North Mitrovica
Street in North Mitrovica named after Oliver Ivanovic
At the suggestion of Serb List parliamentary group, the councillors decided to rename Nemanjina street, where the Kosovska Mitrovica municipality building was located, to Olivera Ivanovica street.
After the assassination of Ivanovic, his party colleagues and sympathizers started a petition asking that a street in the town be named after him.
Kosovo Serbs Name Street After Murdered Politician Ivanovic
The assembly in the northern Serb-run side of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica has named a street after the murdered politician Oliver Ivanovic – angering Ivanovic’s party, which said it had another street in mind.
Kosovo Serbs Want Belgrade to Run Education, Welfare, Health
Leaked documents that BIRN has seen reveal that Kosovo Serb stakeholders that the team tasked to draft the controversial statute in Kosovo on the Association of Serbian Municipalities consulted believe the statute should allow the education and health sectors to remain reliant on Serbia.
Another attack in Kosovo: Serb stabbed in chest and back
Radio Kontakt Plus is reporting this, adding that the young Serb was taken to the hospital in northern Kosovska Mitrovica with stab wounds.
The victim's brother was also injured when he was attacked with pepper spray, the radio said it learned unofficially.
Normalising Ties Essential, EU Tells Serbia, Kosovo
Another of a new expected meeting between the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia, the Council of the European Union has said that progress by Serbia and Kosovo towards normalisation of their relations is essential - and will determine the pace of their respective European integrations.
Serbian Journalist Probing Ivanovic Murder Reported Missing
Serbian police on Thursday said they had started a search for Stefan Cvetkovic, a journalist covering the murder of the Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, after his abandoned car was found in his hometown of Bela Crkva in northern Serbia.
The police said they found the car Cvetkovic was using parked with the doors open and the lights still on.
Thaci Says Kosovo Probing Djuric's Paraded Arrest
In an interview with BIRN's TV show Jeta ne Kosove, the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said the authorities were investigating why the head of Serbia's Kosovo office, Marko Djuric, was paraded publicly through the streets in handcuffs after his arrest.
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Kremlin after Kosovo phone call: "Provocative action"
According to the statement, Putin and Vucic "discussed matters related to the Kosovo settlement in the context of the provocative action against Director of the Serbian Governments Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric, taken by the Pristina authorities in Kosovska Mitrovica on March 26."
Pristina given three weeks to start forming ZSO
Councilors from ten Serb-majirity municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija also unanimously adopted their conclusions.
They announced establishing the Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) themselves, unless Pristina took "concrete steps in the next three weeks" to do form it.
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Arrested Serbian official paraded through Pristina/VIDEO
Earlier in the day, Djuric, the director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, was arrested in northern Kosovska Mitrovica.
Members of special Kosovo police parked their armored cars near the police station, and then led Djuric, whose hands were held behind his back, out and into the station, while the cameras were rolling.