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Another orthodox Christian Serbian party leader reported killed by in Kosovo

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Leader of the Civic Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic was assassinated on Tuesday in Kosovska Mitrovica, the Russian news agency TASS reports, citing Blic newspaper which quoted the politician’s lawyer.

“Apparently, he died on the spot. We know now that he received five gunshot wounds. He was immediately sent to hospital and doctors tried to save him, but this was to no avail,” his lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic said.

Head of hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica confirmed to Serbia’s state news agency Tanjug that the politician died of wounds. It was impossible to save him as he sustained many wounds to the upper part of his body, he added.

Kosovo’s police confirmed the assassination saying that a search for the attackers is underway.

The assassination occurred when Ivanovic was entering his party’s building.

Crowds of people have started gathering outside the building and the hospital and police are blocking the neighboring areas.

 

In the wake of the killing, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic convened an emergency meeting of the country’s Security Council. Marko Duric, who heads the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, said the Serb delegation was suspending its technical dialogue with Pristina in Brussels and returning to Belgrade.

Oliver Ivanovic, one of leaders of Kosovo Serbs, earlier served as the State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija in the Serb government. In January 2016, he was sentenced to 9 years in jail for war crimes against Albanians in 1999. In February 2017, the sentence announced by the first-instance court was overturned and a new trial began. Ivanovic was under house arrest and in April 2017 he was released.

Serbian protest in Belgrade against NATO, Karadzic’s 40-yr sentence

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Serbian radicals in Belgrade are protesting against NATO on the 17th anniversary of the bombing of Yugoslavia. They also rallied against a UN war crimes tribunal which yesterday sentenced former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in jail.

The rally was organized by the Serbian Radical Party, which is headed by Vojislav Seselj – who served as deputy prime minister of Serbia between 1998 and 2000.

The protest marked the 17th anniversary of the start of NATO’s bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, which began on March 24, 1999. The demonstrators held banners saying “NATO dropped more bombs on Serbia than all the terrorists in the world.”

“Those who were bombing us in 1999, who were killing our children, those criminals from NATO, have now got the right voted in by parliament to walk freely across Serbia,” Seselj said in his address to the crowds, as cited by the website Balkan Insight.

The protesters also criticized Thursday’s verdict delivered by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which sentenced Karadzic to 40 years in prison. The former Bosnian Serb president was found guilty on 10 charges out of 11.

Some of the protesters were carrying portraits of Karadzic.

Karadzic “was convicted [even though] he was innocent… and because he is Serb who found himself at a decisive and historic moment at the head of [the administrative entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina] Republika Srpska,” Seselj said.

The one charge that was dropped related to the allegations that Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide in seven municipalities of Bosnia. However, the 44-month siege of Sarajevo also amounts to a war crime, the judge ruled.

Though Karadzic was indicted by the tribunal in 1995, he was captured 13 years later in Belgrade, where he lived disguised as a faith healer. The Serbian authorities handed him over to international investigators for the trial, which began in 2009.

Video Warmonger: Hillary Clinton Architect of Libya-Syria war & Madeleine Albright Serbian war Architect

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Two Secretary of State two Warmonger Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright

WATCH: Here’s what Bernie Sanders told NBC’s Kate Snow about Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s comments that

“there is a special place in hell for women who don’t support each other. and is the same woman who said 

500,000 Iraqi children dead from sanctions was “worth it”. A few months later she was confirmed by the US Senate as Secretary of State and nobody even questioned her about this statement.

A prominent economics professor and political thinker has penned an article in which he calls Clinton a “war candidate” in the pocket of the military industrial complex.

Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned professor of economics, has authored a column in which he attacks presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton for her ties to the military industrial complex. Sachs, a senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist, said Clinton’s decisions as Senator and as Secretary of State have put the US in danger and led to an unending state of conflict.

“The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong,” Sachs writes. “Her so-called foreign policy “experience” has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.”

Sachs goes back to the administration of Bill Clinton, noting that the Clintons both have accepted money from both Wall Street and weapons contractors who have an interest in the US taking an active role in conflict around the world.

“Just as the last Clinton presidency set the stage for financial collapse, it also set the stage for unending war. On October 31, 1998 President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act that made it official US policy to support ‘regime change” in Iraq,” Sachs explains.

Sachs points out that, later in 2003, Hillary voted for war with Iraq in the US Senate, a war which many now criticize for having destabilized the region and helping push the US to financial collapse. 

Going forward in time, Sachs calls Clinton’s “record as Secretary of State is among the most militaristic, and disastrous, of modern US history.”

“Hilary was a staunch defender of the military-industrial-intelligence complex at every turn, helping to spread the Iraq mayhem over a swath of violence that now stretches from Mali to Afghanistan. Two disasters loom largest: Libya and Syria.”

Sachs places a lot of blame on Clinton for the crisis in Syria. 

“Perhaps the crowning disaster of this long list of disasters has been Hillary’s relentless promotion of CIA-led regime change in Syria,” he writes. “Once again Hillary bought into the CIA propaganda that regime change to remove Bashir al-Assad would be quick, costless, and surely successful.”

