RFE/RL BALKAN REPORT
31.10.2013
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the countries of the western Balkans.For more stories on the Balkans, please visit and bookmark our Balkans page . |
 Kosovo's 'Strong Party' Attracts Cynical Votes By Mocking Everything When voters in the Kosovo capital Pristina go to the polls on November 3, they'll have the chance to cast their ballots for a political newcomer that is turning the entire election into a grandiose -- and hysterical -- exercise in political theater. More  Deported Roma Girl Mulls France Return Leonarda Dibrani, the 15-year-old Roma girl whose deportation from France to Kosovo caused an outcry, says she may accept a French offer to return to France. More  Protesters And Police Scuffle Over Journalist's Imprisonment Hundreds of demonstrators protesting the imprisonment of investigative journalist Tomislav Kezarovski scuffled with police in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, on October 23. More Macedonian Journalist Imprisoned For Revealing Witness Identity An investigative journalist in Macedonia has been imprisoned for revealing the identity of a witness in a murder case in a sentencing that has raised questions of press freedom in the country. More Jovanka Broz, who spent three decades as Yugoslavia's first lady but was left stateless and forgotten as the socialist federation built by her husband Josip Broz Tito dissolved in war, died on Sunday (October 20) in a Belgrade hospital. She was 88 and had lived largely in isolation since the 1980 death of long-time Yugoslav leader Tito, squirreled away in a crumbling state-owned villa in the Serbian capital without a passport or ID. More The Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, saw its first-ever gay pride parade. More  Bosnia Baby's Death Blamed On Red Tape Protesters in Sarajevo have covered a mock tomb in front of the parliament building with a black blanket to commemorate the death of a baby girl that they blame on red tape. More Thousands of French students have blockaded entrances to their schools and marched through Paris and other cities to protest the expulsions of two illegal immigrant students, one from Kosovo and another from Armenia. More |
