Bosnia Detains Another Suspect Over U.S. Embassy Attack

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November 14, 2011

Bosnia's state court has said it is detaining for one month a man suspected of assisting a gunman who fired at the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo....more...
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Al-Jazeera Launches Balkans Network

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November 11, 2011

On November 11, Pan-Arabic television network Al-Jazeera is set to launch its Balkans network, which will broadcast in local languages....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/al_jazeera_launches_balkans_network/24388037.html

Bosnia Jails Islamists For Planning Attacks

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November 10, 2011
A court in Bosnia has jailed three radical Islamists for up to 4 1/2 years for planning attacks in the Balkan country in 2007-2008....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/bosnia_jails_islamists_for_planning_attacks/24387353.html

Ailing Ratko Mladic Misses Court Appearance

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November 10, 2011
Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic says he is too ill to attend a war crimes court hearing at which he is scheduled to enter a plea to a fresh count of multiple killings.....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/sick_ratko_mladic_misses_court_appearance/24387062.html

Police Say Serb Injured In Kosovo Clash Dies

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November 10, 2011

Police and hospital officials say an ethnic Serb injured by gunfire during a clash between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo's north has died.
Two other injury victims, including a policeman, are still being treated.
Police spokesman Besim Hoti said Savo Mojsic died in a hospital in the Serb-run part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica on November 10 after a three-hour surgery....more..
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Macedonia Unhappy With Greece Over Progress With Name Dispute

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November 07, 2011

PRAGUE -- Macedonia is concerned at the lack of progress in UN-mediated talks with Greece about the country's formal name, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
Greece and Macedonia have been at loggerheads over the use of the name "Macedonia" for nearly two decades.
Macedonia was admitted to the UN under the name Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) because Greece lays claim to the toponym "Macedonia" as part of its classical heritage....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/macedonia_unhappy_with_greece_over_progress_with_name_dispute/24383910.html

Russian Diplomat Criticized For Speech At Serbian Opposition Rally

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November 02, 2011

BELGRADE -- The Serbian ruling party has criticized a speech by the Russian ambassador to Belgrade at a nationalist party rally as meddling by Moscow in Serbia's internal affairs, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
Six weeks after he blasted Serbian politicians and intellectuals at a Belgrade security forum for leaving it to Russia to defend Serbian interests abroad, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin praised the nationalist Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) at a rally in Belgrade on October 29....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/russian_diplomat_criticized_for_speech_at_serbian_opposition_rally/24379085.html

The Results Of Hate Speech And Inaction In Bosnia

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October 31, 2011

By Nenad Pejic
Last week, 23-year-old Mevlik Jasarevic made headlines when he got off a tram outside the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo and began firing an automatic rifle.
But his journey began several hours earlier that morning, when he crossed the border from Serbia into Bosnia-Herzegovina. Jasarevic is a Serbian citizen.
Stepping from tram No. 3, Jasarevic reportedly yelled "Run! Run away!" at passersby as he pulled an AK-47 from his backpack and began to fire. He continued to shoot for some 20 minutes before a police sniper shot him in the leg. It was later revealed that he had two explosives on him, but he apparently made no attempt to activate them. In fact, he stood calmly at the tram stop throughout the incident, making no effort to leave or to take cover....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/results_of_hate_speech_and_inaction_in_bosnia/24377389.html

Serbian Military Call-Up Notices Spark Sharp Backlash

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September 21, 2011

By Ljudmila Cvetkovic
BELGRADE -- Serbs are expressing alarm at reports that the Defense Ministry is distributing notices telling people to join the military reserves and report for basic training.
The reports come as tensions with neighboring Kosovo -- formerly a Serbian province, and whose independence Belgrade does not recognize -- have been running high amid a sometimes violent dispute over border crossings.
The Belgrade Helsinki Committee for Human Rights announced this week that an undetermined number of men had received the notices....more...
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Serbian Premier Murder Convict Alleges High-Level Conspirators

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September 21, 2011

BELGRADE -- The revelation that a Serb convicted of plotting the 2003 assassination of pro-Western Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has named several high-ranking politicians as having knowledge of plans for the killing has caused a media storm, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
Milos Simovic told prosecutors one year ago in a signed affidavit -- which was only recently released to the Serbian media -- that several high-ranking nationalist figures, including then Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, knew about the preparations for the assassination....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/djindjic_assassination_conspirators/24335476.html

