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Kyiv described Moscow’s foundational claim. Belgrade runs the same one toward Pristina. Albatros Rexhaj At the Four Freedoms Awards ceremony, Volodymyr Zelensky described what he called the core of Russia’s war against Ukraine. “At the core of Russia’s war against Ukraine is a false claim, that Ukraine does not exist, that it is allegedly …
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The convergence of historical revisionism, Serbian–Israeli arms ties, and diplomatic positioning is testing the credibility of genocide recognition in international politics. Ngadhnjim Brovina (Prishtina) The publication this week of Milorad Dodik’s meditation on Jasenovac, in which the former president of Republika Srpska and current secessionist impresario invoked the “Auschwitz of the Balkans” and placed …
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Twenty-five years after systematic sexual violence during the Kosovo war, the absence of justice reflects a sustained political arrangement, not a failure of evidence. Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) When Kosovo’s Acting President Albulena Haxhiu announced twelve new indictments for wartime sexual violence at the Heroines memorial in Pristina, she was describing real institutional progress. Kosovo’s …
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The Iran war has torn away the last polite fiction sustaining NATO. For Albania and Kosovo, two states whose entire post-war trajectories were built on the assumption of Western permanence, the consequences are not abstract. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) There is a sentence that does not appear in any official communiqué but that …
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by Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) On May 19, 2021, the United States designated Sali Berisha persona non grata under Section 7031(c) of the State Department appropriations act. The charge: significant corruption, misappropriation of public funds, interference with public processes, a sustained pattern of self-protection at the expense of accountability. His wife, his son, and …
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A Serbian state-backed film turns contested allegations into lived experience — a case study in how memory competition is reshaping policymakers’ understanding of Kosovo’s past. By Albatros Rexhaj (Tirana) Serbia did not just premiere a film on March 17. It staged a message. Arno Gujon promoted it personally. Ana Brnabić attended. A companion exhibition …
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Albania and Kosovo were among six NATO members to publicly back the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. In Washington, that kind of signaling costs less than they think — and in Brussels, it costs more. By Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) Small states have a well-practiced move in moments of crisis: declare loyalty early, loudly, and …
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Europe’s energy supply is being held hostage. Its governments are checking the alliance rulebook. by Klea Ukaj (Michigan, USA) There is something almost admirable in the architecture of Europe’s response to Donald Trump’s demand for naval support in the Strait of Hormuz. Not admirable in any moral sense — but structurally admirable, the way …
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In the Balkans, a declared war is not needed to shift the balance: a new network of military cooperation, a few strategic signals, and a region that has never truly filed away its past are enough. Between Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and Croatia, the issue is not only what is happening today, but what it could …
