Kosovo

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said Friday he hoped the special court set up to try crimes committed by the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army" ("KLA") would help rid the Kosovo public scene of people responsible for crimes.

BELGRADE - Imposing sanctions on Moscow would be fatal for Serbia itself, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin told the Vecernje novosti daily in an interview.

"We see that the Serbian leaders are not considering such an option at all, and many EU member states are also looking for a possibility to abandon the sanctions," he said.

THE HAGUE - David Schwendiman, lead prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers - set up to try crimes committed by the "Kosovo Liberation Army" - held in The Hague on Thursday his first press conference since his appointment.

He declined to speculate on the number of future indictments and on when they will be raised.

BELGRADE - Students from Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Pristina University sent a letter to local media on Friday calling for the demolition or repurposing of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, BIRN reports.

BRUSSELS - A deal preventing a scrapping of Serbian vehicle registration plates in Kosovo-Metohija and extending the validity of status-neutral KS plates for another five years has been agreed in the technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

BELGRADE - Serbia will never accept Kosovo-Metohija's independence, and it meets the conditions for EU accession as long as a recognition of Kosovo is not required, Serbian presidential adviser Stanislava Pak said in a comment on a statement by German Foreign Office official Michael Roth, who said that, before Serbia's EU accession, everything must be clear regarding Kosovo.

BELGRADE - A group of Russian journalists from theNews Front agency has been detained in Kosovo, the news agency's director Konstantin Knyrik told Interfax.

Kosovo has expelled a Russian and a Ukrainian journalist on Friday after police found them in the country without visas.

A group of students from Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Pristina University sent a letter to local media on Friday calling for the demolition or repurposing of the church whose construction began during Slobodan Milosevic's rule in the 1990s.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo head Marko Djuric says he hopes a new court would help rid the Kosovo public scene of people responsible for crimes.