Kosovo Serbs Maintain Blockades In Mitrovica

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September 17, 2011

Local Serbs are maintaining blockades of two bridges in the city of Mitrovica, in the north of Kosovo.
Overnight, rival groups of young Serbs and Kosovar Albanians threw rocks at each other on a blocked bridge over the Ibar River, which divides the city's two communities....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovo_serbs_maintain_blockades_in_mitrovica/24331437.html

Kosovo Deploys Customs Officials To Disputed Border Crossings With Serbia

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Last updated (GMT/UTC): 16.09.2011 11:14

WATCH: Kosovar and EU police and customs officers are deployed at two contested border crossings with Serbia in northern Kosovo on September 16. Meanwhile, some 1,000 Kosovo Serbs gathered in the town of Mitrovica to protest what they called "unilateral action" by Kosovo Albanians. (Reuters video)
By Milos Teodorovic

NORTHERN KOSOVO -- Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci says Kosovo police and customs officials, together with personnel from the European Union's law enforcement mission, have been deployed at two disputed crossings on the border with Serbia....more...
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Rising Kosovo Border Tensions Elicit UN, OSCE Appeals

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Last updated (GMT/UTC): 16.09.2011 08:01

By Nikola Krastev
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have renewed calls for calm amid growing tensions in northern Kosovo.
Ethnic Serbs in the north of Kosovo oppose plans by Kosovo's mainly ethnic Albanian leaders to deploy police and customs agents there at two border crossings with Serbia....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/un_security_council_discusses_kosovo_tensions/24330055.html

Kosovar Serbs Block Key Bridge On Way To Border

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September 15, 2011

MITROVICA -- Serbs have blocked the main bridge connecting the southern (Albanian) and northern (Serb) parts of Kosovo one day before the deployment of Kosovar police and customs officials at two border crossings with Serbia, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovar_serbs_block_key_bridge_on_way_to_border/24329921.html

NATO's Rasmussen Urges Kosovo, Serbia For Calm

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September 15, 2011

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the military alliance will not allow the Balkan region to slip back into violence amid simmering tensions between Kosovo and Serbia over a border dispute.
Rasmussen made the comments during a brief visit to Pristina, a day before Kosovo authorities are to deploy police and customs officials at two disputed border crossings with Serbia....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/nato_rasmussen_urges_kosovo_serbia_calm/24329540.html

Tension Flares As Kosovo Prepares To Reopen Northern Border Post

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September 14, 2011

PRISTINA -- Kosovo says it will reopen two border outposts in its Serb-dominated north this week in a move that could reignite tensions that led to deadly clashes in July, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
In an interview with RFE/RL on September 13, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said Kosovo’s government would take control of custom points 1 and 31 on September 16....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/tension_flares_as_kosovo_prepares_to_reopen_northern_border_posts/24328550.html

Tensions Rise In Northern Kosovo

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Last updated (GMT/UTC): 14.09.2011 07:50

Tensions are rising in the north of Kosovo as Pristina's mainly ethnic Albanian rulers try to assert control over a slice of the north mainly populated by ethnic Serbs....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovo_tensions_thaci/24327745.html

Serbia's Tadic Warns Over Kosovo Border Plan

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Last updated (GMT/UTC): 13.09.2011 19:38

Serbian President Boris Tadic has warned that any attempts by Kosovo to deploy police and customs officials at border outposts in its Serb-populated north could reignite tensions that led to violence and the death of a police officer in July....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia_tadic_warns_over_kosovo_border_plan/24327482.html

UN Court Jails Former Yugoslav Army Chief Perisic For 27 Years -video-

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September 06, 2011

WATCH: Archival footage shows Momcilo Perisic with Bosnian Serb wartime commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested in May. Bakone Moloto, the presiding judge, reads out the sentence in court.

The UN war crimes tribunal has found the former chief of the Yugoslav army, Momcilo Perisic, guilty of murder, persecution, and attacks on civilians in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia during the Balkans wars of the 1990s, and sentenced him to 27 years in prison....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/un_court_jails_former_yugoslav_army_chief/24319447.html

Serbia To Deepen Ties With Non-Aligned Movement

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September 05, 2011

President Boris Tadic said Serbia intends to boost political and economic ties with member states of the Non-Aligned Movement, whose 50th anniversary was marked on September 5....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia_to_deepen_ties_with_non_aligned_movement/24318967.html