Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

Three years ago, on January 16, when unknown perpetrators fired six bullets into the body of Kosovo Serb opposition party leader Oliver Ivanovic in front of his office in the town of Mitrovica, people in Serbia and Kosovo were stunned, while Western diplomats feared that the murder of another politician in the Balkans could end the fragile dialogue to normalise relations between Belgrade and Pr

Kosovo-based human rights and transitional justice NGO Integra accused public broadcaster Radio on Wednesday of censoring its radio drama series 'Living with the Memories of the Missing' after an episode told the story of a Serb woman whose husband disappeared as a result of the 1990s conflict.

Serbia sent 55 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo on December 24 without informing the authorities in Pristina, BIRN has learned - an intervention that sparked anger in Pristina.

The prosecution in Kosovo said it was investigating how COVID-19 vaccines had reached the Serb-run north of the country from Serbia without the knowledge of the country's own institutions, the Chief Prosecutor in the municipality of Mitrovica, Shyqyri Syla, told BIRN on Monday.

A fresh draft Law on the Kosovo Philharmonic, Opera and Ballet, provided to BIRN by an official of the Ministry of Culture - aimed at amending the previous law passed by the UN rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, UNMIK - fails to resolve the key issue - the lack of a dedicated concert and performance hall.

The head of Kosovo's Missing Persons Commission, Kushtrim Gara, told BIRN that exhumations were carried out at ten locations in Kosovo and Serbia this year and "the mortal remains of at least 11 persons, victims of the war, were found and exhumed".

"In the coming weeks, following the joint hard work of the forensic team, more families will be able to close a very dark chapter in their lives," Fabien Bourdier of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in early December.

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Mining and Energy Zorana Mihajlovi, as well as the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovi, and his predecessor and appointed Ambassador of Serbia to the USA Marko Djuri.

It was June 13, 1999, and Uli Reinhardt, a photojournalist from the German news magazine Stern was due to meet his colleague Gabriel Gruener at 6pm in the southern Kosovo city of Prizren.

But Gruener would never arrive for the meeting, and could not be contacted by mobile phone because Kosovo's telecommunications system had been damaged in the war.

Electricity network system operator KOSTT began to operate independently on Tuesday in a newly-established regulatory area covering the whole of Kosovo, including the Serb-majority north of the country, Kosovo's Foreign Ministry announced.