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  • Soldier of Macedon
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 13669


    Gun-toting Serb politician shouts "This is Kosovo"

    5 June 17

    A prosecutor in Kosovo has decided to set Aleksandar Jablanovic free after his arrest on Sunday for using a firearm to make threats. Namely, Jablanovic pulled a gun at a group of Serb (Srpska) List activists in the northern town of Leposavic, who were out putting up campaign posters ahead of the early parliamentary elections in Kosovo. Kosovo police chief in northern Kosovo Zeljko Bajic told Serbia's state broadcaster RTS late on Sunday that Jablanovic was arrested at around 20:15 hours CET that evening, and that the police found the pistol he used to threaten the activists. Jablanovic was then questioned at the police station in Leposavic. The Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo condemned the incident in the strongest terms, describing it as "thuggish." The Office appealed on all citizens of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija not to fall for provocations staged by politicians who are "Pristina's candidates," who wish to cause "confusion among the Serb people in our southern province." The Office also said that Jablanovic was "clearly aware that his political flirting with Albanian parties will be punished by the voters in the elections, and now that he has nothing to lose, he is trying to delegitimize the electoral process." Serb List President Slavko Simic said last night that Jablanovic - who was in the past a member of the Kosovo government, and is now the leader of the Party of Kosovo Serbs - got arrested after he used a cocked gun to threaten the List's activists. "Jablanovic pointed his gun at one of our activists and started shouting, 'This is Kosovo, this is not Serbia, remove the posters if you don't want me to kill you'," Simic told Tanjug. A police patrol then came along and tried to arrest Jablanovic, but he started running; however, the police caught up with him and arrested him.
    Interesting. A Serb taking a leaf out of the book of Kosovo Albanian politicians and behaving in a similar manner. The emergence of Serbian Albanophiles?
    In the name of the blood and the sun, the dagger and the gun, Christ protect this soldier, a lion and a Macedonian.

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    • Phoenix
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2008
      • 4671

      Originally posted by Soldier of Macedon View Post
      ...Interesting. A Serb taking a leaf out of the book of Kosovo Albanian politicians and behaving in a similar manner. The emergence of Serbian Albanophiles?
      ...I don't know what you call it, is it a sad reflection of somebody being moulded by a severely flawed and dysfunctional system, is it, as Theresa May recently said, another example of - "terrorism breeding terrorism"...or is it simply the corrupt underbelly of the Balkan politics of self-interest, where public office is merely the means by which one furthers personal ambition, over and above that of his constituents, or the core values of the nation...typical Balkan backwardness.

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      • Risto the Great
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2008
        • 15658

        I can't see how that kind of mentality is any different to the FYROMIAN movement of the last 20 years.

        Originally posted by Phoenix View Post
        ...I don't know what you call it, is it a sad reflection of somebody being moulded by a severely flawed and dysfunctional system, is it, as Theresa May recently said, another example of - "terrorism breeding terrorism"...or is it simply the corrupt underbelly of the Balkan politics of self-interest, where public office is merely the means by which one furthers personal ambition, over and above that of his constituents, or the core values of the nation...typical Balkan backwardness.
        Risto the Great
        MACEDONIA:ANHEDONIA
        "Holding my breath for the revolution."

        Hey, I wrote a bestseller. Check it out: www.ren-shen.com

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        • Phoenix
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2008
          • 4671

          Originally posted by Risto the Great View Post
          I can't see how that kind of mentality is any different to the FYROMIAN movement of the last 20 years.
          No difference at all.

          Every aspect of our many current predicaments has it's root in some form of personal interest, from an elected officials willingness to sell-out at any price or cost to the people and the nation...

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          • vicsinad
            Senior Member
            • May 2011
            • 2337

            Good riddance...but maybe they will build a statue of him. Centar Skopje, perhaps?



