Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo. Photo: BIRN

Kosovo Arrests Serb Ex-Police Unit Commander on War Crime Charges

A former commander of a local Serbian police unit in Zvecan was arrested as a suspect in the wartime murders and deportations of ethnic Albanian civilians.

Kosovo PM Pranked by Russians Pretending to be Latvia’s President

Albin Kurti's office blamed Moscow for the prank call in which a member of a Russian comic duo pretending to be Latvia's President grilled him about Kosovo’s current affairs.

Illustration: Kosovo Election. Photo: BIRN/Denis Sllovinja

Delay in Certifying Election Results Puts Kosovo Coalition Talks on Hold

A month after elections in Kosovo took place, Prime Minister Albin Kurti says he cannot even start talks with potential coalition partners until the result of the February 9 vote is formally certified.

Kosovo's Prime minister Albin Kurti. Photo: Urim Krasniqi/Prishtina Insight.

PM Kurti Refuses to Testify Over Alleged Misuse of Kosovo’s Reserves

Kosovo's prime minister again ignores summons to testify in a probe about the alleged about misuse of state reserves, accusing the prosecutors of abusing their freedom in order to 'fight the government and not crime'.

Former U.S. Presidential Advisor on Kosovo-Serbia, Richard Grenell, visits Kosovo in September 2020. Photo: EPA / Valdrin Xhemaj.

Trump Envoy Slams ‘Wrongful Imprisonment’ of Kosovo’s ‘Founding Father’ Thaci

US envoy Richard Grenell denounced the imprisonment and Hague trial of Hashim Thaci for war crimes and blamed Europeans and Kosovo's own institutions for "failing to bring this injustice to an end".