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—🇮🇳/🇦🇱 NEW: The number of Indians in Albania has increased by 68% from last year.

More than 1,500 now live in the country.

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—🇷🇺/🇷🇸 NEW: Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko said the government must balance firm action against unrest with addressing demonstrators’ demands, warning that protests could intensify in autumn with risks of escalating violence.

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In 1912, Austria-Hungary passed the “Islam Law,” a direct result of annexing Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908. With Bosnian Muslims now part of the empire, Islam was officially recognized in Central Europe for the first time. 🔗 FezBosniak ✅ Follow us on @balkanspectator
🇧🇦The word Bošnjak (Bošnjanin) originally meant any person from Bosnia, regardless of religion. In medieval times, both Christians and others were called Bošnjanin. But during the end of Ottoman rule (19th century), identity shifted more toward religion — Muslims were increasingly called Bošnjaci, while Christians began identifying as Serbs or Croats. This continued under Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslav rule, where Muslims were seen as a religious group, not a nation. In 1971, Yugoslavia officially recognized “Muslims” as a nationality, but the name Bošnjak wasn’t used again until 1993, when Bosnian Muslims re-adopted it to define their ethnic identity, not just religion. Since then, Bošnjak has referred specifically to Muslim Slavs from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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🇽🇰🏳️‍🌈🎉📆 — Albanian-controlled Kosovo will host the LGBT+ "Prishtina Queer Festival" starting Sept. 5.

➡️ The festival is financed by the Albanian Government of Kosovo and aims to promote Kosovo's LGBT+ culture.

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—❗🇷🇸/🇽🇰 NEW: Serb List faces exclusion from Kosovo’s local elections. ➡️ The US Chargé d’affaires in Kosovo has expressed concern over reports that Prime Minister Albin Kurti and his ruling party LVV are considering excluding certain political parties from…
—🇽🇰 NEW: The municipality of North Mitrovica has decided to rename 87 streets from Serbian names to names of Albanian heroes.

The move is aimed at strengthening Albanian identity in the Serb-majority city in Kosovo.

The main street will be renamed from Tsar Lazar to "Korza."

The decision has sparked anger among Serb residents, who say it was made without their consultation.

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—🇽🇰/🇷🇸 NEW: Serbia accused of harboring people wanted by Kosovo police.

Over 170 people wanted by Kosovo police for crimes including murder and terrorism are believed to be hiding in Serbia. Former officials warn Serbia may use these individuals for its own political and security purposes against Kosovo.

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—🇪🇺/🇧🇬 NEW: Ursula von der Leyen visited Bulgaria as part of her regional tour, highlighting Bulgaria's role in supplying weapons to Ukraine and strengthening European security.

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—❗️🇺🇸🪖🇽🇰/🇦🇱/🇧🇬 BREAKING: The United States has announced plans to strengthen military infrastructure in Kosovo, Albania and Bulgaria.

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🇬🇷 Greece will not participate in providing military security guarantees to Kyiv, — Foreign Minister Yorgos Gerapetritis
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🇺🇦🤝🇲🇩 Ukraine has restarted the export of metallurgical waste to the Râbnița (Rybnitsa) Metallurgical Plant after a year of pause caused by the war.

Despite Ukraine’s tough talk about “solving” the Transnistrian problem, the Ukrainian company, “D-Kamet” restarted exports of metallurgical waste. The waste is sent by train through the Pervomaisc-Cuciurgan crossing.

Although on the cargo’s documents the Republic of Moldova appears as the country of destination, the waste enters and stays in Transnistria, as the breakaway region controls and operates the Râbnița Metallurgical Plant.

In 2018 Kiev placed the Râbnița Metallurgical Plant on its sanctions list but, for reasons unknown, it took it off the sanctions list in 2019.

Due to the war in Ukraine, the loss of the Donbas industry and the destruction of other plants across Ukraine, Kiev is dealing with an increasing amount of metallurgical waste which is unable to process to the same extent it used to before 2022 so exporting it to Transnistria is a cheap way of getting rid of said waste.

Moldovan officials noticed the restart of Ukrainian exports to Transnistria after they saw an uptick in the electric energy consumption of Transnistria. The Râbnița Metallurgical Plant is the biggest consumer of electric energy in the breakaway region.

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🇪🇺 🇷🇴 🇺🇸 🇺🇦- EU calls on Trump to send American fighter jets to Romania as a means of guaranteeing Ukrainian security
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🇷🇺❌🇪🇺✈️ ❗️🇧🇬 — The aircraft transporting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was compelled to land in Bulgaria after Russian electronic warfare allegedly jammed its navigation, forcing reliance on manual charting.

➡️European officials expressed concern following the disruption, calling it a:
“serious act of interference.”
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—❗️🇷🇸 NEW: Serbian students march in Belgrade on tragedy anniversary.

High school students joined Serbia's ongoing anti-government protests on September 1, 2025, marking 10 months since the Novi Sad railway station collapse that killed 16 people, as Education Minister Dejan Vuk Stanković threatened disciplinary action against students participating in demonstrations.

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"Genetic structure of the Bosnian population" was published in the Journal of Human Genetics in 2019.

It aimed to examine the genetic composition of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Croats, and Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, using autosomal DNA analysis.

The primary goal was to assess the genetic differences (or lack thereof) between these groups and determine whether religious identity (Islam, Catholicism, Orthodoxy) and ethnicity (Bosniak, Croat, Serb) correspond to significant genetic divergence.

The study included data from over 1,000 individuals, making it a large sample size, which increases the reliability of the findings. It used state-of-the-art genetic techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and FST (Fixation Index), to analyze and quantify genetic structure.

Spoiler alert -- no significant genetic divergence.
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🇬🇷🇨🇾🇹🇷 The Turkish army is expanding its presence in Cyprus, raising the command level from major general to lieutenant general, and increasing the number of soldiers present to 100,000 from the current 40,000.

Turkey claims that the growing threat from Israel is prompting new strategic measures on the island, while voices are increasingly heard in Turkey that for security reasons and given the threat from both Israel and Greece, it is necessary for the entire Cyprus to become the Turkish Republic.

The command of the Turkish peacekeeping occupation forces in Cyprus, previously led by a major general, has been elevated by a decision of the Supreme Military Council, and the current combat force has been doubled, Greek media report.

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#BREAKING | During a Saturday address, a map displayed behind Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov depicted Ukraine’s Odesa and Mykolaiv regions as part of Russian territory, alongside the partially occupied and annexed Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson regions. The map, shown during the presentation, has sparked controversy, signaling Russia’s territorial ambitions beyond its 2022 annexations.

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🇸🇰🇷🇺 - Slovakia resumed issuing tourist visas for Russia's nationals.
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