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Albania Elections
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And The Winning Soundtrack is...

23 June 2009 | By Besar Likmeta

Is there any difference between an Albanian election and a turbo-folk festival?


Former Kosovo PM Released in Bulgaria
26 June 2009 |

Bulgarian authorities on Thursday released former Kosovo prime minister Agim Ceku from custody, after he was arrested two days earlier on an international warrant requested by Serbia for alleged war crimes.

Albania Opposition Supporters Clash With Police
26 June 2009 |

Supporters of the opposition Socialist Party clashed with police on Friday when a row erupted over the location of a rally to be held later this evening to finalize the electoral campaign.

Yugoslav Media War Mongers Evade Justice
24 June 2009 |

Court cases have confirmed the key role of the media in spreading hatred in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, yet no journalist has been tried.

By Nidzara Ahmetasevic





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“Old-style nationalism has no future in Macedonia” locked

Skopje | 18 June 2009 | By Darko Duridanski

Former interior minister Ljube Boskoski, making his comeback after four years in jail, explains how he can restore politics’ image, why VMRO ‘hasn’t got what it takes’ and why romantic nationalism has no future.

There Must Not be Another ‘Lost Generation’

Sarajevo | 12 May 2009 | By Aida Alic

Andrej Nosov, President of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights, YIHR, tells Aida Alic about the Days of Sarajevo festival in Belgrade, Serbia’s attitude towards its past and the crucial role artists can play in reconciliation.  

Unlocking the Dark Secrets of the KLA’s Camps locked

Belgrade | 16 April 2009 | By Gordana Igric

Michael Montgomery retraces the journey that led him to discover KLA detention camps in Albania and discusses the ICTY’s destruction of crucial evidence of possible organ trafficking in Burrel.

New Macedonia President Must Represent All locked

Skopje | 04 April 2009 | By Ana Petruseva

EU`s ambassador to Macedonia, Erwan Fouere,  talks to Ana Petruseva about the second round of the elections, the ‘name’ issue, and why the handling of the recent protest in Skopje left him profoundly disturbed.

Speaker: Kosovo Parliament 'World's Busiest' locked

Pristina | 26 March 2009 | By Krenar Gashi

Parliament speaker Jakup Krasniqi rebuts criticism contained in EU report that MPs are failing to hold the government to account.

EU Cannot Integrate Bosnia ‘Protectorate’ locked

| 12 March 2009 | By Srecko Latal in Sarajevo

Olli Rehn, Europe’s enlargement commisioner, says slow pace of reforms is undermining country’s accession hopes.

US Military Met With Mladic After Indictment locked

Belgrade | 05 March 2009 | By Branka Trivic

American Professor Charles Ingrao says research shows US military often encountered Hague tribunal’s top war-crimes indictee in 1996 but failed to arrest him because that was not then their policy.

Stanisic Case 'A Classic Espionage Tale' locked

Belgrade | 04 March 2009 | By Branka Trivic

Journalist Greg Miller of the Los Angeles Times speaks to Balkan Insight about the “classic espionage tale” of how the trusted chief of Slobodan Milosevic's intelligence service, Jovica Stanisic, was in fact working with the CIA in the 1990s.




 
 

All men are not made equal.


Southern Albania’s dramatic coastline is yet untouched by the blight of modern tourism. Communism brought few benefits to the country, but it did spare the area, blessed with a sea, sand and mountains, from the ravages of package holidays.


Real estate agents, only four months ago, were adamant that residential property in central Belgrade could not drop in value.

By Ian Mihajlovic



Sit in the posh seats, or hang around the walls of the fortress. Whichever you chose, if Belgrade’s alternative music scene is your thing, this is where you should be.


World renowned Albanian writer Ismail Kadare was awarded on Wednesday the Prince of Asturias prize, Spain’s highest literary recognition.


With the 15th iteration of the Sarajevo Film Festival scheduled to take place this August, this event has come to be seen as a symbol of the rejuvenation of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital.