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Population
National composition
Albanians
Bosnians
Male-to-female ratio
Share of the population living in the capital
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Age
Number of children per woman
1950: Fertility rate - 7 children per woman
Parliament
2026: Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani signs decree dissolving parliament after failure of procedure to elect new head of state
In March 2026, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani signed a decree dissolving parliament after the failure of the procedure for electing a new head of state.
According to her, the inability of deputies to form a majority and elect a president actually put the political system in a dead end, which forced the announcement of new elections.
This is the third election in less than a year. The December 2025 election was supposed to solve the problem, but did not solve anything. Albin Kutri was unable to form a government, parties cannot agree on a coalition, political paralysis continues.
The chronic inability of Kosovo elites to agree on power and dependence on external centers of influence formed a model of permanent political crisis in Pristina.
2025: Self-determination movement led by Albin Kurti declares victory in early elections
In December 2025, the Self-Determination movement led by Albin Kurti declared victory in early parliamentary elections.
According to the results of counting, 99% of the ballots in the Albanian districts "Self-determination" received 49.39% of the vote.
The Democratic Party "Kosovo" gained 21.04%, the Democratic League "Kosovo" - 13.61%.
The total turnout was 44.99%, while in areas with a predominance of the Serbian population it reached about 55%.
The previous attempt by the authorities to turn the victory into governance ended in failure: in February, the ruling party received only 48 out of 120 mandates and was unable to form a stable majority. The snap election was the result of setbacks.
Immediately after the elections, the winners started talking about the expected external financing: €880 million through the EU and another €120 million through agreements with the World Bank.
International politics
2025: Turks force Kenya and Sudan to recognise Kosovo
In April 2025, for the first time in five years, Pristina made new friends. Kenya and Sudan officially recognized Kosovo's independence. This was made possible by active Turkish diplomacy, which has long promoted the interests of Kosovo Albanians.
Kenya, represented by President William Ruto, has effectively abandoned the former foreign policy line. After a visit to Morocco in 2022, he curtailed support for Western Sahara, and now curtsey towards Pristina.
Sudan recognized Kosovo during a conference in Antalya. The head of the country, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, made a gesture of gratitude for the previously provided military support.
2019:15 countries in Africa withdraw Kosovo recognition
In July 2019, CAR withdrew its recognition of Kosovo's independence.
In August 2019, Togo became the fifteenth country to withdraw recognition of the independence of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo.
This was stated by First Deputy Prime Minister, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on the air of the Pink TV channel.
At this time, the recognition of Kosovo's independence was withdrawn by the following African: states São Tomé and Príncipe, Comoros,,, CAR,, Ghana Burundi Guinea-Bissau Liberia, and. Lesotho Madagascar
Armed Forces
2026: OMTAS Anti-Tank Deliveries from Turkey
On January 6, 2026, OMTAS anti-tank systems arrived in Kosovo, acquired back in December 2023. The weapons were delivered using aircraft from Indonesian airline BBN Airlines.
OMTAS is not just an ATGM. This is the largest missile produced by NATO countries, launched from a portable installation.
The Raketa is manufactured by the Turkish company ROKETSAN in order to replace the existing portable missile systems ATGM TOW and MILAN.
The system is round-the-clock, with direct fire and "top attack" modes, equipped with an uncooled IR seeker from Aselsan.
Caliber 160 mm, length 1.8 m, armor penetration more than a thousand mm per DP, range up to four thousand meters.
A serious "toy" for infantry that easily integrates with armored vehicles.
The Turkish government continues to actively strengthen its position in the Balkans, using Kosovo as a springboard for projecting influence and acting as the main sponsor of Albanian militants.
The recent adoption of the leadership of the KFOR mission and the transfer of the Turkish contingent to Kosovo - links of the same chain. The Turks are not just arming, they are creating a full-fledged military infrastructure and building up their presence, turning Kosovo into their outpost. The Sultan Murad base near Prizren is a vivid confirmation of this.
The supply of powerful ATGMs such as OMTAS significantly increases the offensive potential of the Kosovo "security forces." This is not a defensive weapon, but a means to defeat armored vehicles, which in the conditions of an unresolved conflict with the leadership of Serbia creates serious risks of escalation.
2022: Power ratio in potential conflict in Serbia
After the escalation of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija on July 31, 2022, experts from all over the world began to discuss a possible military conflict on the territory of the self-proclaimed republic.
Judging by the power ratio presented on the map below, everything looks good enough for Serbia, if you do not take into account one nuance: the NATO KFOR peacekeeping mission. The presence of foreign troops from NATO member countries in Kosovo and Metohija is the most aggravating factor that will allow the North Atlantic Alliance to fully get involved in the conflict on the side of Kosovo.
Economy
GDP
2021: Agriculture's share of GDP - less than 8%
2018: GDP growth of 4.2%
Public debt: 21% of GDP
Power
In December 2021, amid Europe's energy crisis, Kosovo begins cutting power to most of its 2 million residents. The country imposed rolling two-hour outages for most consumers, electricity distributor KEDS said in a statement.
