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However, he said he would not move to Kosovo, i.e., to the town of Pec.

The media reported at the beginning of the week that the Serbian Orthodox Church is preparing major changes in May to the way its leader is elected, and to its internal organization and name.

The new official name of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) will be the Serbian Orthodox Church - the Patriarchate of Pec, a reference for the Patriarchate of Peja in Kosovo territory, Gazeta Express writes.

The Serbian church will change its name to incorporate the words 'Patriarchate of Pec' as part of its new constitution, which should be adopted in May, Serbian daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti reported on Tuesday. 

Kosovo Police said they raided Serbian Red Cross centres on the authorisation of the courts on Wednesday night in Prizren, Pristina, Pejë/Pec, Gjilan/Gnjilane and Mitrovicë/Mitrovica.

"Seized documents are suspected to be related to a census, considered suspicious and in contradiction to the law, as a census should be conducted by Kosovo institutions," the police press release said.

A protected witness, K1, one of the members of Naser Kelmendi's alleged crime ring, testified against his alleged former boss on Monday, stating that the group smuggled heroin from Turkey through Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia to Bosnia, where it was sold to different European countries.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has said it is funding Turkey's investment in a new high-tech fiber-optic submarine communications cable system that will carry data between 17 countries, from Singapore to France and Italy, in written statement on Sept. 21.

The Unidentified, which names the Serbian officers who ordered attacks on Kosovo villages around the town of Pec/Peja in 1999 and those involved in the cover-up operation to hide the victims' bodies, was awarded the best short documentary prize at the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Twelve former Yugoslav Army troops who are being retried for allegedly killing more than 118 Kosovo Albanians near the town of Pec/Peja in 1999 have pleaded not guilty.

A spate of recent incidents in Kosovo Serb villages in the western Kosovo Peja area have left locals feeling nervous, although it remains unclear what provoked them.

Since last week, the village of Gorazdevac saw two shooting incidents, one at the police and one at a car with Belgrade license plates.

Representatives of the Bosniak community in Kosovo's parliament want more higher educational programmes in their language to "meet the needs of the minority community" and stop Bosniaks students from having to go abroad.