A Russian convoy carrying humanitarian supplies has finally been cleared to enter Kosovo and is preparing to set off for Mitrovica, a city with a large Serb majority in northern Kosovo. The convoy is scheduled to start moving at 6am GMT on Friday. It had earlier been reported that the convoy was being delayed at [...]
Tag: Serbia
December 16, 2011
November 17, 2011
Russia’s Province Of Kosovo?
Some Kosovar Serbs had hoped that Russian citizenship would be the best way to get Moscow involved and so prevent their enclave from being integrated under the Kosovar Albanian-led government’s control. What they got instead was an offer — from no less than Moscow’s NATO Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin — to move to Russia to help [...]
November 2, 2011
Russian Diplomat Criticized For Speech At Serbian Opposition Rally
BELGRADE — The Serbian ruling party has criticized a speech by the Russian ambassador to Belgrade at a nationalist party rally as meddling by Moscow in Serbia’s internal affairs, RFE/RL’s Balkan Service reports. Six weeks after he blasted Serb politicians and intellectuals at a Belgrade security forum for leaving it to Russia to defend Serbian [...]
October 31, 2011
Cilic on top at Saint Petersburg Open
Croatian tennis player Marin Cilic needed three sets to deal with Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia in the final match of the Saint Petersburg Open. Tipsarevic, who grabbed the Kremlin Cup in Moscow on October 24, looked quite tired playing his tenth match in just two weeks. All the Serb could achieve was a break [...]
October 18, 2011
Army of stones: Serb barricades stand firm
As the deadline for Serbs in northern Kosovo to dismantle their border barricades nears, they remain firm in their protest. The barricades are meant to stop attempts by Kosovan police, and NATO and EU forces to take over border crossings with Serbia. Stones and sand of the barricades are the only weapons the Serbs living [...]
October 18, 2011
Kosovo border dispute escalates
NATO forces have extended the deadline for Serbs in northern Kosovo to remove barricades near the Kosovar-Serbian border, delivering them an ultimatum to clear the roadblocks by early Tuesday or face forced removal. Pristina, the capital of Albanian-dominated Kosovo, wants to erect customs posts between the Serb-dominated part of the self-proclaimed republic and Serbia, tearing [...]
October 17, 2011
Russian emergencies minister heads to Balkans
Russian Emergencies Ministry Sergei Shoigu is heading to Serbia on Monday to oversee the signing of a number of deals intended to boost Russia’s humanitarian and economic cooperation with the Balkan state, the ministry spokesman said. On Monday, Shoigu and Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic will take part in the groundbreaking ceremony of the Russian-Serbian [...]
October 15, 2011
Podcast: Quick! Who’s The President of Ubeki-beki-beki-stan?
Kosovo’s President Stands Firm On Serbia (Episode 40) Playlist Download Pronunciation was on The Blender’s mind this week as U.S. presidential hopeful Herman Cain came face to face with a country whose name — Uzbekistan — he couldn’t say and whose president — Islam Karimov — he couldn’t remember. We here at The Blender know [...]
October 14, 2011
Podcast: Quick! Who’s The President of Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan?
Kosovo’s President Stands Firm On Serbia (Episode 40) Playlist Download Pronunciation was on The Blender’s mind this week as U.S. presidential hopeful Herman Cain came face to face with a country whose name — Uzbekistan — he couldn’t say and whose president — Islam Karimov — he couldn’t remember. We here at The Blender know [...]
October 13, 2011
Estonia and Ireland to vie for fulfillment of Euro 2012 dream
The Estonian national football team will challenge the Republic of Ireland in their first ever pay-off game in the European qualifiers. Estonia were second behind Italy in Group C, beating Serbia by a single point, while the Irish gave their ticket to Poland and Ukraine away to Team Russia. The draw for the final stage [...]
October 5, 2011
NATO ‘violated’ UN mandate in Kosovo clashes
NATO peacekeepers have “no right” to use force against ethnic Serbs in the north of Kosovo, Russia says. Last month, 16 ethnic Serbs and four soldiers from the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force were hurt in clashes over the Jarinje border crossing with Serbia. Serbia said NATO’s actions were “absolutely unacceptable.” The alliance insists its soldiers [...]
September 19, 2011
Kosovo Serbs battle isolation as border dispute intensifies
This week, the EU will discuss Serbian-backed proposals to break a deadlock in Northern Kosovo, where Pristina recently seized two disputed border crossings. The move has sparked outrage among local Serbs. A standoff develops on the border – Kosovo authorities backed by EU and NATO forces on one side, ethnic Serbian protestors on the other. [...]
September 15, 2011
Kirilenko & Co. unstoppable so far in Lithuania
Team Russia has taken sweet revenge against Serbia for their Eurobasket 2009 quarterfinal loss, beating the friendly Slavs 77-67 to secure a semifinal encounter against France. Dusan Ivkovic’s men started smoothly 4-0 before the Russians responded with a 12-3 rally. As it later turned out, it was the first and last time the Balkan team [...]
June 27, 2011
Ryazan
1 of 5 RYAZAN — There is a widespread belief in Ryazan that Koreans owe some of their digital excellence to a local plant called Plazma. But few would remember the South Korean firm’s name when talking about Plazma’s joint venture with the Koreans — a memory dating back to the mid-1990s. Plazma’s deputy director [...]