He also charges Clinton with fostering the current situation between the US and Russia by 

“Hillary’s support at every turn for NATO expansion, including even into Ukraine and Georgia against all common sense, was a trip wire that violated the post-Cold War settlement in Europe in 1991,” Sachs says. “As Senator in 2008, Hillary co-sponsored 2008-SR439, to include Ukraine and Georgia in NATO. As Secretary of State, she then presided over the restart of the Cold War with Russia.”

Istanbul the most dangerous city for visitors, Serbian Red Star fan stabbed to death in Istanbul

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n_74668_1The body of the killed Serbian basketball fan is taken to the Forensics Institute. DHA photo

A supporter of the Serbian basketball club Red Star was stabbed and killed on Nov. 21 in Istanbul in front of the venue where a Turkish Airlines Euroleague game between Galatasaray Liv Hospital and the visiting side was being played.

The Serbian club claimed in a written statement that the 25-year-old Marko Ivkovic was killed by Galatasaray hooligans, while the Istanbul police said the killing was the result of a fight between Red Star’s supporters.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic voiced “outrage over the monstrous murder,” a government statement said on Nov. 22.

Serbia demands that the perpetrator be urgently “found, arrested and most severely punished,” it added.

Armenian, Serbian Presidents meet in Yerevan

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Serbia-armenia-leadersAt the meeting with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić who has arrived in Armenia for an official visit, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan stated that the visit will give renewed impetus to the bilateral political dialogue and cooperation, according to the presidential press service.

Mr Nikolić said Serbia will make every effort to strengthen the bilateral interstate ties and deepen cooperation.

The Armenian President awarded the Order of Honor to the President of Serbia in connection with his visit to Armenia and as a token of Armenian-Serbian friendship. The Serbian President awarded the Order of the Republic of Serbia to the Armenian President.

Belgrade will take steps to strengthen Armenian-Serbian relations

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armenian-serbia-fmOfficial Belgrade will take steps to strengthen Armenian-Serbian relations.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić noted the aforesaid at his meeting, on Thursday in the Serbian capital city of Belgrade, with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.

Nikolić added that the Serbian and the Armenian peoples are connected to one another by historical friendly similarities.

In turn, Nalbandian conveyed to President Nikolić the best wishes by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, and expressed confidence that the Serbian leader’s forthcoming visit to Armenia’s capital city Yerevan will give new impetus to the expanding and deepening of cooperation between the two countries.

During the talk, the interlocutors stressed the willingness of both sides to further promote Armenian-Serbian relations, and underscored the establishment of reciprocal diplomatic representations in the two capital cities.

Tomislav Nikolić and Edward Nalbandian also exchanged views on several regional and international matters and the avenues for their resolution.

Security forces break up violent protest over Serb bridge barrier in northern Kosovo

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Police have broken up a protest by ethnic Albanians against the blockade by ethnic Serbs of the main bridge in Mitrovica in northern Kosovo. The town has often seen tension between the two ethnic groups.

 0,,17728421_303,00There were conflicting reports of just how the trouble in Mitrovica started on Sunday. The DPA news agency reports that several hundred ethnic-Albanians had tried to physically take down the barrier created by Serbs who live on the other side of the Ibar River.

Reuters said several hundred Abanians were simply protesting against the Serbs’ closure of the bridge for the past three years, when some of them began lobbing rocks at Kosovo police officers. The news agency also cited one of its local reporters who said Polish special police units, who are part of a European Union mission, opened fire with rubber bullets to break up the demonstration. These were backed up by US soldiers from NATO’s KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

The AFP news agency reported that local police had used tear gas to prevent the protesters from crossing over to the Serb side of town. Some of the demonstrators responded by setting on fire several vehicles, including two Kosovo police cars and two from the European Union rule of law mission, EULEX.

Barrier removed, then replaced

Sunday’s clashes were the latest incident in a strange turn of events in the city in which ethnic Albanians live on the southern side of the Ibar River, while the Serbs live on the northern side.

On Wednesday, a barrier made of earth and concrete block, which was erected by Serbs to keep out Albanians in 2011, was bulldozed away. Just hours later ethnic Serbs installed a new barrier made up of a line of planted pots with small fir trees, something which the local Serb mayor described as a “peace park.”

Many of the 40,000 ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo opposed a European Union-brokered deal reached last year meant to normalize ties between Serbia and its former southern province. The EU rewarded Serbia, which still doesn’t recognize Kosovo’s independence, by opening accession talks.

Kosovo, which unilaterally declared its independence in 2008, has been recognized by more than 100 countries, including most EU member states.

pfd/jm (Reuters, dpa, AFP)

Russia: Bulgarian, Serbian South Stream Sections Progress on Schedule

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Chairman of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin has assured that the construction of the Serbian and Bulgarian sections of the South Stream gas pipeline proceeds as scheduled.

photo_verybig_160525Naryshkin, who was on a two-day visit to Belgrade in early May, said in an interview for Rossiya 24 TV that everything proceeded according to plan and the documents had been coordinated.

He added that the construction of the Serbian section of the gas pipeline would begin in 2014 and it would start carrying gas supplies in 2016, with Belgrade expected to receive the first revenues from it, according to reports of the BGNES news agency.

Naryshkin also informed that all went as planned as regards the implementation of the Bulgarian stretch of the gas pipeline.