Serbia Archives - Page 7 of 9

27Jun

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Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia

Appeal: Dutch Govt Partially Liable for 300 Srebrenica Deaths

NOVANEWS Bosnian Muslim woman prays near a grave before mass funeral in Memorial Center in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina July 11, 2016. | Photo: Reuters The men were among around 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the massacre, ruled a genocide by the international courts. On Tuesday a Dutch appeals court ruled that the government was partially liable for the 1995 deaths of 300 Muslim men murdered by Bosnian Serb forces. RELATED: Black People Are a 'Genocide Project' in Brazil Says Researcher The ruling somewhat upholds the 2014 civil court decision that found the state fully liable for the deaths of the men in the Srebrenica massacre. The Hague Appeals Court's presiding judge, Gepke Dulek, explained that Dutch soldiers becam...

19May

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Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia

Is Crisis in Macedonia Coming to an End?

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini At long last there are some good news coming from the Western Balkans, shaken in recent months by a constant rise in tensions, renewed sabre rattling, readiness for new interethnic conflicts and, of course, with Russia's helpful role. Macedonian President Georgi Ivanov has finally handed opposition leader Zoran Zaev a mandate to form a government five months after the snap parliamentary elections in the country. Five months, marked by a violation of the Macedonian Constitution, a bloody attack on the parliament of the former Yugoslav Republic, a fuelling of interethnic hatred, and a vague attempt to renew EU presence in the country and the region in general. Under pressure by the international community and Macedonian society, the president handed over the mandat...

9May

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Serbia

Enver Hoxhaj: Dialogue with Belgrade Is Useless if it Does Not Lead to Mutual Recognition

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini A Putin or Erdoğan Scenario for Serbia After the Elections? EU Is Trying To Restart the European Integration of the Western Balkans There Is a Serious Crisis of Democracy in the Western Balkans Region The Balkans are in a limbo, Serbia is an extension of Russia, Kosovo has the most stable political landscape, the dialogue with Belgrade must move towards mutual recognition, the crisis in Macedonia is an internal problem. These are in brief the positions of Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj on the key developments in the Balkans, which he presented during a hearing in the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Wednesday (May 3rd). There he was welcomed among friends, in the words of committee Chairman David McAllister (EPP, Germany). During the ...

25Apr

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Croatia, Serbia

Kosovo Serbs ‘Terrified’ by Proposed Creation of “Greater Albania”

NOVANEWS By Sputnik Fresh calls for a Greater Albania, incorporating the southern Serbian province of Kosovo, have led to an angry backlash from politicians in Belgrade. Sputnik Radio’s Mark Hirst talked to Marko Djuric, Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija. Such a move by Albania, if acted upon, could plunge the entire region back into a bloody and costly war on a scale not seen since the 1990s. Marko Djuric said that Serbia will not allow the creation of a Greater Albania in its southern province and that it is not alone in opposing the idea, which stems from the times of Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. When asked whether this inflammatory statement by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was a tactical move, rather than a serious claim, Djuric said that i...

14Apr

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North Korea, Serbia

Congratulations to President-Elect of Serbia

NOVANEWS (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Wednesday sent a congratulatory message to Aleksandar Vucic on his election as president of Serbia. Kim in the message wished the president success in his work for the country's prosperity, expressing the belief that the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would grow stronger in conformity with the interests of the two peoples.

12Apr

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Serbia

Trump’s Welcome to Criminal NATO Can’t Erase Montenegro’s Memory of Bombings

NOVANEWS © AP Photo/ Risto Bozovic NATO membership is opposed by the majority of Montenegrins, who were disappointed by Donald Trump's U-turn on support for the military alliance, editor-in-chief of the IN4C information portal Gojko Raicevic told Radio Sputnik. NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia is still fresh in the memory of Montenegrins, who remain implacably opposed to membership in the alliance, editor-in-chief of the IN4C information portal Gojko Raicevic told Radio Sputnik. "The Montenegrin government wants to join NATO, the people of Montenegro aren't keen whatsoever to be a part of that criminal organization. This has been proven for years and years by protests and demonstrations, you name it," Raicevic said. Montenegrins have "very fresh memories of NATO bombing our c...

6Apr

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Serbia

A Putin or Erdoğan Scenario for Serbia After the Elections?

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb EU Is Trying To Restart the European Integration of the Western Balkans There Is a Serious Crisis of Democracy in the Western Balkans Region Could Russia Recognise Kosovo? The big news of the presidential elections in Serbia is that now there is opposition. After five years reign of Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), the opposition was virtually gone. It was divided into dozens of parties and movements with different ideologies - from ultra-nationalism to moderate pro-European liberalism, the former prevailing. It was not expected that the elections of April 2 will bear this result because, just as in Bulgaria, the opposition failed to unite and come up with a common candidate to end the monopoly reign of Aleksandar Vučić. There...

24Mar

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Bosnia, Croatia, Europe, Serbia

EU Is Trying To Restart the European Integration of the Western Balkans

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb There Is a Serious Crisis of Democracy in the Western Balkans Region Could Russia Recognise Kosovo? Is Serbia Preparing for Elections or a New Balance of Powers There is some good news and some bad news for the Western Balkans in the past few weeks. The good news is that the European Union has finally come to realise that there is something rotten in the Balkans and has matured to a change in the narrative. The bad news is this is too late and too little. For months the region has been shaking in instability and so far just verbal conflicts, which are raising the tension to the levels of prior to the bloody disintegration of former Yugoslavia. Macedonia is imploding into a severe political crisis, which has the potential of becoming an inter-ethnic co...

21Mar

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Serbia

Pristina Snaps Up 200 Billion Euros’ Worth of Serbian Property in Kosovo

NOVANEWS Sputnik The authorities of the self-proclaimed Kosovo republic have decided to confiscate up to 200 billion euros’ worth of real estate of the former Yugoslavia’s Serbia and Kosovo Province, adding pressure to an already strained relationship between Pristina and Belgrade. The Kosovo cadastral agency has been instructed to immediately register all real estate, amounting to more than 2 million square meters of buildings, including a ski resort and a mining complex, but also land, as the property of Kosovo. Meanwhile, according to the Serbian cadaster agency, Serbian immovable property in Kosovo amounts to 1 million square meters and Serbian-owned enterprises in the region are valued at about 200 billion euros. The region’s strategic natural resources “privatized” by the Pristin...

9Mar

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Europe, Russia, Serbia, USA

The US-NATO Plan for Macedonia: Keep Serbia Down and Russia Out

NOVANEWS By Marcus Papadopoulos RT News The role of the United States in the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is often overlooked by people who are critical of Washington’s intervention in the internal affairs of independent, sovereign countries. For it was in the former Yugoslavia that the precedent was set for future American intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo provided the launch pad for the West’s concept of humanitarian intervention, which, in reality, is a pretext for safeguarding and enhancing US global hegemony. However, intervention by Washington in the Balkans in the 1990s served a more immediate objective for the Americans. While Otto von Bismarck, the legendary first Chancellor of Germany, scoffe...