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Albanian peril in Kosovo.(The Eastern European Media: A Survey of the Press in the Former Soviet Union)
Nieman Reports; 6/22/1996; Elsie, Robert; 787 words
; ... President of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, has worked miracles in channeling the extreme ... the most. The two million or so inhabitants of Kosovo have been without their own television channel for five years. A private channel in Kosovo, even if it could be financed, would not be ...
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Kosovo Forum: The Case for Re-Joining Kosovo to Albania
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 6/30/1999; Max, C; 787 words
; KOSOVO FORUM: The Case for Re-Joining Kosovo to Albania The Albanians, known to both the Greeks and the Romans ... Bosnians fought on the same side as the Serbs in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, which they lost to the Turks. Subsequently, however ...
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Sympathies simmer in Kosovo: Kosovo Albanians are said to be supporting their Macedonian counterparts with money, fighters.(World)
The Christian Science Monitor; 3/26/2001; 759 words
; Kosovo Albanians have never had much love for the Macedonian ... officials seem to be losing a battle to dampen Kosovo Albanian support of the rebels. For in this southern Kosovo town of 100,000, as in others, ties to Macedonia ... Mr. Ymeri's household, the TV is tuned in to the news constantly. They ...
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Kosovo: A heartening example of Western cooperation, resolve.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/23/1998; Dickinson, Brian; 787 words
; Kosovo? Kosovo? Until recently, the name of that small, mountainous province in Yugoslavia was scarcely known beyond the Balkans. But Kosovo has suddenly exploded in notoriety as Europe's newest potential flash point ...
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Serbs form a parliament in Kosovo
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 6/29/2008; Nebi Qena Associated Press; 649 words
; MITROVICA, Kosovo -- Kosovo's hard-line Serb leaders formed their own parliament on Saturday, ignoring Kosovo's declaration of independence and defying its United Nations administrators. The action in the Serb-controlled half of the divided town ...
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Kosovo abandons men of war in first free election
The Independent - London; 11/19/2001; Marcus Tanner; 729 words
; KOSOVO ALBANIANS looked likely to choose a softly-spoken intellectual ... province's first free election. His Democratic League of Kosovo trounced hardline nationalists led by Hashim Thaci, the former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which had waged a violent guerrilla campaign ...
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Ethnic Albanians seek independent Kosovo: Say Milosevic has no right to province.(A)
The Washington Times; 8/12/1999; Sands, David R.; 784 words
; Kosovo's ethnic Albanian political leaders are demanding complete independence from Yugoslavia as ... Nations and NATO committed themselves only to promoting the highest degree of autonomy for Kosovo within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, leading Kosovo politicians want more. Ibrahim Rugova, head of the ...
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The Kosovo Police Service and CIVPOL
Law & Order; 3/1/2004; Zimmerman, John; 787 words
; Kosovo, the southernmost province of the Republic of Serbia, has ... police forces of the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) into Kosovo to eliminate the KLA, an organization he declared to be a band of terrorists. Prior to NATO's entrance into Kosovo it is estimated that there were 13,000 MUP officers ...
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Fireworks exploded. Horns were sounded. And so the nation of Kosovo was created
The Independent - London; 2/18/2008; Peter Popham; 787 words
; INDEPENDENT KOSOVO "It's the biggest day for a million years ... costume banged drums and danced and sang. Kosovo became the world's 193rd nation state ... Albanians who constitute 90 per cent of Kosovo's people, the declaration marked the end ...
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Kosovo hails independence
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/18/2008; Dan Bilefsky New York Times News Service; 787 words
; PRISTINA, Kosovo -- The province of Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday, sending tens of ... of a long and bloody struggle for national self-determination. Kosovo's bid to be recognized as Europe's newest country -- after a ...
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