            Notorious Albanian terrorist who fought with ISIS is dead

            PRISTINA, June 8 — A self-proclaimed commander of Albanians fighting with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, notorious at home in Kosovo for a video showing him beheading a man, has been killed, police and his family said on Thursday.

            Lavdrim Muhaxheri gained notoriety in his native Albania after he was seen beheading a hostage.Reuters

            Lavdrim Muhaxheri died in the Middle East, but it was not clear in which country or when, they told Reuters.

            A video posted on the internet in 2014 showed Muhaxheri beheading a young man in Iraq accused by IS of spying for the Iraqi government.

            Another video showed him killing another person with a rocket-propelled grenade.

            A police official, who declined to be named, told Reuters that he had been killed, but gave no other details.

            Confirming his death, an uncle of Muhaxheri asked a Reuters reporter: “Is everyone happy now?”

            Around 300 Kosovars have gone to fight with the Islamic State and more than 50 have been killed, Kosovo officials say. About 120 more are estimated to have left from Albania itself and about 100 from Macedonia’s Albanian minority.

            Kosovo has not seen any militant attacks on its home turf, but at least 200 people have been detained or investigated for alleged Islamic State-related offenses.

            Most of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority are nominally Muslim but overwhelmingly secular. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 with the backing of the West.

            In 2015, it adopted a law introducing jail sentences of up to 15 years for anyone found guilty of fighting in wars abroad.
            PRISTINA, June 8 — A self-proclaimed commander of Albanians fighting with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, notorious at home in Kosovo for a video showing him beheading a man, has been killed, …

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            • Phoenix
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2008
              • 4671

              Originally posted by vicsinad View Post
              Good riddance...but maybe they will build a statue of him. Centar Skopje, perhaps?
              Most western governments are increasingly fearful of their citizens who are currently serving in the ranks of IS returning back to the west, so much so that it has lead to a total rethink about the strategy in combating IS in Syria and Iraq.
              The new plan (apparently) is to totally annihilate IS combatants ensuring as few of them as possible return alive to the west with their newly honed 'skills' and psychopathy...

              Would love to hear from 'Albo' if they're writing poems and patriotic songs about this bloke...

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              • Skolovranec
                Junior Member
                • Mar 2017
                • 52

                Originally posted by Phoenix View Post
                Most western governments are increasingly fearful of their citizens who are currently serving in the ranks of IS returning back to the west, so much so that it has lead to a total rethink about the strategy in combating IS in Syria and Iraq.
                The new plan (apparently) is to totally annihilate IS combatants ensuring as few of them as possible return alive to the west with their newly honed 'skills' and psychopathy...

                Would love to hear from 'Albo' if they're writing poems and patriotic songs about this bloke...
                Or, rather than going multi-culti, switch to multi-ethni. Multi-ethnic societies are a lot more stable than multi-cultural, since cultures sometimes don't tolerate other cultures. USA started having problems when it went from multi-ethnic (Americans, Native Indians, Africans, Asians, Latinos, Arabs) to multi-cultural (they allowed Asians to pursue their own culture rather than that of America, same with Arabs and Africans, you now have black supremacists using african language, cultural practices, and even neoafrican religion, with a growing passionate hatred for the west in general). It was fine as long as all the diverse crowds lived under one banner - the american flag and what it stood for. Different people - one nation.

                And there's a similar problem here too. Which is why Macedonia is in the state that it is. We have allowed cultural grooming and nationalistic superiority to such an extent that the country is facing a possible secessionist conflict in near future if things don't get toned down.
                Anti-EU Pro-Guns National-Libertarian Trekkie Minarchist
                Anti-NATO Pro-United MK Agnostic Secularist Magick Occultist
                Anti-UN Pro-Military Meritocratic Integrationist Altruistic Socio-Darwinist
                Anti-Globalist Pro-Choice Intellectual Pirate Spiritual Vagabond

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                • Tomche Makedonche
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2011
                  • 1123

                  UNDP analysis blames rise in extremism in Kosovo over last two decades on factors including corruption, unemployment, Kosovo's isolation - and the activity of Middle Eastern-based humanitarian organisations.


