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The “Pronto” scandal: Wire-tapping senior officials in Kosovo

Kosovo Albanians watch on a TV screen UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's news conference in a restaurant in the Kosovo capital Pristina, 02 February 2007. The draft proposal which former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari presented earlier Friday to Serbian and Kosovar leaders, "does not explicitly mention the independence of Kosovo, nor Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity in relation to our southern province," Serbian president Boris Tadic said in a statement. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF

This article is published in collaboration with the regional portal Bilten. It’s been a month since one of the main portals in Kosovo, “Insajderi”, began publishing a series of tapped telephone conversations among senior political officials in Kosovo. This was the biggest scandal of its kind since the liberation of the country and the reaction […]

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The Puzzling Fall of Bulgarian Liberal Leader Mestan

Ahmed Dogan's assassination attempt Source: Newtrend.Bg

Note of the LeftEast editors: the articles is published in co-operation with the Serbo-Croatian web portal Bilten.Org. Bulgaria’s political scene is notorious for its volatility: parties come and go, sometimes sweeping to power months after being formed; cabinets seldom last a full term in office. Amid this flux, the liberal Movement for Rights and Freedoms […]