Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right

I always wanted to use that title.  Anyway, a review of the Kosovo metal band, Troja’s latest song Amaneti i “Clown”-it According to the reviewer: The song kicks off with a very short smooth sentence in a fairytale style, declaring that “a few years have passed”. But it immediately adopts a harsher tone, as the [...]

Kosovo: One Year Later

This week saw the first year anniversary of Kosovo’s  independence, and there is no shortage of news articles, analyses and opinion pieces covering the anniversary. One issue that has often been seen from a glass half-empty, half-full perspective (depending on your point of view) is the recognition of Kosovo by the world community, in particular, [...]

Bidding Wars!

If you have somewhere between $50,000.00 and $100,000.00; you too can bid to own the domain “kosovo.com”.  You will most likely face stiff competition from rival Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb business and government interests.

A Star is Born: Take Two

Continuing their series of excellent reports on local media coverage of Karadzic’s arrest, Balkan Insight’s Nidzara Ahmetasevic focuses on the Bosnian media. Like the media in Croatia and Serbia, sensationaistic and often unsubstantiated reports dominated in those early days, when there was a lot of contradictory information out there. According to Ahmetasevic, the “peak” of [...]

A Star is Born

Since his arrest, the crimes that Radovan Karadzic stands accused of before an international tribunal has taken a back seat to the sensationalistic saga of Dr. Dragan Dabic, and Karadzic’s new life as a grape-fanta drinking-”miracle healer”- cum Hague prisoner. Two articles, one focusing on the press in Croatia and the other in Serbia; focus a [...]