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Musings Ahead of February 17

12 February 2009 | By Krenar Gashi

Krenar Gashi The first year after a country declares independence is crucial. Either the country gains momentum, and a clear course of how statehood will work is set, or the opportunity is missed. 


Obama Congratulates Kosovo On Independence
16 February 2009 |

United States President Barack Obama has sent an official note of congratulations to Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu ahead of the first anniversary of Kosovo's February 17, 2008 declaration of independence.

Obama Congratulates Kosovo On Independence
16 February 2009 |

United States President Barack Obama has sent an official note of congratulations to Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu ahead of the first anniversary of Kosovo's February 17, 2008 declaration of independence.

Indictment against Golubovic confirmed
16 February 2009 |

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms the indictment against Blagoje Golubovic for crimes committed in Podkolun village, in Foca Municipality.




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Difference Between Tabloids and Serious Media Erased

| 16 February 2009 | By Aleksandar Roknic, Belgrade

Radovan Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic

Most analysts considered Serbian media reports on the arrest on July 21, 2008 of the Hague tribunal’s most wanted indictee, Radovan Karadzic, as written in a sensational, uncritical and unobjective way.

Karadzic as Celebrity

| 16 February 2009 | By Goran Jungvirth, Zagreb

Radovan Karadzic - Dragan Dabic
Radovan Karadzic - Dragan Dabic

Although many Croatian citizens and media were happy to see Radovan Karadzic, one of the most wanted war crimes fugitives, arrested in late July 2008, most coverage of the event consisted of reporting on his transformation into a pseudo-doctor, his holidays in Croatia and his alleged affair with a woman who accompanied him during his lectures on alternative treatments. 

The Two Last Cards

| 16 February 2009 | By Krenar Gashi, Pristina

Radovan Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic

The Kosovo media gave the arrest on July 21, 2008 of war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic an important place in the news schedules. While the arrest itself made the front cover in most media, the follow-up to this event also produced many surprises for Kosovo’s media scene. 

Reading Between the Lines

| 16 February 2009 | By Nedjeljko Rudovic, Podgorica

Radovan Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic

The two most influential daily newspapers in Montenegro reported on the arrest in July 2008 of Radovan Karadzic from very different angles, underlining the stark divisions and continued strength of pro-Serbian sentiment there. 

War Criminal or Poet?

| 16 February 2009 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic in Sarajevo


To the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was a true sensation, and one to be exploited day after day.  

Serbia 'Closer To Mladic Arrest' - Official

Belgrade | 16 February 2009 |

Rasim Ljajic
Rasim Ljajic

Serbia has more reasons now to be optimistic regarding the arrest of both remaining war crimes fugitives than a few months ago, said Rasim Ljajic, the country’s point man for cooperation with the Hague war crimes court.


 
 

As thoughts turn to the romance of St. Valentine’s Day, we meet Belgrade artisans and shopkeepers whose work is also their passion.


This famous hilltop metropolis, once famous for its silver production but long since fallen into ruins, makes for an atmospheric day out.


Despite initial and widespread pessimism about the development of Bulgaria's real estate market in the middle of the global financial crisis, the sector evolved and adjusted to the new realities having escaped the worse case scenario.



Shega A’Mula takes a peak at the run-down condition of Pristina’s once prestigious train station.


Relations between refugees and the host country are rarely easy. Between those who offer - and those who receive - hospitality, there so often seems to grow up a barely veiled hostility in which mutual incomprehension and disappointed expectations form principal ingredients.


Photo exhibition ‘Delirium’ of Mimoza Veliu is opened in National gallery in Pristina. The importance of experiencing this artwork is high.