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Researcher of KIPRED Adem Gashi

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In order for a common Albanian state to be promoted, the constitution needs to be changed first. Adem Gashi a researcher of the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development in an interview for DespiteBorders

Adem Gashi is working as a researcher of the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED), which is Kosovo’s leading political think tank. We have asked him for an interview on Kosovo’s parliamentary elections focusing on the Serbian political parties operating in Kosovo of Hashim Thaçi Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK)…

Chairman of Council for Human Rights Belgzim Kamberi

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Serbia is enforcing the conviction of not being engaged for ethnic Albanians living in Preshevo. Council for Human Rights Chairman – Belgzim Kamberi in an interview with DespiteBordes.

Belgzim Kamberi is chairman of Council for Human Rights in Bujanovac. He works as a freelance journalist and as Albanian human rights activist. He is defending rights of Serbian Albanians in various individual and collective rights. Editors of DespiteBorders portal have contacted Mr. Kamberi and made interview with him on currents in Preshevo Valley…

Chairman of the Kosovo front Alexander Alexandrovich Kravchenko

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Serbian Government is not interested in strong Serbian positions in Kosovo. Chairman of the Kosovo front Alexander Kravchenko told the DespiteBorders

Alexander Kravchenko is chairman of the Russian association Kosovo Front, which operates mainly in Russia but also Kazakhstan, Latvia and Ukraine. The organization was founded in response to the declaration of independence of Kosovo. Its main task is to help Serbians to solve the Kosovo question in an equitable manner. Kravchenko is also chief editor of the “Srpska.Ru”…

The leader of the National Movement Fatherland Professor Igor Vojinović. Source: www.vesti-online.com

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They betrayed Christ and Serbian nation. The leader of National Movement Fatherland Igor Vojinović in an interview for DespiteBorders

Igor Vojinović is the chairperson and leader of the Kosovo Serbian National Movement Fatherland (Otadžbina), which has put up long-lasting resistance against the activities of Kosovo Albanian authorities in the north of Kosovo. At the beginning of January 2011, Kosovo Police Service made a swoop in his house during which his belongings were seized and he was meant…

State Secretary Oliver Ivanović and Serbian leader in Kosovo Marko Jakšić

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Does Belgrade betray the interests of Kosovo Serbs? An interview with State Secretary Oliver Ivanović and the leader of Kosovo Serbs Marko Jakšić

Oliver Ivanović is the State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, former Speaker of the Serb National Council of Kosovska Mitrovica and former leader of Kosovo Serbs. He is a karate grandmaster. During the war, he was an active leader of Serbian home defense in the north of Kosovo. He was a member of the negotiation team at international talks on the status of Kosovo. Marko Jakšić…

Oliver Ivanović

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It is the people that are supposed to be the focus of attention and not the territory: An interview with the Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanović

Before the war Oliver Ivanović worked as a factory manager and as a professional karateist. After the beginning of the NATO led operations Ivanović organized his students at the karate class to take part in the defence of Kosovska Mitrovica against Albanians. Mr. Ivanović was among the one thousand five hundred Serbians defending the bridge over Ibar River, which eventually managed to stop the exodus…

Radovan Karadzic alias healer Dragan Dabic. Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com

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Serbia after the arrest of Radovan Karadžić – the condition of the discussion about relations with the EU and the stance on own past

After thirteen years, Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb heading Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992 – 1996, was among the last to be taken to the International Crime Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in order to face charges of war crimes committed during the worst military conflict in Europe in the 1990’s. That’s why the notion that not only his active political work, but also his arrest and extradition…

UN forces KFOR helicopter

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Stances of Balkan countries on the declaration of Kosovo’s independence

The independence of Kosovo declared on 18th February, 2008, remains hitherto controversial question since it hasn’t been even recognised by all “developed” countries. In this connection particularly the possible legal precedent and subsequent efforts of other regions to gain independence (from political point of view) are being discussed. All the more it may seem that this issue divides the Balkans into a multiethnic…

Peace sign on the streets of the divided capital of Cyprus, Nicosia

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Kosovo and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus – comparative analysis

Since February 2008, when Kosovo unilaterally declared independence, there is a new state on the world map. Kosovo is not the first “break away chunk of territory” that dared to declare independence. There have been several similar attempts all over the world in the past. However, the qualitative difference between all such declarations is that only the sovereignty of Kosovo has been recognized by a number of…

Allocation of seats in Serbian parliament. Source: cesid.org

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Old new Serbian dilemmas

Not even the constitutive session of Serbian Skupština on 11th June, 2008, has given an answer to the question how the future ruling coalition will look like. Official as well as unofficial coalition talks, which have been lasting for more than a month, hasn’t born any concrete results yet. It seems that Serbia has been facing the same dilemma like in 2000 when the political battle was under way between…