Violence involving ethnic Albanians in Macedonia has sparked concerns that tensions over the unresolved status of Kosovo are beginning to bubble over. The most recent incident came on September 10 when a police commander and a gunman were killed in a clash in an ethnic Albanian village near Macedonia's border with Kosovo.

Authorities in Montenegro have arrested a former Serbian government official and police commander wanted in The Hague for murder and persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

Even when Tony Blair leaves office, his legacy and his name will stay alive in one of the most corners of Kosovo. Crediting Blair with helping to stop the brutal Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians, the Dajaku family named their youngest son born shortly following the war, after him.

The war crimes trial of former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski, who is accused over an attack on ethnic Albanians in 2001, started today in The Hague. RFE/RL Macedonia analyst Nakev Ljupco says this case is a landmark for the UN tribunal, which was established to prosecute genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed in the ex-Yugoslav territory.