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Can We Stay or Must We Go?
Aid organizations and Pristina urge Serbs to come back to Kosovo, but there are reasons beyond politics that they won’t – or can’t.
PRISTINA | Slavica Cankovic can count the number of Serb children in the capital of Kosovo on two hands – almost.
“Our nurse here lives in Pristina and has four children,” Cankovic says, pointing to the woman on her right in the homey waiting room of the clinic where she works as a doctor. “Vera isn’t here right now, but she’s got two children, and a woman called Zivka has a grandchild with her here in Pristina, as well.”
The Two Paths from a Chechen Refugee Camp
Some young people in Chechnya live in prosperity, provided they sing the praises of Putin and Kadyrov. For others, life can be very difficult. From Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso.
Only a few years ago, today’s young Chechens were all in the same boat, or rather the same refugee camp. Literally and figuratively. Crowded into tents and trains, stranded in the refugee camps of Chechnya’s neighboring republics, the young were united in sympathy and hatred. Just teenagers, they prayed for Chechen rebels and dreamed of growing up as quickly as possible to join them and take revenge on the Russians. The hatred for Russia united them more than anything else.
