The new initiative for settling the Serbia-Kosovo conflict has stirred up international controversies. The feared scenario is that changing the two countries’ borders might re-open local frozen conflicts but also set a precedent for territories abroad, like Crimea. Srđan Majstorovi...
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There are constant tensions between Kosovo’s government and ethnic Serb residents who live mostly in the north of Kosovo and who keep close ties to Belgrade. Mitrovica, the main city in the north, is effectively divided into an ethnic Albanian part and a Serb-held part, and the two si...
The dispute between Serbia and Kosovo dates back to 1998-99, when the former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, ordered a bloody crackdown on Kosovo Albanian separatists. More than 10,000 people died in the conflict before NATO forced Serbia to pull out of the territory. Kosovo declared inde...
"We all agree that the interest of people is not to live in middle of a permanent conflict," he said, referring to Serbian southern province of Kosovo and Metohija that unilaterally seceded in 2008. Vucic revealed that the meeting with Gabriel was about three important topics: "The first is...
Slovenia is the onlyearlybreakaway former part of Yugoslavia that never was involved in an armed conflict with Serbs, as opposed to Bosnia and Croatia, plus Kosovo. Conversely, Macedonia (FYRM) and Montenegro (Chernogoria) were split from Serbia later, in order to further weaken it. The colle...
Explain why World War One began in Europe and why it became a global conflict. Why did Britain attack the Ottoman Empire? Why did the Hungarian uprising happen? Why did the Kosovo War happen? Why did Otto Von Bismarck exclude Austria?
Conflict in Kosovo When in 1945 the six republics were created, two areas within Serbia had been accorded distinctive constitutional status—the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and the Autonomous Region of Kosovo-Metohija. (The latter also was made an autonomous province under the constitutional revis...
Ðjukanović was also critical of the Serbian policy toward Kosovo, fearing that once Milošević had settled accounts with the rebelling Kosovar Albanians, Montenegro would be forced to submit to a firmer hand from Belgrade. As the Kosovo conflict escalated, however, Ðjukanović’s ...
The data from Kosovo and Metohija have not been available in the population register since 1997. Rates were standardized by the Sagy [22] direct method, and the world population was used as the standard. The data on the population of Serbia were obtained from the 1999, 2002 and 2011 ...