From the BIRN archives: After the death of Kosovo Albanian political leader Ibrahim Rugova in 2006, Marcus Tanner examined how his “raffish, Bohemian” image concealed a canny operator with a keen ...
“These were circumstances that demanded a voice,” Ismaili said. The summer of 1968 was also when Ismaili first met Ibrahim Rugova – the man who years later would become the first president of Kosovo, ...