Arben Hoti is a camera operator for RFE/RL's Kosovo Service.
The Friendship Bridge was once a busy crossing between Estonia and Russia. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Estonia has had to beef up its security, but keeping Russia out is difficult. Most ethnic Russians in Narva watch Kremlin TV, and Moscow has ramped up cyberattacks on its NATO neighbor.
On September 24, 2023, dozens of ethnic Serb gunmen attacked a police unit in the village of Banjska in northern Kosovo. The motives behind the attack remain unclear. This month, Kosovar authorities indicted 45 people over the assault, including a politician who is thought to be at large in Serbia.
NATO-led troops ended the devastating war in Kosovo 25 years ago, but attacks on Serbian heritage have altered the cultural landscape of the region. Several damaged churches and monasteries have been restored with EU funds, others have disappeared completely.
Fans from Kosovo and abroad are attending a music festival in Pristina founded by pop singer Dua Lipa and her father. Twenty-five years after the war in Kosovo, the festival's founders hope the event is helping to change the country's image and promote it as a cultural destination.
It is 25 years since the NATO-led KFOR force arrived in Kosovo to keep the peace between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, and Fatmir Kelmendi still has vivid memories of welcoming French soldiers to the town of Mitrovica.
Milihate Cokli’s 20-year-old daughter, Erona, was killed by her ex-husband in April after a custody battle over their infant son. One of two killings of women within a five-day period, it shocked Kosovars and prompted calls for stronger action against gender-based violence.
The exhibit, Ukraine: A War Crime, opened in Pristina on April 29. It draws its inspiration from the book of the same name, which includes images and firsthand accounts from photojournalists who documented the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ergjan Mehmeti says he's the first actor from Kosovo's small Ashkali community. Ashkalis are an ethnic minority who have struggled with discrimination, poor access to education, and unemployment. Mehmeti has now returned to his hometown with a project that he hopes can help overcome prejudice.
With no easy access to the nearest city, villagers in northern Albania regularly cross the border into Kosovo to conduct business. In the Kosovar town of Dragash, migrants find a lively market for their farm produce and health services they can't access back home.
Serbian citizens from northern Kosovo got on buses early on December 17 to reach polling stations in Serbia. Some 120,000 voters from Kosovo are eligible to cast ballots in Serbia's snap parliamentary and municipal elections.
Kosovo’s only ferronickel plant has restarted production for the first time since closing in 2021 over soaring energy costs.
The NATO-led KFOR mission in Kosovo announced that about two dozen of its troops were injured while dispersing ethnic Serb protesters in the town of Zvecan on May 29. Some demonstrators set fires and attacked KFOR troops with stones and bottles.
Low turnout was reported in the extraordinary local elections held in predominantly ethnic Serbian municipalities in northern Kosovo on April 23. Most of the voters in RFE/RL footage from North Mitrovica and Zvecan are local Albanians, due to a boycott by the dominant Kosovo Serb party.
Kosovo's two largest power plants are also the country's largest polluters, and residents who live near the coal-burning stations link the emissions to serious health conditions. Environmental groups say poor regulations on industry have allowed pollution to continue unchecked.
There are so many placentas being stored at the biggest hospital in Kosovo, the doors to the freezers where they are stored cannot close and they have been rotting. The terrible smell and unsanitary conditions came about due to delays over finding a new private contractor to dispose of them.
