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Serbia’s Threats Against Kosovo’s Prime Minister Are No Longer Implicit
As Kosovo heads toward its third election in sixteen months, threats against Prime Minister Albin Kurti expose deepening regional instability and…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Forces Driving Kosovo’s Cycle of Crisis
What appears as procedural deadlock in Kosovo is, in effect, a sustained disruption of governance that has stalled reform, weakened security, and forced…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
Russian-Style Paralysis in a Balkan Republic
Kosovo’s presidential deadlock is no mere legal spat; it is a high-stakes test of whether a young republic can survive internal sabotage and foreign…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
The Afterlife of Hashim Thaçi's Manual for Terror
Even the LDK, once the target of assassination, now mimics its hunters. A democracy decays when the prey begins to find the predator’s methods…
 • Vudi Xhymshiti
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
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