Former director of the Kosovo Police, Rashit Qalaj states that the blocking of roads in the north of the country can not continue for long. He says that the barricades should be removed as soon as possible and that the Kosovo Police has all the capacities to open the road there.

Qalaj says that the longer stay of Serbs on the streets in Jarinje and Brnjak, can further strain the situation, adding that it is more than necessary that these roads be opened as soon as possible.

In an interview with KosovaPress, the former police chief also talks about the Russians who were seen among the Serbs in the north, for which he says that the Russians will always support the Serbian extremists to destabilize Kosovo.

“The intervention or not of the police, I believe should be done when the conditions are ripe. At the moment I am very sure that they are waiting for a signal from the Kosovo government, and let’s not forget that only the Kosovo Police can intervene to open the road. It is not an easy operation… but the police have the capacity. How urgent it is depends on the political developments that are taking place that we probably do not know. “But I consider that in infinity it is not possible to stay in this way, by blocking the roads”, he says.

Qalaj says that despite the fact that the situation looks calm on the outside, the situation in the north is tense.

According to him, those Serbs who are now staying for 6 days at the border crossings in Jarinje and Brnjak, are aiming to escalate the situation. While he says that it is the Kosovo Police that is being shown correctly and is not falling for the malicious provocations of the Serbs.

“I consider that beyond this facade, which seems calm, the situation is very tense, since you know that those people who are there seem to be stagnant, most of them are not even willingly forced by the structure, whether municipal or other parallel to the Serbian system and I consider that especially now the recent propaganda campaign of Serbia in relation to some cases that have occurred, as if the Kosovo Police is harassing someone on the streets in municipalities with Serb communities, I believe there is no other explanation than the attempt to presented and made the situation as tense as possible “, says Qalaj.

The former police chief says that despite Serbia’s propaganda to incite international pressure on Kosovo, there should be no withdrawal from the government to implement reciprocity on license plates.

“The relations between Serbia and Kosovo are the same, only the differences we have are revealed and Serbia’s appetite to interfere in the internal affairs of Kosovo. “I think that the government’s decision should be implemented to the end, it should absolutely not be withdrawn, despite the pressures that may be exerted by international circles, where at the same time we should go towards the fastest solution to open the roads”, he emphasizes .

Regarding the presence of Russians who were seen among Serbs in the north on Thursday, Qalaj says that such a thing is expected from those who do not want the best for Kosovo.

“Nothing new. There have been situations in the past that elements who do not want the best for Kosovo, enter Kosovo and operate against Kosovo, against its institutions, and what has happened… will happen in the future that always t ‘support Serb extremists to destabilize Kosovo. “And the good fortune is that day by day it is seen that Kosovo has consolidated institutions, which are able to face any challenge”, he says.

For 6 days now, some Serbs, in protest against the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kosovo for reciprocity on license plates, have blocked the roads at the border crossings in Jarinje and Brnjak.

During these days they have constantly provoked the Kosovo Police, while on Thursday they staged as if three of them were beaten by the Kosovo Special Unit.

The candidate for mayor of Prishtina from AKR, Gëzim Mehmeti, visited the neighborhood “Pejton”.

He unveiled to the residents of this neighborhood the 4-year program and the projects that will be implemented during this time period.

Mehmeti vowed to the citizens that he will widen the roads to nine meters, build a new preschool institution and fix the bicycle paths, reports Klankosova.tv.

The candidate presented another point of the program, the issue of the city cemetery, where he said that if not managed now, after 16 years Prishtina will have no more space and added that it has a detailed plan.

In many cases, road construction in Kosovo is a process that lasts for years and in the end does not approximate the initial project.

This finding results in a report of the National Audit Office, an office that has audited 11 road projects in Prishtina, Prizren, Ferizaj and Malisheva.

Although it was foreseen that the road Llapqevë – Mirusha Waterfalls in Malisheva, to be completed within 120 days, it turns out that it was not completed even after 1,339 days.

