Albin Kurti

Hundreds of Kosovars rushed to Pristina airport to travel to EU countries on Monday after visas for Europe's open-borders Schengen zone were waived.

Kosovo was the only country in the Western Balkans whose citizens still needed visas to travel to the EU, many of whose members are part of the programme.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Friday that, by land-grabbing in a Serb-majority municipality, Pristina PM Albin Kurti's "occupation gauleiter" in northern Kosovska Mitrovica had taken a new step towards militarisation and occupation of the north of Kosovo-Metohija by Kurti's parapolice.

BELGRADE - Srpska lista, a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, has requested an urgent reaction by international representatives to halt an illegal decision by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti to unlawfully seize monies from a fund for development of the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday there was a synchronicity between developments on Serbia's domestic political scene and Pristina PM Albin Kurti's moves against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had again tried, unsuccessfully, to shift the blame for the failure of dialogue on Belgrade.

Claudia Tenney, who is also the co-chair of the Serbian caucus in the US Congress, submitted a bill that would suspend all aid to Pristina until it fulfills its obligations.

WASHINGTON - Former US presidential envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Richard Grenell said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's good management of a crisis generated by Pristina's extremist leader Albin Kurti had helped the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) win Sunday's elections in Serbia.

Serbs from Gornji Kusac, Vitina, Kosovska Kamenica and other places where Serbs live in Kosovo Pomoravlje already went to the polls in large numbers from 4:30 a.m. to fulfill their civic duty.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the head of the Western Balkans Division of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Niels Von Redecker in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE  - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday that, by refusing to receive a civic initiative for a dismissal of illegitimate mayors, the Albin Kurti-led authorities in Pristina had clearly demonstrated they were not interested in de-escalation and normalisation in the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.