Bujar Terstena is a video journalist based in the Pristina bureau of RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Voters in four mostly Serb municipalities of northern Kosovo went to the polls on April 21 to decide the fate of ethnic Albanian mayors whose installation sparked violence a year ago.
On February 1, a ban on the use of foreign cash transactions goes into force in Kosovo -- primarily affecting the country's ethnic Serb minority, who rely on Serbian dinars on a daily basis. For some, the change affects aspects of life from collecting pensions to paying taxi fares.
Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo have begun signing petitions to dismiss ethnic Albanian mayors in two of four Serb-majority municipalities. The mayors were elected in snap polls in April 2023 amid a boycott of the vote by local Serbs.
Most of the players in Kosovo's amputee soccer team lost limbs to land mines during or after their country's 1990s conflict. They've had to overcome prejudice but are now competing in international competitions.
Starting from January 1, Kosovars no longer need visas to enter the Schengen Area. "It's a feeling beyond description," a happy traveler told RFE/RL at the Pristina airport.
Hundreds of people marched in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, on December 5 to demand justice for Liridona Murseli, a 30-year-old woman whose killing was allegedly arranged by her husband. The mother of two was shot in the family car on November 29 in what police first thought was a robbery gone wrong.
The Israeli men's national soccer team was warming up at a Pristina stadium guarded by the police on November 11, a day before facing Kosovo in a postponed qualifying match for the Euro 2024 tournament. The game will be the Israeli team's first international appearance since the Hamas attacks.
Amid what local police say is a surge in ethnic tensions, North Mitrovica's Bosnian Quarter has lost much of the population of the ethnic group that gave the neighborhood its name.
The ethnically divided town of Mitrovica in Kosovo is holding its first international jazz festival, running through September 2. The event is uniting music fans in a town that has been divided by tensions between ethnic Albanian and Serb citizens.
Far from the unrest and increased security on both sides of the Kosovar-Serbian border, ethnic Serbs seeking jobs instead of shedding them in protest want more of Belgrade's attention.
