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Kosovo Citizen Arrested for Usury After BIRN Contacted Prosecutors
Kosovo police have arrested a man named as Driton Podrimqaku after a citizen from the western Kosovo town of Peja/ Pec reported to BIRN about being the victim of usury - defined in Kosovo law as taking advantage of a person's economic circumstances to extract disproportionate services or rates of interest on loans.
Kosovo Court Reopens Sensitive Murder Trial Following BIRN Findings
The Basic Court at Peje/Pec in Kosovo has ordered the reopening of the trial for the murder of a 29-year-old following a series of dramatic developments in recent days that caught public attention.
"The main trial is reopened," Presiding Judge Violeta Husaj Rugova declared on Friday, explaining that further completion of "the criminal proceedings" was now necessary.
Kosovo Court Convicts Serb Ex-Fighter of War Crimes
Pristina Basic Court found Zoran Djokic guilty on Thursday of war crimes against the ethnic Albanian civil population in the town of Peja/Pec during the Kosovo war in 1999 and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.
Montenegrin Activists Urge End to Hydropower Plant Construction
Environmental activists in Montenegro have submitted a petition to parliament calling for a moratorium on the construction of small hydro-power plants due to the impact on rivers and water supply.
20 years since start of heroic Battle of Kosare
The Battle of Kosare was fought on the slopes of Junik and Prokletije mountains, on the border with Albania, where our army heroically resisted, without retreating by an inch, a multi-week offensive mounted by the terrorist KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army"), the Albanian army, and the mujahideen, backed up by the Western military alliance's bombs.
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Green Campaigners Win Right To Sue Albanian Govt
Environmentalists in Albania and locals from four villages in the Tropoja on Friday hailed a court ruling allowing them to sue government ministries that have given private companies concessions to build hydropower plants on the Valbona River in the so-called Albanian Alps.
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Albanian Activists Mull Lawsuits to Stop Power Plants
Activists in the northern Albanian region of Tropoja are preparing to submit lawsuits to halt the planned construction of hydropower plants on the Valbona river and its tribunaries, claiming it will destroy tourism in the so-called "Albanian Alps".
Campaigners say Power Plants will Wreck 'Albania's Alps'
Environmental activists and local residents are upping their campaign to stop the building of six hydropower plants on the Valbona river, arguing that they will destroy tourism in what some call the "Albanian Alps".
Montenegro Searches For its Last, Lost Lynxes
Montenegro has launched a "Lynx Recovery Programme" in order to find out whether any remaining lynxes still live in remote corners of the country - and offer protection if they do.
Only about a hundred lynxes now survive in the wild in the whole of the Balkans, spread over Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, and some experts fear the number may be as low as only 40.
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