Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.
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Protests in Albania have put the spotlight on the megaprojects Jared Kushner is promoting in the country, but the US president’s family has racked up investments and controversies elsewhere on the continent
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Political struggles and economic disputes are raging across the region, but compromise seems to be in short supply, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week highlights.
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An analysis of judiciary proceedings involving the media shows a record rise in attacks on journalists in Serbia and the use of frivolous lawsuits aimed at silencing independent and critical voices, a new report shows.
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A new report warns that weak oversight of lawyers, notaries, accountants and auditors helps facilitate money-laundering across the Western Balkans through real estate fraud and complex financial arrangements.
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Police suspect two recent murders in Barcelona are tied to Balkan crime groups. The shootings highlight the global repercussions of decade-long rivalries involving Serbian and Montenegrin drug clans.
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The Court of Appeals in Belgrade confirmed the verdict clearing Milenko Zivanovic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army's Drina Corps, of war crimes against civilians in 1992 and 1995 in the Srebrenica area.
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Kosovo Albanian Hysri Selimi, a former Islamic State member, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by the Pristina Basic Court for spying for Serbian intelligence.
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Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.
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Those who have waited more than a quarter of a century to find loved ones still missing from the war in Kosovo take little hope from a new joint commission between Serbia and its former southern province.
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North Korean hackers are stealing identities to land freelance work with Western companies, and some of the victims are in the Balkans.
This year, Serbia granted citizenship to four times as many Russians as people of all other nationalities combined, and some of them were under international sanctions, an RFE/RL analysis shows.
The global nightmare scenario: Russia emerges as the hegemonic power in Eurasia after the capitulation of Ukraine; China, transformed into its silent (and superior) partner; the US, normalizing digital referendums on guns and abortion, its population manipulated by algorithmic disinformation; and the EU reduced to a soulless, technocratic bloc. In a work of political fiction, Spain’s former…
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Our selection of Premium stories digs deep into a lively week, as Europe limps towards rebooting the enlargement system, votes in Kosovo are counted and Albanians throw off a reputation for apathy.
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Low-cost carrier Wizz Air has warned changes to an air transport regulation in Serbia may force it to quit Belgrade.
Digital Serbia's new scaling program kicks off with three startups from Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia that have already raised millions and now want to win new markets.
Despite warnings from the EU, Serbia’s government has granted citizenship to four times as many Russian nationals as to all other foreign citizens combined this year -- including individuals under international sanctions, an RFE/RL investigation has found.
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'Exodus '99', part of BIRN's Reporting House museum – and housed in a freight wagon – includes testimonies from some of the Kosovo Albanians deported in railway wagons by Serbian forces in 1999.
Hungary's energy giant MOL and the Serbian government have reached a major agreement on the future ownership and governance of Serbia’s oil industry giant NIS.
Continue reading: https://dailynewshungary.com/hungary-oil-mol-serbia-nis-ownership/
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New report concludes that young people in the Western Balkan need enhanced practical skills to detect fake news on the internet and social media, but also improvements in online platforms' standards and transparency to make false information easier to recognise.
‘Charlie Kirkovich’: Serbians Honor Assassinated Conservative Leader with Belgrade Street Art Murals
BELGRADE, Serbia — Charlie Kirk, the assassinated Turning Point USA founder, has fans here in Serbia.
The post ‘Charlie Kirkovich’: Serbians Honor Assassinated Conservative Leader with Belgrade Street Art Murals appeared first on Breitbart.
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Arrest of several members of elite Belgrade police unit suspected of trying to cover up restaurant shooting last year adds to woes of Serbian capital's police force – whose chief was arrested in May.
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Prosecution has dropped claim that former Belgrade police chief Veselin Milic aided a murderer after a killing – but not the allegation that he failed to report the crime, despite being told it had occurred.
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A new Franco-German proposal is heralding a possible new approach to the European bloc’s enlargement process – and leaving the door open for Kosovo. But it was Serbia’s president who grabbed the headlines at the latest EU-Balkans summit.
In this week's briefing, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak is drilling down on two issues: a damning rule-of-law assessment for Serbia and the latest Franco-German EU enlargement proposal.
Nemanja Stavorić, Serbia's Minister of European Integration, laid out how Western governments are falling into the trap of being labeled "illiberal democracies" for carrying out the "genuine will of the people" versus going woke and perpetuating "undemocratic liberalism" in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Saturday.
The post Exclusive — Serbian Minister Nemanja Stavorić: Trump’s…
More than a million people traveled to the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade, Serbia, over the past several weeks to witness a holy relic of the Virgin Mary, a piece of a belt she wore when pregnant with Jesus Christ.
The post More Than a Million People Visit Serbian Church to Witness Holy Relic of Virgin Mary appeared first on Breitbart.
The negotiations slowed down after Péter Magyar defeated Viktor Orbán on the general elections.
#serbia #mol #nis #unitedstates
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Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.
A young harpist of Hungarian origin has won one of the top prizes at a prestigious international classical music competition in Vienna!
Continue reading: https://dailynewshungary.com/young-hungarian-serbian-harpist-prize/
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