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Tidings from Prishtina Insight, an online magazine published by BIRN Kosovo. To find out more about the organization please visit the official website.

04/06/2026

The Russian-language portal PolitNavigator has become a source of disinformation about Kosovo, promoting narratives that align with the political positions of Serbia and the Kremlin.

PolitNavigator’s influence extends beyond its own website. Its content is regularly recycled through the Pravda network and other pro-Kremlin platforms, including Telegram channels operating in multiple languages.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com.

03/06/2026

BIRN and Internews Kosova have demanded the removal of a statement issued by Prishtina’s Chief Prosecutor Zejnullah Gashi in relation to an investigation into his conduct, alleging that it contains defamatory claims against journalists. They warned that they may take legal action if it remains published.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com.

02/06/2026

As Kosovo heads toward snap parliamentary elections set for June 7, 2026, social media platforms have flooded with AI-generated images, videos, and fabricated statements targeting political candidates across all parties.

The manipulated content ranges from deepfake-style images and altered videos to fabricated quotations and misleading posts repurposed from satirical sources.

Women have also been targeted, with former President Vjosa Osmani as one of the most frequent subjects of manipulated content since her return as leader of the LDK electoral list and the party’s presidential candidate.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com

31/05/2026

In the living room of the Gërxhaliu house, in Studime village in Kosovo’s northern municipality of Vushtrri, the photographs of 13 family members who were murdered by Serbian forces on May 31, 1999, are carefully arranged across the family’s old sofa.

Seven of the victims were children.

Nexhmedin Gërxhaliu returned home from Germany in mid June 1999, several days after NATO troops entered Kosovo following a 78-day air bombing campaign.

A place that held countless childhood memories had turned into the site of a massacre.

Gërxhaliu, now 64, and his daughter Elisa, now 20, would continue to live in the house where thirteen of their family members had been massacred for 19 years—until 2018.

For many survivors across Kosovo, wartime crime scenes are not distant memorials but spaces of everyday life.

Read more at the link in the comments.

29/05/2026

Serbia’s student movement, which emerged as civic resistance against corruption and nepotism, is feeding Kremlin-based disinformation campaigns about Kosovo after adopting a rhetoric on the country that analysts say echoes nationalist narratives.

The Serbian student movement memorandum on Kosovo, describes Kosovo as an “inalienable and integral part of the Republic of Serbia” and as a matter of “personal and collective responsibility”.

“It largely reflects mainstream public opinion in Serbia. Liberal circles view such rhetoric as outdated and misguided,” Slobodan Georgiev, director of Nova News.

“The text is conceptually backward and completely incompatible with contemporary democratic political thought. It sounds as if it was taken directly from the late 1980s, after a 40-year amnesia about everything that has happened in the region”, Artan Muhaxhiri, sociologist and political analyst.

Moreover, Kremlin affiliated media outlets, known as the Pravda network, emphasised the narratives of Kosovo as central to “Serbian national identity” while a recent report by BIRN Kosovo found that Kremlin linked media spread misleading and politically charged content about Kosovo.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com

28/05/2026

A Kosovo Prosecutor visited then-Justice Minister Albulena Haxhiu to justify a corruption investigation involving a politically sensitive official, according to a police file obtained by KALLXO.com.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com.

26/05/2026

Kosovo’s government has initiated procedures to establish a gendarmerie force, presenting the move as part of broader efforts to strengthen the country’s security architecture amid regional tensions and concerns over terrorism, border security and organised crime.

“A very important aspect of Kosovo’s security concerns an area that is more than police and less than the army”, Albin Kurti, acting prime minister.

Panelists on the Kallxo Përnime TV programme on May 20 discussed whether Kosovo needs a new force or increased investment in the police and the army.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com.

25/05/2026

Kosovo’s opposition parties are bringing back familiar political figures ahead of the early June 7 elections in an effort to challenge the dominance of acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s Vetëvendosje Movement.

Political analysts stated that the return of veteran political figures reflects a broader lack of leadership renewal and internal development within Kosovo’s traditional opposition parties.

“The only realistic path for the opposition is to deconstruct the populism of Albin Kurti and engage more seriously with the diaspora vote,” Artan Muhaxhiri, political analyst.

“They are trying to defeat a giant piece by piece and in this case, the giant is Vetëvendosje,” Dritëro Arifi, political analyst.

Meanwhile, Serbian political scene in Kosovo remains polarised between actors supported either by Serbia or Kosovo.

"In such a political environment, there is practically no space for another voice from the Serbian community to gain visibility or political relevance,” Zoran Savic, Aktiv NGO.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com.

22/05/2026

Stranded between traumatic memories and everyday life, many survivors of wartime massacres in Kosovo, continued living inside the houses where their relatives were murdered.

Nexhmedin Gërxhaliu and his daughter Elisa have lived for 19 years in a house in Studime village, in the northern municipality of Vushtrri, where thirteen members of their family were massacred on May 31, 1999.

In Gjakova, Pranvera Sharani and her four children spent years sleeping in the same house whose courtyard was the ex*****on site for 11 men, six of their family members and five neighbours, on May 10, 1999.

“We are walking on their blood. We live in the shadow of crimes,” Pranvera Sharani.

Read more at prishtinainsight.com

21/05/2026

‘Dua’, a film about a girl coming of age in the late ‘90s in Kosovo, received the prestigious SACD award at Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, a recognition that honours screenwriters and directors with outstanding artistic vision in world cinema.

“I focused on portraying the feeling, the atmosphere, and the way I experienced that time as a child,” director Blerta Basholli stated in an interview for Prishtina Insight.

Read our in depth interview with Basholli, from late April, at our website.

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