Presevo

Position of national minorities

13.December 2025 Milica Srejić

Albanians in the south of Serbia: Deletion from residential addresses, non-recognition of diplomas and hate speech

Albanians in Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa continue to face the passivation of addresses and violations of basic human rights. What is their position? And what is their attitude towards the state of Serbia?

Bujanovac

28.November 2024 B. B.

Shaip Kamberi called on the Albanians in the south of Serbia to raise the Albanian flags

By denying the right to use the national symbol, Serbia denies our identity. They love us only without identity. They love us without political demands, as an object and not a subject of politics, according to Šaip Kamberi, a member of the Serbian Parliament

South of Serbia

01.November 2024 IN THE

Government of Kosovo: Another four million euros for Albanians in Bujanovac, Preševo and Medveđa

Financial assistance will be invested in education, culture, sports, as well as in the important sectors of agriculture and animal husbandry

Roads of Serbia

09.July 2024 SZ

The toll gets more expensive, the further south, the more expensive it is

Driving on the highways in Serbia will be about 10 percent more expensive from Wednesday, July 10, so citizens will pay about 100 dinars more for the toll from Niš to Belgrade. For those who live further south, it will be more expensive, and the most expensive will be the trip from Preševo to the capital - 1.890 dinars.

24.April 2024. Maja Popovic

Little Preševo, many parties: Who is "Vučić" and who is "Kurti"

The former president of the municipality of Preševo was not overthrown by Kurti or Vučić, but he himself lost his majority in the local parliament, journalist from Preševo Belgzim Kamberi tells "Vreme" and adds that the topic of the next local elections will probably be whether people close to Aljbina Kuti will come to the power

Early elections

22.April 2024. IM / Phonet / KoSSev

The Government of Serbia introduced a temporary state of emergency in the Municipality of Preševo

The local government has not had a majority since July last year, and not a single session of the Municipal Assembly was held for nine months

Education

11.September 2023 S.Ć.

High school students of the Albanian minority in Serbia learn from the "Republic of Kosovo" textbook

Serbia provided textbooks in Albanian for elementary school students in Bujanovac, Medveđa and Preševo, but not for high school students. They purchase textbooks in Kosovo. The government in Pristina allocated 250.000 euros for textbooks for high school students in Bujanovac and Presevo.

Culture

14.August 2023 BG

Court: One Albanian film is banned, the other is allowed conditionally

Gani Veseli's film "Infidel" is banned, while the showing of the film "Silence Kills" will be allowed if the "Republic of Kosovo" logo is removed from the credits.

Census

01.November 2022 DP

No Albanian boycott: Twice as many people in Preševo

The preliminary results of the recently completed census show that 59.024 people live in the Municipality of Preševo, and 54.529 in Bujanovac. These numbers are significantly higher even than those from the 2002 census, which the Albanians did not boycott. At that time, Preševo had 34.904 and Bujanovac had 43.302 inhabitants. Almost 90 percent of Albanians lived in Preševo, while in Bujanovac they made up about 55 percent of the population.

In the new issue

29.September 2022 Nikola Lazic

Population census in the south of Serbia: General mobilization

As never before, the activists of the parties that gather Albanians, led by their leaders, went out into the field, went door to door, held rallies in local offices and cooperative homes and shared announcements on social networks in order to explain to the population the national importance of participating in of the census organized in Serbia from October 1 to 30. And what, in fact, is the main goal, MP Shaip Kamberi summed it up in one sentence: "Let's prove that the Preševo Valley is Albanian"