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Kyiv Sleeps in Hallways and Wakes in Ashes

In Kyiv, we don’t sleep in beds, we sleep between walls, praying they’re thick enough to hold back death until morning.
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Reporting from a War Zone: The Crucial Responsibility of Journalists
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Kosovo's Opposition: A Threat to Democracy
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Disinformation and Control: The Battle Over Diaspora Voting
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The Fragile Peace of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Balkan Watch

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Jack Smith and the Kosovo Disinformation Machine
A disinformation campaign tied to Trump’s vendetta against Jack Smith is warping justice in Kosovo, with Grenell’s shadow diplomacy casting doubt on The…
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Kosovo’s Democracy Is Being Hijacked
A silent coup unfolds in Kosovo: entrenched warlords sabotage reform, paralyse parliament, and threaten the fragile democracy built after war.
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Aco's Arsenal: Guns, Lies, and Diplomats
A massive arms cache linked to Aleksandar Arsenijevic exposes a dangerous nexus of political extremism, Serbian aggression, and Western diplomatic…
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The Balkan Lie Trump Believed
There was no war to stop, only a crisis Grenell helped create. Trump was misled, Kosovo was cornered, and Serbia celebrated.
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Rama’s Fourth Term, Kosovo’s Ticking Clock
Albania’s foreign policy on Kosovo, under Edi Rama, increasingly echoes Vucic’s agenda, eroding sovereignty, legitimising Serbian narratives, and…
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POLITICS

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Zelensky’s Odessa Summit: A Stage for Surrender
Zelensky begged the West for solidarity, then bowed to Putin’s puppet. In Odessa, he didn’t defend sovereignty, he betrayed it. Kosovo excluded, Vucic…
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False Flags and Friendly Lies
Vucic’s visit to Ukraine is not diplomacy,it’s infiltration. A Kremlin loyalist cloaked in lies, exploiting Ukraine’s struggle to whitewash Serbia’s…
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How the EU Abandoned Democracy in Kosovo
The EU's punishment of Kosovo for defending its sovereignty exposes Brussels' moral collapse and strategic cowardice, appeasing autocracy while…
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Trump Talks, Medvedev Threatens, Ukraine Bleeds
Trump’s bravado met Medvedev’s threat of World War III. This isn’t diplomacy, it’s performance. And in Ukraine, theatre kills. Sarcasm doesn’t bury the…
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EU Integrity for Sale: Tirana Edition
Europe congratulated a contested strongman, not a democracy. Either blind, compromised, or complicit. Brussels has chosen Balkan autocracy over…
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Veterans for Sale: The OVL-UÇK Scandal
The OVL-UÇK disgraced Kosovo’s wartime legacy by appealing to Richard Grenell, an apologist for Serbian war crimes, pleading for intervention against…
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Reporting from a War Zone: The Crucial Responsibility of Journalists
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Kosovo's Opposition: A Threat to Democracy
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Disinformation and Control: The Battle Over Diaspora Voting
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The Fragile Peace of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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From Silk to Steel Turning Fashion into Armour: One Woman’s War Effort in Kharkiv
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Reportage

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Where the Sewing Machines Burned
No uniforms here. Just melted thread, scorched machines, and women who whispered hope into rubble. “We’ll sew again,” one said. “Because we’re not…
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Two Campaign Rallies, One Fractured Democracy
In Albania, democracy wears a mask. Rama's stage-managed control clashes with Berisha's chaotic nostalgia, while citizens watch, whisper, and wonder if…
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The Art of Defiance: Ruslan’s War
In the trenches, war steals everything, homes, futures, lives. Yet Ruslan fights with ink, not bullets. His art shames tyrants. His laughter defies…
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When Music Stops: A Violinist's Journey to the Frontline
Amid war's chaos, Natalia traded her violin for an ambulance, finding purpose in saving lives, while Olga found strength in preserving their shared…
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From Silk to Steel Turning Fashion into Armour: One Woman’s War Effort in Kharkiv
In war-torn Kharkiv, Natalia transforms her skills from luxury clothing to life-saving military gear, stitching hope and survival into every piece she…
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War Diaries

