Kosovo Independence

False State in the middle of Serbia

Have you ever heard of one nation with two motherlands? Well, that's the case with Kosovo Albanians. Some Europeans on one French website asked - "if they don't like living in Serbia, why don't they simply leave Kosovo and go to their motherland Albania"? Well, the question is good but it's hard to find the answer. So-called Kosovars are people who live in Kosovo, and there are Serbs and Albanians, as well as some other nations. Why then Albanians have a right to have second Albanian state in Serbia, and Serbs don't have right to live in their own country?... full story


By MARKO ANDREJIĆ
from Belgrade, SERBIA

Reminder: March Pogrom 2004

Multiethnic democracy?
March 17, 2004 is remembered by pogrom of Kosovo Serbs and it's presented everywhere as an example of the worst ethnic and religious violence committed under the UN protectorate in its history - 35 Orthodox churches and monasteries are destroyed or damaged. Is this a sign of civilized society and multiethnic democracy announced by Kosovo Albanians leaders?


Sport against Politics

Good Bye, Weapon!
Instead of enjoying the beauty of sport, sport became an arena for pushing out different kinds of frustrations. When the situation comes there, even the highest professionals are worried


By MILOS JEREMIC
from Belgrade, SERBIA



Perspectives

Welcome to Kosovo, the Next Failed State?
Not until the Albanian-run Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) came on the scene in 1997 with a guerrilla campaign against Serbian troops and terrorist attacks on civilians did the Clinton administration begin to pay attention to Kosovo, inadvertently rewarding the KLA and its terrorist violence. The KLA deliberately sought to provoke Serbian reprisals, and Milosevic, with his usual obtuse brutality, readily obliged


By MARK KRAMER
(Director of Harvard University's Project on Cold War Studies and a senior fellow of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies)
Story from The Washington Post