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Tanaskovic brought in village Druzetici daughter-in-law from Skadar, Albania. While older people are surprissed, bachelors from village are inquiring are there more girls willing to com In village. In house of tanaskovic, soon, a Albanian bride will arrive for older son, as well. Gornji Milanovac, Serbia After the long years of wishing and secretly hoping that they will finally get daughter-in-law, these days wishes came trough for felthy farmer Radic Tanaskovic(72) and his wife Dusanka. Their son Mico (36) brought in the house a bride Merita from Skadar, Albania, and with little luck, in a few month his brother Rados...

Does Kosovo’s declaration of independence have any specific significance for Israel? The resulting call for a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood by Mahmoud Abbas’s aide Yasser Abed-Rabbo was so quickly disavowed by his boss, that Israel is well advised to focus its investigations on other consequences. Kosovo’s independence further destabilizes the Balkan and creates more confusion than clarity. While no answer about the consequences of this step for Israel is yet possible a useful first approach to analyze its relevance is thus to ask first who gains and who loses from it. ... Another beneficiary is the Muslim world, which...

Israel will not be recognising Kosovo’s independence in the next few weeks, out of concern for the implications that recognition might have both on negotiations with the Palestinians and relations with Russia. Israel’s main Western allies — the United States, Britain, France and Germany — all rushed to accept Kosovo’s independence following the announcement by the Kosovar government on Sunday. But Israel is being reticent, despite Foreign Ministry officials and politicians privately voicing a general sympathy towards the Kosovar cause. One of the main reasons is that Israel is anxious not to encourage a precedent whereby the populations of disputed...

MOSCOW (AP) - A senior Russian diplomat said Monday that Moscow has prepared an action plan that envisages close coordination with Serbia should the West recognize any Kosovo declaration of independence. Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry's special envoy to the Balkans, said Moscow is encouraging more talks between the Serbs and the province's ethnic Albanian majority. He said, however, that chances for such talks are rapidly decreasing, with Kosovo's leaders expected to declare independence soon. Botsan-Kharchenko said at a meeting with Russian lawmakers that the ministry had worked out a plan of action if Kosovo declares independence, and the...

First it came loudly and clearly through the State Department when on May 15 in Moscow, after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Kosovo will never again be a part of Serbia." Then, in late May, George Bush himself came out in favor of the so-called Ahtisaari Plan for the Serbian province of Kosovo, named after its creator, Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland, by which that province is to gain independence under "international supervision," a view he has now restated at the G-8 Summit of the world's leading industrial states in Germany....