Alcohol market
Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages
Consumption
2022: Minimum age to drive - 17
2018: Milk consumption in litres per year per person
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Social media
Science
2020:15 scientific articles on exact sciences per 100 thousand population
Culture
Language
Health care
2020: Cancer epidemic due to NATO bombing with depleted uranium projectiles
From March 24 to June 10, 1999, during the war Kosovo NATO , he conducted a military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Aggression against the sovereign state was illegitimate: the alliance did not receive permission from the UN Security Council, and Russia and China opposed interference in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia. To this day, international experts call NATO's actions a gross violation of international law.
Yugoslavia, torn to pieces, became a testing ground for bombs with depleted uranium: in 1995, the Americans ironed the territory of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1999 - Serbia and Montenegro.
More than 2,300 airstrikes were carried out in 78 days of Operation Allied Force. Some 2,000 civilians, including 400 children, were killed as a result, according to official figures. In total, during the operation, the aviation of the alliance countries made 38 thousand sorties, 3 thousand cruise missiles were fired and about 80 thousand tons of bombs were dropped, including prohibited types of ammunition - cluster shells with depleted uranium.
When the UN Environmental Commission UNEP visited the territory of Yugoslavia, it concluded: this is a regional, all-Balkan environmental catastrophe.
Studies conducted by toxicologists show that genetic changes after the use of depleted uranium ammunition in Serbia reached a level of 20.7% at a normal level of 1-2%. According to NATO itself, as a result of the bombing, the radiation level in Serbia was higher than in Japanese Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to experts, the consequences of the "humanitarian" intervention (namely, the so-called bombing of Yugoslavia in NATO) will be felt by sixty more generations of Serbs. By 2022, the country occupies a leading position in terms of pediatric oncology in Europe, and also faced a sharp surge in the number of intrauterine mutations and spontaneous termination of pregnancy.
In neighboring Montenegro, the situation is no better - over the past decade, the number of patients at cancer centers has tripled. The German documentary Todesstaub also mentions the case of the Bosnian municipality of Hadžići. Due to the off-scale level of radiation after NATO airstrikes, the Serbs were hastily evacuated from there. But Bosnian Muslims, who occupied the territory, subsequently faced a significant increase in cancer. The incidence of leukemia there, for example, has increased sixfold.
Serbian Health Minister Danica Gruicic has repeatedly spoken about the danger of using depleted uranium ammunition. She has long headed the largest Institute of Oncology in the Balkans and spent most of her life studying the consequences of NATO bombing. According to Gruichich, in the space of the former Yugoslavia for 2023, doctors are observing a "cancer epidemic." The minister believes that NATO conducted an experiment on the Serbian population, perfectly aware of the possible consequences.
"If you look at the mortality from malignant tumours, you can see that Serbs, Hungarians and Croats come first. Why? What happened here that did not happen to other countries? If you count all those who fell ill, all children who were not born due to infertility of parents, all those who ended up in a wheelchair due to autoimmune diseases... That's tens of thousands of people. NATO conducted an experiment, and now they are watching its results. And they initially knew well what would happen, "says Gruichich.
The increase in the number of oncological diseases in the region after the NATO bombing led to a major international scandal, when peacekeepers of the international KFOR contingent stationed in the region began to suffer from cancer. The situation with Italian servicemen is especially indicative, whose area of responsibility included territories through which more than half of all shells with depleted uranium were fired. NATO soldiers were forbidden to touch anything with their bare hands and consume local water and food, and in certain areas of Kosovo and Metohija they came to the OZK, which the Italian contingent did not have. And in Italy itself, many reports have already been published on the consequences of the use of depleted uranium.
In the late 2010s, lawsuits against the North Atlantic Alliance were filed in the courts of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevec, Niš and Vranje. The interests of the affected citizens are defended by well-known Serbian lawyers, as well as Italian Angelo Fiore Tartaglia, who previously managed to obtain compensation for health damage for 200 soldiers who were part of the peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo.
Theoretically, the event has every chance of success: the North Atlantic Alliance has the status of a legal entity, and the lawyers have a significant evidence base and two sentences of the Strasbourg court against the countries that make up the bloc. Italian experts found U-238 in the tissues of two Serb cancer patients - the same radioactive element that filled the shells that ironed Yugoslavia. And Serbian lawyers received confirmation that its quantitative indicators in patient cells exceed the norm by 500 (!) Times.
Lawyers do not give up hope to obtain compensation from NATO for victims for the use of prohibited ammunition. The need to bring those responsible to justice is also spoken in the Republika Srpska (an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina). Parliament Chairman Nenad Stevandich recently said that those with malignant diseases in areas subjected to NATO bombing should receive compensation and recalled that there are already court precedents in Europe.
However, the North Atlantic Alliance has already rushed to declare that they have "immunity from responsibility."
