#BOSNIAANDHERZEGOVINA: Serbs Set Up Separate Legal System

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The parliament of Republika Srpska, one of the two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina, voted on Feb. 10 to set up an independent judicial system outside of the Bosnia and Herzegovina legal system, with 45 votes in favor out of 63 votes cast in the 83-seat parliament.

Lawmakers on December 10 voted 49-3 to start a procedure for Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb-dominated entity to withdraw from the Bosnian Army, security services, tax system, and judiciary.

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#BOSNIA: Serb Parliament Pursues Path Towards Secession

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The Bosnian Serb parliament in Bonia-Herzegovina has adopted a set of steps that would strengthen a secessionist bid to withdraw from state-level institutions despite warnings from the West.

Lawmakers on December 10 voted 49-3 on starting a procedure for Bosnia-Herzegovina's Serb-dominated entity to withdraw from the Bosnian Army, security services, tax system, and judiciary.

They also voted on a declaration that calls for the drafting of a new constitution for the entity, Republika Srpska, and states that "all laws imposed" by the international high representative for Bosnia are "unconstitutional."

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#MONTENEGRO: New Law Would Force Churches To Prove Ownership Of Pre-World War One Properties

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The Montenegrin parliament passed the controversial Freedom of Religious Law amid chaotic scenes on Friday, despite fierce objections from the Serbian Orthodox Church, its supporters and pro-Serbian opposition parties.

Under the law, religious communities will have to provide clear evidence of their Pre-World War I ownership in order to retain their properties, a provision that the Serbian Church says is designed to allow the government to strip it of its holdings, since surviving documentation from that era is nearly non-existent.

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#BOSNIA: Regional Serb Parliament Votes Against Selling Iron Ore Mine To Israeli Company

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The Bosnian Serb parliament has voted against the sale of a government stake in an iron ore mine to the Israeli Investment Group after ArcelorMittal warned it would take legal action if it went ahead. The government plan to sell the Ljubija mine to little-known IIG, which has no mining record, instead of to the world's largest steel producer has polarized Bosnian Serb politicians and triggered protests by miners fearing job losses.

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#KOSOVO: 1000s Riot Against Gov't Deal Establishing Self-Gov't For Serbs Remaining After '99 War

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Thousands of anti-government demonstrators took to the streets in Kosovo's capital this weekend, with police firing tear gas as some protesters threw Molotov cocktails and set fire to a building. Protesters oppose deals reached by the government with Serbia - the country from which Kosovo seceded in 2008, Protesters urged the government to resign over a deal to set up an association of Serb-run municipalities for Kosovo's Serb minority.

#KOSOVO: Oppo. Leader Directs Riots In Streets Opposing Minority Rights For Ethnic Serbs

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Police are seeking to  arrest the nation's opposition party leader after he led rioting in the capitol, Pristina. Albin Kurti has used pepper spray in parliament and was sought after being seen leading the protests against granting ethic Serbs more autonomy in this majority Albanian nation, which broke away from Serbia in 1999.

KOSOVO: Defiant Serbs Hold Referendum on Kosovo Rule