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Why Kosovo’s Most Famous Voice Was Never Truly Its Own
While Kosovo bled, Haxhiu shared pleasantries and "pleasant" company with Jovica Stanisic, the architect of ethnic cleansing, in a sequence of meetings…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
A Republic Built on the Silence of Thaçi’s Dead
Beyond the bullets, a year-long investigation reveals Hashim Thaçi’s chilling method of selective violence and narrative engineering used to consolidate…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Violent Reflexes of Hashim Thaçi's Dying Political Order
By unmasking the "assassination manual," we triggered a dormant predator. The PDK’s subsequent campaign of dehumanisation is the sound of Hashim Thaçi's…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Decoding Hashim Thaçi's ‘Assassination Manual’ in Modern Pristina
VOX Kosova functions not as a newsroom, but as a predatory annex, laundering Thaçi's "Assassination Manual" tactics into televised hits to facilitate…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Man Who Survived the Assassination Manual
Following our report on "Thaçi’s Assassination Manual," a new witness emerges. He doesn't just theorise about power, he details the prison cell and the…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Collapse of a Manufactured Authority
For years, Grenell blurred diplomacy and advocacy. Now, as his leverage fades, Kosovo’s political class must answer for treating assertion as American…
A Nation Forced to Look at the Blood on Its Hands
Kosovo’s independence celebrations turned into a roar of defiance this February, as the trial of Hashim Thaçi forces a painful reckoning with the…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
From the Ashes of Yugoslavia to the Independence of Kosovo
From Milosevic’s rise to the 2008 declaration, Kosovo’s path to statehood was forged through systemic repression, NATO intervention, and a desperate…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti, Michael Sheppard, Rodrigo Hammond, and Fried Didden
After Grenell: The Pressure Changes, Not the Game
Grenell’s diminished standing marks not an end to external pressure, but a test of whether Balkan politics will be shaped by durable systems rather than…
 • Michael Sheppard
Kosovo and the Gates of Belief
Kosovo stands at Europe’s gate, proving democracy survives only when defended — not assumed and warning what happens when belief gives way to…
 • Michael Sheppard
The Fall of a Power Broker and Its Consequences in Kosovo
By detailing Grenell’s shrinking authority, the Daily Mail reinforces our earlier findings that his Balkan influence relied more on access than formal…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
What Happened After Vehbi Kajtazi Turned a Fabricated List into an Espionage Story
Vehbi Kajtazi's Fabricated Espionage list was followed by 479 accounts targeting our reporting, a wave of repetition that exposed the scale of digital…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
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