Thursday, May 17th
Last update:17-May-2012 09:29
President’s Family Benefits from Eurovision Hall 
OCCRP Journalists Win Serbia’s Best Investigative Story of the Year 
Azerbaijan's President Awarded Family Stake in Gold Fields 
Azerbaijan Fails to Investigate Harassment of OCCRP Reporter 
Balkan Countries Fail in Anti-Corruption Efforts 
The raid, however, sparked a firefight between black-clad ethnic Albanian gunmen and the Macedonian police, who used both ground forces and police helicopters to subdue the group in the area, the same region that saw a near-civil war between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian security forces in 2001. Witnesses told the Financial Times that four houses were burning and that a mosque had been damaged.
Both sides of the Kosovo-Macedonia border have seen tensions increase in recent weeks as reports of masked men setting up checkpoints have filtered out of the region. Kosovo public television last month interviewed members of the self-styled Albanian National Army about their vow to protect their ethnic Albanian brethren from possible Serbian attacks in the province. Weighing heavily on the region is the fate of Kosovo, a Serbian province of some 2 million people that has been under UN administration since 1999.
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