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Austrian author Peter Handke, right, receives the Order of the Karadjordje's Star from Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, May 9, 2021. Serbia has decorated Austrian Nobel literature laureate Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serb war crimes during the 1990s' wars in the Balkans. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia gives award to 2019 Nobel Literature winner Handke

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Lawyer Nikola Kovacevic, who represented 17 refugees, talkx to Hamid Ahmadi from Germany through an interpreter, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees in a forest. Groups of refugees and economic migrants trying to reach Western Europe regularly give accounts of police forcibly pushing them back across borders in the Balkans. Pushbacks are illegal, and authorities routinely deny that their agencies carry out such collective expulsions, which are difficult to prove and mostly go unpunished. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Refugees win rare victory in landmark Serbia pushback ruling

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Russia tries to ban Kosovo flag at UN — unsuccessfully

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

People hold banners during a protest in front of the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Environmental activists are protesting against worsening environmental situation in Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Thousands rally in Serbia to protect the environment

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Serbia's Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, left, and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo challenge for the ball during the World Cup 2022 group A qualifying soccer match between Serbia and Portugal at the Rajko Mitic stadium in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Ronaldo rages after no goal and no VAR in 2-2 draw at Serbia

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People wait in line to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Thousands of vaccine-seekers from Serbia's neighboring states have flocked to Belgrade after Serbian authorities offered free coronavirus jabs for foreigners if they show up over the weekend. Many arriving with their entire families, long lines of Bosnians, Montenegrins, North Macedonians and even Albanians formed Saturday in front of the main vaccination center in the Serbian capital. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Foreigners flock to Serbia to get coronavirus vaccine shots

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EU envoy tells Serbia, Kosovo dialogue key for entry talks

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Workers unload boxes of the Astra Zeneca vaccine at the Belgrade Airport, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. 150,000 doses of Astra Zeneca vaccines were delivered to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Alarm grows in Serbia over virus surge; lockdown urged

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Albin Kurti leader of Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) reacts during an interview with The Associated Press in capital Pristina, Kosovo on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo's main opposition Self-Determination Movement party or Vetevendosje! has won a clear victory in an early election held amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)

EU envoy urges Kosovo to resume talks with Serbia

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, a worker holds a box of the Astra-Zeneca vaccines at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2. 2021. Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic flew to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to deliver the Astra-Zeneca vaccines to the authorities there. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute

By ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., with impeachment manager Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., speaks to members of the media during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, after the U.S. Senate voted not guilty, to acquit former President Donald Trump of inciting riot at U.S. Capitol, ending impeachment trial, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

CROSSTALK: Biden presidency makes Balkanites of us all

By Julia Gorin

A medical worker administers a shot of COVID-19 vaccine to a man in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Serbia, a country of 7 million, has so far vaccinated some 1 million people, mainly with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine and Russian Sputnik V, and to a lesser extent with the Pfizer jab. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Bosnian Serb health workers get COVID-19 jabs in Serbia

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A man wearing a face mask reads: ''Scum!'' to protect against coronavirus attends during protest in front of the government building in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. Hundreds gathered outside the government headquarters to honor dozens of medical staff who died since the start of the outbreak. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbian capital Belgrade sees clubbing flouting virus rules

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Supporters of the left-wing Self-Determination Movement party react in Pristina, the capitol of Kosovo, on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in a parliamentary election Sunday to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo’s leftist opposition party gains landslide win

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and North Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, right, hold a news conference during a handover of COVID-19 vaccines, at the border crossing Tabanovce, between North Macedonia and Serbia, on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Serbia which has launched a successful vaccination campaign has donated some 8,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 shots to North Macedonia which is yet to deliver its first shots. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Serbia donates Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to North Macedonia

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Supporter of VETEVENDOSJE (Self-Determination) political party holds a slogan reading in Albanian &quot; All and Straight&quot; during the closing electoral rally in capital Pristina on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Kosovo holds an early general election upcoming Sunday and the next government will face challenges including pandemic economic recovery, reducing unemployment and fighting organized crime.(AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Leftist opposition party heads to victory in Kosovo election

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, people and health workers are pictured in front of the entrance of the University Clinic complex in Skopje, North Macedonia. When thousands of people across the European Union simultaneously began rolling up their sleeves last month to get a coronavirus vaccination shot, one corner of the continent was left behind, feeling isolated and abandoned: the Balkans. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Vaccine delay in North Macedonia stirs political tension

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

A medical worker wearing protective gear waits for people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. China is ready to consider &quot;vaccine cooperation&quot; with Central and Eastern European countries, President Xi Jinping said Tuesday in a meeting held by video link with European leaders. Serbia has received 1 million doses of a Chinese-developed coronavirus vaccine and Hungarian and Chinese vaccine developers are cooperating. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia leader says nation among top in Europe in vaccination

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A medical worker wearing protective gear gestures as people wait to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Serbia were the first European country to receive the Chinese Sinopharm's vaccine for mass inoculation programmes. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Leader says Serbia is proud to give citizens Chinese vaccine

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 A Romanian gendarme leaves after getting a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Across the Balkans and the rest of the nations in the southeastern corner of Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process. In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, skeptics have ranged from former presidents to top athletes and doctors. Nations that once routinely went through mass inoculations under Communist leaders are deeply split over whether to take the vaccines at all. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus efforts

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and JOVANA GEC - Associated Press