At the end of November, after 120 days of wrangling between the Serbian and Kosovan governments, talks on the future status of Kosova, sponsored by the United Nations, finally broke down. The new Kosovan government announced that it would declare independence in the foreseeable future, possibly in February after the Serbian elections. Read more...

It is now one year since NATO bombed Yugoslavia in an alleged attempt to save Kosova from ethnic cleansing. As talk of partition persists, violence escalates and the UN presides over chaotic conditions, many Kosovars may justifiably ask just what they were saved from. Read more...

What has been the outcome of the war in Kosova? The bosses' magazine, The Economist, euphemistically calls it a "messy peace". Read more...