                  Religious Extremism Has Grown in Kosovo, UN Study

                  UNDP analysis blames rise in extremism in Kosovo over last two decades on factors including corruption, unemployment, Kosovo's isolation - and the activity of Middle Eastern-based humanitarian organisations

                  The United Nations Development Program, UNDP, on Wednesday published analysis on prevention of violent extremism in Kosovo, reporting an increase in the influence of extremist groups during the last two decades in Kosovo.

                  The report says the main "push" factors include disappointment with current systems, corruption, unemployment, poverty and other socio-economic factors, a weak educational system, an identity crisis, religious indoctrination, stigmatisation - and a general sense of isolation from the world.

                  Female-specific factors include the obligation of married women to join their husbands and indoctrination through informal or religious teachings on the internet and by radicalised relatives.

                  The main "pull" factors identified by the focus groups are personal convictions and philosophical commitment, the expectation of material and spiritual rewards, and the influence of some Middle Eastern-educated imams and Middle Eastern humanitarian organisations active in Kosovo after the 1999 conflict.

                  According to the analysis, the threat of terrorist attacks in Kosovo remains permanent, unpredictable and long term, and should not be judged only by the number of people joining terrorist organisation such as ISIS.

                  The study suggests that cooperation between police and imams is necessary, while more importance should be given to rehabilitation programs and solutions sought by engagement at local levels.

                  Education and cooperation between institutions and communities at all levels is the key for sustaining long-term approaches to preventing violent extremism.

                  The key actors that must engage in preventing violent extremism, according to the findings, are municipalities, civil society and religious communities.

                  This analysis is complemented by the findings from three focus groups organized in January 2017, in Prishtinë/Pristina, Gjilan/Gnjilane and Hani i Elezit/Elez Han.

                  This study analysed the perceptions of Kosovo citizens about violent extremism and the resilience of society vis-ŕ-vis internal and external pressures conducive to the penetration of extremist religious ideologies and the ways in which institutions can increase their resilience.

                  Around 100 people have been arrested in Kosovo since September 2014 on charges of active membership of, or affiliation to, Islamist groups including ISIS and Al-Nusra.

                  More than 50 are on trial. The authorities estimate that about 300 Kosovo Albanians have joined ISIS and Al Nusra in total.

                  As BIRN previously reported, the EU's annual Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, released June 15, says terrorists are still joining the conflict in Syria from the Balkans, which remains a route to and from the conflict zones in the Middle East.

                  "Bosnia and Herzegovina, the so-called Sandzak region [between Serbia and Montenegro], Albanian-speaking territories in Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania until recently were considered the main hotspots for radicalisation, recruitment, and facilitation activities of FTFs destined for Syria,” the report added
                  “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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                  • Tomche Makedonche
                    Senior Member
                    • Oct 2011
                    • 1123

                    The retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic near the Kosovo capital began at Pristina Basic Court.


                    Kosovo Organ-Trafficking Retrial Opens in Pristina

                    The retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic near the Kosovo capital began at Pristina Basic Court

                    The retrial of Medicus clinic owner Lutfi Dervishi, his son Arban Dervishi and head anesthetist Sokol Hajdini, all accused of involvement in organised crime in connection with people-trafficking, started at Pristina Basic Court on Thursday after a Supreme Court ruling overturned the original verdict.

                    But Arban Dervishi, who was the manager of the Medicus clinic and is currently on the run, did not appear in court.

                    "I have neither been contacted by him, nor did I make any minimal effort to contact him…I do not know where he is," said his lawyer Petrit Dushi.

                    However, the lawyer said that Arban Dervishi’s family had told him that he would appear in court on one condition.

                    “Arban Dervishi will only come back if the court decides not to imprison him, but put him under house arrest,” Dushi said.

