Tim Judah

This was Economist correspondent Tim Judah's gruelling eye-witness description of the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, after Russian forces left.

Namely, the situation became tense as self-proclaimed Kosovo introduced reciprocity with Serbia regarding license plates.
Juda wrote on Twitter that Serbian military reportedly driving around close to Kosovo border and Kosovo police deploying to the north.

This is the latest in a series of articles about the demographic crisis facing Central and Southeast Europe.

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Florian Bieber from Graz University asked what's the role of Matthew Palmer, recently appointed Special Representative of the US State Secretary for the Balkans.
"If Trump names Richard Grenell special envoy for Serbia & Kosovo, what is the role of Matthew Palmer?", Bieber wrote on Twitter.
He also added that this is "a worrying message for joint EU-US position".

Following the sad passing of Dejan Anastasijevic, his friends and colleagues have paid tribute to his full and impactful life, his sterling, courageous work in exposing the truth and his warm personality.

A new film by BIRN Serbia, "SNS - pocetak, 2008" ["SNS - the start, 2008"], delves into the origins and rise of the Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, which has ruled the country since 2012.

During the making of the film, BIRN journalists talked with many  individuals from Serbian public life, but also from the US, who had a role in the creation of the SNS.

According to him, the agreement should lead to a new UN Security Council resolution that would replace or abolish Resolution 1244, which would allow Kosovo to become a member of the UN. However, British reporter and analyst Tim Judah believes that the text of the agreement does not have to be in conflict with Resolution 1244.

"In the last few years in Moldova, we cannot talk about progress, but more about regression,"  Nadine Gogu, executive director of the Independent Journalism Centre in Chisinau, told the Media Policy Forum in the Moldovan capital on Tuesday.

At the biennial meeting of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Saturday, Ana Petruseva, director of BIRN Macedonia, said the situation facing the media in the Balkans "seems to be going from bad to worse".

A grand coalition between the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, led by Kadri Veseli, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, led by Ramush Haradinaj and Fatmir Limaj's initiative for Kosovo, NISMA, was agreed on Tuesday night - minutes before the deadline set by the Central Election Commission, CEC, to establish pre-election coalitions expired.