Geography of Kosovo

The Belgrade-funded parallel health system run by the Serbian minority in Kosovo is sending its COVID-19 test results to Serbia - with very little or no collaboration with Kosovo's own institutions.

Not only tests for COVID-19 in Serb-run municipalities in Kosovo but also the subsequent treatment of severe cases is taking place in Serbia.

Milena Ivanovic Popovic, the widow of murdered Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic, was proposed on Wednesday as a witness in a defamation case launched by businessman Milan Radoicic, who has been accused of leading a criminal organisation that killed Ivanovic.

Kosovo prosecutors have indicted a Serbian company for damaging one of the country's most famous monuments in what it calls faulty restoration work.

The indictment obtained by BIRN charges the Belgrade-based Koto company with using excavators that were not appropriate to restore the walls of the medieval fortress of Novo Brdo between July and September 2019.

Street artists have been decorating the walls of the Ibar bridge in Mitrovica with brightly-coloured murals during this month's Nomad festival, which is also part of a wider project called ARTivism which aims to connect communities through art.

The mayor of Drenas, Ramiz Lladrovci, announced on Friday that he has received an invitation to be interviewed by the Kosovo Specialist Prosecution in The Hague, which is investigating alleged violations by Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA fighters during and just after the 1998-99 war.

Rebic stressed that Belgrade is prepared to intervene if an exodus of the Serb people happens, adding that he is convinced that international community won't allow it.
"We are ready to react in case of the exodus of the Serb people, but we are convinced that international community will not allow it", Rebi stated for RTS.

The reason for the incursion is unknown, reports Prva TV reporter. It is also unknown where they are currently located.
According to unofficial information, a Kosovo police officer has been detained in northern Kosovo. A correspondent from Prva TV from Pristina also reports that the local media have no additional information.

Belgrade club delegation was not allowed to enter Kosovo and Metohija in order for its players to play the Serbian Cup match against Trepca from Kosovska Mitrovica.

He wrote that the board has been removed last night by Kosovo's law enforcement agencies, Gazeta Express daily reports.
"The board in Zubin Potok, about which media reported yesterday, was removed last night by law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Kosovo", Haradinaj stated.

"Serbs on Kosovo and Metohija presently need unity and the support of the Serbian state to survive and preserve their state and national interests", it is said in a statement of Civic Initiative SDP, carried by Kosovo online.