                    The court refused the request and decided to separate Arban Dervishi’s case from the others.

                    Therefore the case will continue with just his father Lutfi Dervishi and Sokol Hajdini in the dock.

                    “It is important that no indicted individuals can negotiate with the court about such requests,” said presiding judge Francesca Fischer.

                    The appeals court upheld their original convictions in March 2016, jailing Lutfi Dervishi and his son for eight years and Hajdini for five.

                    The ruling said found that “multiple illegal kidney transplants” took place at the clinic in 2008.

                    Poor people from Turkey, Russia, Moldova and Kazakhstan were allegedly brought to the clinic after being assured that they would receive up to 15,000 euro for their kidneys.

                    The EULEX prosecutor in the case said then that transplant recipients, mainly Israelis, paid more than 70,000 euro for the kidneys.

                    But after the appeals court ruling, Kosovo’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial on the basis of procedural irregularities.

                    Police initially raided the Medicus clinic in 2008 after a Turkish man whose kidney had been removed was found seriously ill at Pristina airport.

                    Investigators closed down the clinic in 2008, and it has since been sold
                    “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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                    • Albo
                      Member
                      • May 2014
                      • 304

                      Politics of prayer in Kosovo

                      Pristina’s newest cathedral is not just a religious monument; it’s a political symbol.

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                      • Albo
                        Member
                        • May 2014
                        • 304

                        Kosovo says will sign common energy market agreement with Albania

                        Kosovo's Minister for Economic Development Valdrin Lluka and Ambassador of Albania in Pristina, Qemal Minxhozi

                        PRISTINA (Kosovo), November 1 (SeeNews) - Albania and Kosovo plan to finalize later this month an agreement to establish a common energy market, the Kosovo ministry of economic development has said.*

                        The agreement will be signed during a meeting of the governments of Albania and Kosovo, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

                        The meeting is scheduled to be held on November 27 in the southeastern Albanian city of Korca, as Albanian prime minister Edi Rama announced in September after a meeting with Kosovo foreign minister Behgjet Pacolli.

                        The governments of Albania and Kosovo see the expected agreement as a very important step towards increasing energy transmission between the two countries. They also expect the common energy market to improve power supply to consumers in Albania and Kosovo and add value to the energy infrastructure in the region of Southeast Europe.

                        The work on the implementation of the joint initiative was launched in March 2014. The first step toward establishing a common market was finalized in June 2016 with the inauguration of 400 kV interconnection line worth 75.5 million euro ($87.9 million) between Albania and Kosovo financed by the German government through the KfW development bank, the Albanian government has said.

                        - See more at: https://seenews.com/news/kosovo-says....li2ia6uV.dpuf

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                        • mklion
                          Member
                          • Jun 2014
                          • 100

                          Well when a country rises from MUT the only way to go is up

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                          • mklion
                            Member
                            • Jun 2014
                            • 100

                            Lets not spread fake news. Kosovo is a failed state and will eventually collapse



                            Kosovo's decision to declare independence was a bad idea. The U.S. decision to recognize it was worse.


                            Kosovo has lost an estimated 50,000 people in the past two months - most of them on buses bound eventually for Germany. What is going on in this tiny corner of the Balkans?

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                            • Albo
                              Member
                              • May 2014
                              • 304

                              Who said it was a Booming state??
                              The problems that are faced in Kosovo are common in most Balkan counties.. The fact that the international status of Kosovo has been in limbo since the end of ther war hasn't really helped its progress.. but considering were kosovo was in 1998 and where it is today in terms of infrastructure projects and institutuon building is simply incomparable...

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                              • Albo
                                Member
                                • May 2014
                                • 304

                                Doing Business 2018: Kosovo Among Top Ten Reformers in the World

                                The FINANCIAL -- Kosovo is among the top 10 economies worldwide with the most notable improvement in doing business reforms,

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