which chapters will come next but how Albania’s political and social climate will shape the assessment Brussels makes of it in the months ahead. Please login to your account below if you are already a Premium Subscriber. Ou
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