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Kosovo Removes Billboard In Volatile North With 'Honorary Citizens' Vucic, Djokovic, Putin

Kosovar authorities remove a billboard featuring pictures of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others, in Zvecan, north Kosovo, on January 25.
Kosovar authorities remove a billboard featuring pictures of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others, in Zvecan, north Kosovo, on January 25.

A billboard with the pictures of "honorary citizens" including Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, tennis player Novak Djokovic, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others, has been taken down in the Serb-majority Kosovo town of Zvecan. Kosovar Internal Affairs Minister Dzeljalj Sveclja and the local self-government minister, Eljbert Krasnici, oversaw the removal, saying there is no place in Kosovo for figures who represent "dictatorship and aggression." Zvecan is near where an attack on Kosovo police occurred in September that left four dead -- a local police sergeant and three of the attackers. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Balkan Service, click here.

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