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Kyiv Sleeps in Hallways and Wakes in Ashes
In Kyiv, we don’t sleep in beds, we sleep between walls, praying they’re thick enough to hold back death until morning.
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Lang Holds the Line
Once an archaeologist, now a war-weary major, Lang buries friends instead of relics, fighting drones, grief, and silence to defend a country…
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Dreaming in Wartime Kyiv
The war claims more than bodies. It steals futures, dims ambition, quiets the boldness to create. And yet, beneath the ruins, some voices still dream.
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2000 Metres to Andriivka: Bearing Witness to a War Without End
Two thousand metres of shattered forest, three months of crawling death. Boys became soldiers, soldiers became ghosts. And in the end, nothing remained…
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Savile Row Suits, Ukrainian Graves
The West didn’t just abandon Ukraine, it commodified its suffering, outsourced its resistance, and let democracy rot while feeding speeches to the…
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Chronicles of an Investigation

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Kosovo’s Cognitive Blindspot
How Serbia and Russia Wage a Psychological War on the Republic, and Why Prishtina Must Respond Now.
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How Media Fakery Is Targeting Kosovo’s Specialist Chambers
Stolen journalism, fabricated witnesses, and Russian-backed narratives: How a coordinated disinformation machine is working to derail war crimes…
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The Plot That Was Never Told, Until Zeka Lied on Air
We never told the story. Then Zeka told it for us live, and falsely. How a single unanswered message sparked a dangerous disinformation spiral.
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The Spy Who Wasn’t Vetted
A fired Kosovar spy now leads Albania’s intelligence, sparking fears over loyalty and foreign sway as Edi Rama enters a fourth term, has the shadow…
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The Conspiracy Against Kosovo's Justice System Unraveled
In response to manipulated attacks, we're granting free access to our latest investigative report, ensuring every reader sees the unfiltered truth.
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Double Dealing: A Journalist, a Fixer, and a Master of Manipulation
Unveiling Milaim Zeka’s role in manipulating Kosovo's narrative, targeting the KSC in The Hague with a campaign of disinformation and deceit utilising…
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Inside the Disinformation Machine
From Crime to Covert Operations: The Rise of Halit Sahitaj in Targeting Kosovo's Special Chambers Tribunal. The GPC I Unit traced the Criminal Turned…
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Michael Sheppard
Inside the Plot to Dismantle Kosovo’s War Crimes Tribunal
How a simple Facebook bribe unravelled into a scandal, unveiling a clandestine effort to sabotage Kosovo’s Special Chambers and destabilise a nation.
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World Watch

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Trump Frees Russia’s War Funds
BREAKING: Trump greenlights U.S. transactions with Russia’s top banks, easing nuclear sanctions—effectively unlocking war funds for Putin amid…
When Sympathy Runs Out: Israel’s Lie About Iran
Global sympathy for Israel is waning, not from indifference, but from exhaustion with decades of deception, brutality in Gaza, and false nuclear alarms…
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From Belgrade, With Sabotage
Interview With Vudi Xhymshiti Sheds Stark Light on Serbia's Geopolitical Double Game. Serbia plays both sides: arming Ukraine with one hand, fuelling…
Airstrikes and Retaliation: Israel Hits, Iran Fires Back
Israel launched pre-dawn airstrikes across Iran, targeting nuclear sites and military leaders. Iran retaliated with missiles, sparking fears of a wider…
Ukraine Gets Range, Russia Gets Angry
Germany backs Ukrainian-made long-range weapons, lifting range limits. The Kremlin threatens Berlin directly. As Kyiv builds capability, Moscow’s fury…
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Westminster Watch

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Lyrics Don’t Kill. Bombs Do.
Bob Vylan shouted. The IDF shelled. One got cancelled. The other got armed. Tell me again who’s dangerous. Britain’s media isn’t blind, it’s complicit.
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Britain’s Air Base Breach: Activism or Alarm?
Calling protest “terrorism” is not security, it’s suppression. If two civilians breached Britain’s top air base, the threat isn’t activism, it’s…
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When the Lights Go Out: Is the Kremlin Striking London?
Heathrow goes dark, Britain stumbles. Was it an accident, or Russia’s shadow war in action? In modern conflict, the battlefield isn’t where you expect…
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Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, and the Chaotic Future of UK Political Funding
British democracy, once a battle of ideas, is now an auction for billionaires. Musk’s flirtation with Reform UK exposes a nation for sale to the highest…
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The Age of Impunity: How Autocrats Win When Democracies Falter
Kenneth Roth warns: human rights are under siege. From Trump’s embrace of dictators to China’s war on truth, silence isn’t neutrality, it’s complicity.
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