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Albania Prime Minister Claims Election Victory

Albanian PM Sali Berisha

02 July 2009 Albania’s Democratic Party claimed victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections with 99 per cent of the ballots counted.
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Croatian PM Criticised for Jumping Ship

Ivo Sanader

02 July 2009

The abrupt resignation of Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, continued to draw praise but also much condemnation, both from Croatia and abroad.

Analysis: Sanader's Sudden Exit Shocks Croatia
Ivo Sanader Profile: A 'Promising Lad' Who Came Unstuck
Comment: Sanader's Legacy Is a Bankrupt State

Balkans On Alert Over Swine Flu Outbreak

A statue of a girl in Macedonian capital stands prepared against the airborne influenza

01 July 2009 After fresh cases of the pandemic disease are confirmed in Bosnia and Serbia, concerns grow of a possible regional outbreak.
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Report: Pressure on Balkan Media Persists

Brussels Urges Macedonia to Replace Bocevski

Brussels Closely Watching Albania Poll

Karadzic: Letter to Milosevic

New Book Claims Milos Obilic was Albanian

Universiade Gets Underway in Belgrade

Pristina Donates Prime Site to US For Embassy

Freedom House Criticises Albania’s Democracy

Damir Ivankovic Sentenced to 14 Years

Kosovo, Italy to Cooperate On Organised Crime

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In Depth

Loss of Srebrenica Victims’ Possessions Shocks Families

By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Srebrenica

14 May 2009 Relatives of those massacred in 1995 are dismayed by reports that their loved ones’ exhumed possessions may since have been destroyed without their permission.
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INVESTIGATION

KLA Ran Torture Camps in Albania

By Altin Raxhimi, Michael Montgomery and Vladimir Karaj

The building that served as a KLA prison at the factory compound in Kukes

09 April 2009 The Kosovo Liberation Army maintained a network of prisons in their bases in Albania and Kosovo during and after the conflict of 1999, eyewitnesses allege. Only now are the details of what occurred there emerging.
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Comment

Sanader’s Legacy is a Bankrupt State

By Boris Dezulovic

Ivo Sanader

02 July 2009

None of the achievements to which Sanader lays claim in his six-year mandate was truly his own work, while on the domestic front he leaves an economy in tatters.

Kosovo Daily Fined for Breaching Press Code

24 June 2009 Kosovo’s press council has voted to fine newspaper Infopress 1,000 euro following a series of hostile articles against BIRN Kosovo.

Kosovo: Journalist Under Fire

04 June 2009
Kosovar journalist Jeta Xharra is a spy for Belgrade, if one is to believe a campaign waged by pro-government press over the past week targeting the “Life in Kosovo” program, which she hosts on public television and which dares to address controversial and even taboo topics.

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Training is BIRN’s core activity, aimed to strengthen professional capacities of journalists and media outlets across the region.

BIRN training activities are designed to build journalists professional skill to produce relevant reporting that has an impact on societies, opinion-shapers and decision-makers in the Balkans.

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