Geography of Kosovo

ORAHOVAC - St. Cosmas and Damian's Monastery in Zociste near Orahovac in southern Kosovo-Metohija said Monday that an Albanian family has usurped monastery plots and that verbal provocations against the monks continue.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The steering team tasked with establishing the community of Serb municipalities dismissed on Saturday as completely untrue a statement by the Citizens' Initiative Serbia, Democracy, Justice (SDP) on support by representatives of the Serb community in Kosovo-Metohija regarding the idea of forming a so-called Kosovo army.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Serb political representatives in northern Kosovo-Metohija backed on Saturday the Serbian government and president in their demand that a "special security force" be set up in that part of the province.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Leader of Citizens’ Initiative ‘Serbia, Democracy, Justice (SDP) Oliver Ivanovic said Friday that he is feeling safer in a detention center in Kosovska Mitrovica.

Ivanovic was transferred to the detention center in the majority-Serb north Kosovska Mitrovica after spending 45 days and hunger striking for eight days in detention in Pristina.

ZUBIN POTOK – The deputy commander of the police station in the town of Zubin Potok in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has been suspended for failure to secure a detainee, who managed to escape from police custody with the help of a group of people on Wednesday, Kosovo Police regional head of operations Zeljko Bojic has said.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The police on the Jarinje crossing in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) require bus drivers to produce the so-called passenger lists containing the names of citizens travelling from central Serbia to KiM and back.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - United Regions of Serbia (URS) Presidency member Danijela Vujicic said on Thursday that the Brussels Agreement will not be implemented to the full extent if Pristina continues to insist on the statehood of Kosovo.

"Cooperation suspended until police commander is reinstated"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The Kosovo police have suspended the deputy commander of the Zubin Potok station, after a group of people broke into the station and freed a detained Serb.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic condemned on Thursday the forcible freeing of Serb Slobodan Sovrlic from the police station in Zubin Potok, northern Kosovo, stressing that there must be order.

"There must be order and therefore such events are not good and must be met with condemnation," Dacic told reporters.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Councilors of the North Mitrovica municipality, northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), have adopted their municipal charter and the newly-elected mayor Goran Rakic was sworn in.

Of the total of 18 councilors present at the meeting late on Wednesday, 13 voted in favor and five voted against the document.