Dusan Janjic

"Worse than a crime" - that is how the Czech President described the bombing of Yugoslavia. At the time when the bombing was being decided upon, that country was in NATO for only a few weeks, and was the last one to give its consent, says Zeman, emphasizing that decision as a lack of courage.

"That's nonsense, nobody's coming," Dacic told Belgrade daily Politika, Beta agency is reporting on Thursday.

Athens could recognize Kosovo, if requested by Washington - for several reasons, Sputnik is reporting.

The biggest among them is economic, due to the pressure coming from the EU and Germany, the article said.

The biggest among them is economic, due to the pressure coming from the EU and Germany, the article said.

Over 4,000 people have signed a petition calling for the mostly Bosniak Muslim region of Sandzak, straddling Serbia and Montenegro, to be declared a cross-border region of the type that exists in the European Union.

Forum for Ethnic Relations Director Dusan Janjic has announced that he will be a candidate in Serbia's upcoming presidential elections.

Asked whether he "gave up on the idea to be a presidential candidate," Janjic told state broadcaster RTS:

Dragisa Murganic, secretary of the Red Cross in Kosovo, told BIRN that they backed an appeal for Serbs in Kosovo to donate part of their income to the Serbian Orthodox Church's Diocese of Raska and Prizren.

"It is a good proposal. Everything that's in the interest of the people of Kosovo is welcome. We need to express a lot more solidarity in these difficult times," Murganic said.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says Serbia will take in a portion of the migrants moving through Europe, although it is not yet an EU member state.

Serbia's Prime Minister has given a cool response to leaks of the President's platform on Kosovo, which has not been revealed in entirety but, according to the daily newspaper Politika, TV B92 and some other media, offers Kosovo only the status of a province within Serbia.

"Riots could break out in Kosovo," warns analyst

BELGRADE -- The latest spate of incidents in Kosovo and Metohija "could turn into serious rioting," analyst Dusan Janjic of the Forum for Ethnic Relations has said.

According to him, "social, political, and even inter-ethnic turbulence is ahead this year."