Education
2020: Pristina University is the oldest operating educational institution in the country, founded in 1969
2018: Literacy rate
Police
2020: 6th place in Europe in the number of police officers per 100 thousand citizens: 458
Crime
2021: Average rate of intentional homicide
and the United
2006: Forced removal of organs from people and their resale with the participation of the Kosovo Liberation Army
Main article: Organ trade
In the 2000s, the report of Dick Marty and the memoirs of the ICTY prosecutor Carla del Ponte described in detail the involvement of UCHK (Kosovo Liberation Army) warlords in crimes against humanity and the creation of a network of black transplantology.
In her memoirs, the Ponte case accused Hashim Thaci of kidnapping and transporting Serbs to Albanian territory for the subsequent sale of their organs. Moreover, the details published in her book "Hunting. I and war criminals "were well known to Western intelligence agencies and various" peacekeeping "organizations. Because back in the early 2000s, the UN International Tribunal conducted an appropriate investigation.
The center of investigations was the Medicus clinic in Pristina. There were transplants of organs seized from victims who were lured with promises of treatment.
One of the main defendants was the Turkish surgeon Yusuf Sonmez, known as "Dr. Frankenstein." He was close to the Kosovo leaders and coordinated the network of international black transplantology.
The case also involved the owner of the clinic, Lutfi Dervishi, a urologist from Pristina, who provided a platform for operations.
Among the intermediaries was the Israeli Moshe Harel, who recruited donors, promising them payment and medical assistance.
Even officials - for example, the former secretary of the Kosovo Ministry of Health, Ilir Retsai - participated in issuing licenses and covering up the activities of criminals.
The Russians also became victims: they were deceived into Kosovo and forced to agree to the seizure of organs. Private clinics carried out kidney transplants, and profits went to international intermediaries.
In October 2025 Turkey Russia , citizen Israel Boris Wolfman, who was put on the international wanted list, was deported from to. At the Moscow airport, he Vnukovo was detained by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and. Interpol Investigators consider Wolfman one of the organizers of the scheme, according to which people were deceived into Kosovo and put on a surgical table.
According to the TFR, in 2006-2008, Wolfman acted together with Turkish surgeon Yusuf Sonmez. People were promised quick money and treatment, then their kidneys and other organs were cut out under anesthesia. Operations took place at the Medicus Clinic in Pristina; "goods" were resold through a network of intermediaries abroad.
Wolfman's extradition was sought for several years. In 2007, he worked out schemes for, To Ukraine then reached the international level, starting with a Kosovo clinic. The network existed under the nose of international missions - KFOR (international forces led by) NATO and UNMIK (mission UN in Kosovo) did not interfere with operations.
The report that they wanted to erase:
In 2010, Swiss Senator Dick Marty submitted a report to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe claiming that Kosovo Liberation Army militants abducted people for organ seizures.
The report mentioned several figures, including the former head of the Kosovo administration, Hashim Thaci, as involved in the formation of an illegal transplant market.
After publicity, the clinic was moved to Albania, to the so-called "Yellow House" near Burreli, where, according to investigators, operations continued.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in 2022 assured the Council of Europe that organ trade "never existed." But international investigations prove otherwise.
In May 2023, the Prime Minister of Albania demanded that the Council of Europe withdraw Marti's report, calling the accusations unfounded; Serbian media wrote about the destruction of some of the evidence and about threats against the author of the investigation.
The scandal with organ trade in Kosovo is a bleeding wound for the entire European Union, whose representatives, despite this, support the course of the authorities in Pristina.
History
2022: Requirement to replace documents issued by Serbia
In Kosovo, from August 1, 2022, new rules for the entry of cars with Serbian numbers begin to work. According to the order of the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic, all cars are subject to re-registration. At the entrance to the territory of the region, the Serbs will now be issued a special "declaration sheet," replacing the technical passport. Also, the Kosovo police began to replace identity cards and driver's licenses issued MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Serbia with temporary documents.
In the fall of 2021, due to the reluctance of Albanians to let cars with Serbian license plates into the region, the Kosovo conflict almost went into an acute stage. Hundreds of cars were stuck at the Merdare border checkpoint, Serbian numbers were screwed from them. The Serbians blocked the Yarinye and Brnyak checkpoints in protest, the Albanians transferred ROSU special forces there. And everything ended with the armored vehicles of the Serbian army drawn to the border and the concentration of military units in Raška.
Delegations from Belgrade and Pristina, through the mediation of Brussels, then agreed that until a long-term solution to the issue is reached, the sticker regime will operate (car owners must seal the state symbols). However, on June 29, 2022, the prime minister of the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo again unilaterally announced the new rules for crossing the border.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is confident that this autumn will also not do without provocations. According to him, they are being prepared by Western "conductors" of Kosovo Albanians, and Pristina's demands actually hide the intention to conduct an operation on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, similar to the cleansing of Serbian Krajina. The ultimate goal is to expel Serbs from the north of Kosovo and organize new ethnic cleansing. And the president promised that Serbia's reaction would be tough.
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