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Remembering Srebrenica 30 Years On

Geoff Ryan — 2025-07-16T13:46:00Z

11 July marked the 30th anniversary of the genocide in July 1995 of over 8,000 largely Bosniak men and male children by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladic. They were buried in mass graves. Many thousand more fled into the forest and embarked on a harrowing journey lasting up to 7 days before reaching the eastern Bosnia village of Nezuk. What led up to the massacre and how it has been treated compared to two other wars: Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's genocide against the Palestinians..

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo

Kosovo: a historic turning point

Catherine Samary — 2021-04-22T09:15:46Z

“From now on, VV will have to apply the main thrusts of its electoral campaign against corruption and for social rights while the pandemic has killed nearly 1,800 people, worsening the economic, social and health crises in one of the poorest countries on the European continent.”

- IV555 - April 2021 / Kosovo

In Kosovo, unprecedented victory of Vetëvendosje

Catherine Samary — 2021-02-28T22:07:37Z

In a crucial event in the political history of post-war Kosova, Movement for Self-Determination (Vetëvendosje - LVV) won the elections by a massive landslide

- IV553 - February 2021 / Kosovo, Balkans

Spring of the great loneliness

Fitim Salihu — 2016-05-22T11:03:02Z

What was predicted to be “The Kosovar Spring” in fact turned out to be opposition's “Spring of the great loneliness”, if we can raise an analogy with one of the masterpieces of the Albanian novelist, Ismail Kadare, The Winter of the Great Loneliness in which he describes Albania's break with the Soviet Union in 1961 and the solitude of the country, which had just turned its back on the Warsaw Pact.

- IV496 - May 2016 / Kosovo

“Rise Above!”: Students of Kosovo fearless in defence of higher education reforms

Eurisa Rukovci — 2015-10-30T07:18:48Z

For a couple of weeks now hundreds of citizens of Kosovo- have been rallying in support of greater autonomy for the University of Pristina. Gathered under the slogan â€˜For University' they joined in support of the Rector's proposed reforms for improving the quality of higher education. Yesterday's dismissal of the Rector by the Governing Council of the University, sparked outrage amongst his supporters from “For University”, who called for a protest scheduled to start at 11:00, on 22nd of October outside the Ministry of Education in Pristina.

- IV489 - October 2015 / Youth and student movements, Kosovo