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Milosevic's Vidovdan Must End in Kosovo
Vidovdan ceased being history in 1989. For Kosovo Albanians, it became the political prologue to dispossession, persecution, ethnic cleansing and a…
12 hrs ago • Vudi Xhymshiti
Inside Kosovo's Most Consequential Trial
Where investigative journalism meets international law, a grim picture emerges of Kosovo’s leadership using wartime structures to silence domestic…
Jun 27
Inside the Revolt Shaking Edi Rama’s State
By weaponizing unauthenticated wartime documents against a protest figure, Rama has violently thrust Albania’s environmental crisis into the toxic arena…
Jun 26 • Vudi Xhymshiti and Michael Sheppard
Albanians Demand a New Social Contract
Rejecting both major political parties, Albanian citizens are taking to Skanderbeg Square daily to demand a completely new social contract with their…
Jun 25 • Vudi Xhymshiti and Michael Sheppard
National Security Begins at Home
Cutting welfare to fund defence is a false choice. National resilience depends upon citizens who believe their country offers security, opportunity…
Jun 22 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Why a Serbian State-Backed Media Network Is Expanding Into Poland
The danger is not a single television channel. It is the slow construction of an information architecture capable of reshaping political realities…
Jun 16 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Ramush Haradinaj's Long War Against Institutional Kosovo
From Radoicic to Grenell, ContourGlobal & false CIA narrative surrounding R Patrick, the same question keeps resurfacing. Why Haradinaj so often appear…
Jun 15 • Michael Sheppard, Vudi Xhymshiti, and Rodrigo Hammond
Peace Held in Kosovo. Is NATO Leaving Too Soon?
The lesson of Bosnia and Kosovo is stark. Violence expanded when democracies hesitated and receded only when power intervened to stop aggression against…
Jun 13 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Total Collapse of Vjosa Osmani’s Institutional Mask
International networks must stop treating Vjosa Osmani as an innocent witness when she and Lumir Abdixhiku remain the true authors of Kosovo’s deadlock.
Jun 12 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Elmi Reçica and the Senior Political Activation of the Assassination Manual
Our reporting raised a question about who ultimately activates political pressure. On 10 June, Elmi Reçica appeared to answer it.
Jun 12 • Michael Sheppard and Vudi Xhymshiti
The Deadlock, The Presidency and the Missing Explanation
On CNN, Vjosa Osmani described Kosovo's crisis. What remained unexplained was her own role in the sequence of events that produced it.
Jun 9 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Kosovo’s Opposition Is Turning Democracy Into Deadlock
As Kosovo heads to a third election in sixteen months, procedural deadlock is becoming a political weapon, eroding governance and national resilience.
Jun 7 • Vudi Xhymshiti
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