Bekim Bislimi is a correspondent with RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Xhafer Deva's role in a Nazi-backed government prompted UN and EU officials to retreat from a Kosovar heritage project to restore his former home in one of the Balkans' most bitterly divided cities.
Dragica Gasic said her dream had come true after Kosovar authorities allowed her to return to her apartment in a western city whose mostly Muslim residents suffered hugely during ethnic fighting in the late 1990s. The elation didn't last long.
As obstacles pile up in Kosovo for snap elections in less than three weeks, Kosovars abroad are miffed at the election commission's decision to exclude them from voting if they miss a phone call.
Kosovo tries to get to the bottom of a "clandestine" COVID-19 vaccination campaign in its mostly ethnic Serbian regions -- seemingly launched by Belgrade -- that it says threatens national security.
Two of Belgrade's most powerful ministers have poured gasoline on smoldering ethnic tensions by repeatedly hurling epithets at ethnic Albanians and disrespecting war victims.
Pending legislation seeking to bring Kosovo's “noise pollution” standards in line with EU norms has come under criticism from Kosovo’s Muslim community, which fears it would inhibit traditional calls to prayers.
In May, the International Olympic Committee rejected Kosovo's bid to send a team to the London 2012 Summer Games. That decision has left the country's young Olympic hopefuls bitter and disappointed -- but looking ahead with determination to 2016.
Voters in Kosovo are at the polls for the first elections since the region declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. The municipal elections are seen as a critical opportunity to engage Kosovo's minority Serbs in the political process, despite objections from Belgrade.
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