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Lawmakers Face a Ticking Clock to Save the State
Vjosa Osmani’s premature decree to dissolve parliament failed a basic constitutional test, revealing a presidency more interested in tactical escalation…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Serbia’s Assassination Threat Against Kosovo’s Prime Minister
Serbia’s security establishment publicly floated Mossad-style operations against Kosovo’s leader, raising a chilling question: is Belgrade threatening…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Kosovo Court Blocks Presidential Decree to Dissolve Parliament
In a high-stakes constitutional test, Kosovo’s top court halted President Vjosa Osmani’s bid to dissolve parliament, effectively stalling a volatile…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Unanswered Allegations Trailing Vjosa Osmani
After dissolving Parliament under contested legal pretenses, President Vjosa Osmani faces a harrowing question: is she guarding Kosovo’s democracy or…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti, Michael Sheppard, and Fried Didden
How a President Burned the House to Save the Seat
Osmani’s abrupt dissolution of Parliament isn't a constitutional remedy; it’s a calculated arson of the legislative branch to bypass a boycott her own…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Kosovo Tried to Arm Itself. Its Politics Said No.
Days after that attack, Kosovo’s opposition froze the Security Fund, choosing courts over readiness, legality over deterrence, and paralysis at the…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Kosovo’s Fight Against Vetoes, Proxies and Fear
Kosovo’s democracy is paralysed by internal sabotage and Serbian-Russian influence, as the West hesitates and the state risks sliding from deadlock into…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Punch in the Square: Kosovo’s Democratic Stress Test
An MP’s punch in Pristina crystallises a deeper crisis collapsing restraint, performative media, fraying trust and rising vulnerabilities that foreign…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Punch That Exposed Kosovo's Rotten Press
A politician’s punch is not provocation or “self-defence.” It is authoritarian violence and the media that excused it helped assault truth, democracy…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Armend Zemaj’s Blow and the Cowardice of Power
When an MP’s fist silences a citizen’s word, democracy dies twice, once in the strike itself, and once in the applause that follows.
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Inside Kosovo’s Banjska Prosecutor Scandal
The prosecutor responsible for the Banjska case now faces scrutiny after admitting the arrest warrant for Milan Radoicic was lifted under controversial…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti and Michael Sheppard
A Coup by Procedure? Kosovo’s Opposition Risks Democratic Collapse
As Kosovo earns global recognition for reform, internal paralysis driven by opposition obstruction now threatens to unravel its democratic progress…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
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