“Regarding the construction of the road Llapqevë – Mirusha Waterfalls, with a length of 3.1 kilometers and a width of 6 meters, the road was not completed yet, until June 2021, when this audit was conducted, although 42 months had passed since the signing of the contract, while it was foreseen to last 120 working days “, it is said in the report published on August 30.

Another road, in this case supported by the Ministry of Infrastructure, which planned to connect the villages of the Municipality of Skenderaj with those of Istog, known as the road Vojnik – Osojan, although started in 2016, has not yet been completed.

This road, 3.6 kilometers long and 6 meters wide, was initially planned to be completed in 155 days.

In this segment of the road, the works had continued until June 2017, when they were stopped indefinitely.

“The reason for this road to be realized only partially were the property problems as this road was a completely new road and it was foreseen that the whole route would pass through private properties, which were not expropriated before the signing of the contract”, the report says.

For 90 days of effective work, it was planned to complete the works on the regional road Rahovec – Suhareka with a length of 12.35 kilometers and a width of 6.8 meters, but they were not completed even after two years.

According to the Auditor’s findings, from the first day of the beginning of the works for the rehabilitation of this road, more than 1,000 calendar days or 33 months had passed and the works had not been completed yet.

The report also mentions some projects that have been delayed and the construction of which has been suspended indefinitely.

Based on the findings of this audit, it results that the construction of local and regional roads is followed by many difficulties, starting from the lack of cost-benefit analysis, inadequate planning of activities, insufficient budgeting, problems with expropriation and problems with the design of major projects as well as uncertainty regarding the reference to road construction standards.

For this reason, the construction of roads has been characterized by delays of up to three years, and some had remained unfinished even five years after their start.

Few fines for companies that violate contracts

Qendrim Arifi, senior researcher at the INPO organization, which monitors the field of public procurement, says that it is difficult to find an infrastructure project in Kosovo which has been carried out according to criteria and in an optimal time frame.

He says that the institutions, both local and central, fail from the very beginning of the tenders and the definition of the criteria.

“Dismissals do not always happen due to ignorance about a certain job or a certain project. “The omissions have their origins in the beginning of the procedure”, says Arifi for Radio Free Europe.

Airifi says that there is a great lack of qualified staff who are responsible persons in the municipalities to decide who is the winner of the contracts and who have the responsibility to monitor the implementation of projects.

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“Every year the same thing happens to us, in the summer when we work the most and when fruits and vegetables have to be brought to customers, and we can’t even get out of the house since the flood. Twelve children under the age of two live in the village.” but there are both old and sick and we are totally helpless.The water spilled and took away the roads, it can move but also very difficult only by tractors, but even these machines cannot pass through these ponds and holes without damage. to pick raspberries now we have no way to transport to customers, and the village of Vucak is the only village in Ivanjica that does not have a meter of asphalt “, said Dragan Grujović, a local, for RINA.

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The mechanization has already been sent to the field, but the situation can be further aggravated by new precipitation. Eight roads are impassable.

“The situation on the ground is not good at all, it scares us that they announced another downpour which could end what we have repaired so far. The situation in the villages of Gledjica, Vucak and Bratljevo is critical, and we have currently sent mechanization to clear the most critical points on the roads. to these villages, we try to keep the roads passable, which is our priority now. “, said Momcilo Mitrovic, president of the municipality of Ivanjica.

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Some villages were left without water

Due to the overflow of the river Moravica, there was a breakdown on the main pipeline in the town of Medjurečje, where due to the reduced inflow of water, the inhabitants of Ivanjica at a higher altitude do not have water.

PEOPLE, WHAT IS THIS WITH TIME! A walnut-sized city rumbled for ten minutes, flooded streets, even the main boulevard …

/ PHOTO / VIDEO / CATACLISM IN WESTERN SERBIA! Torrential streams overflowed in the villages, and again flooded the city streets

“The entire water supply on the territory of the city has been reduced by 50 percent. The shortages were mostly felt by households in the higher parts of our municipality. The neighboring municipalities of Cajetina, Arilje and Lucani came to our aid and sent their cisterns and the locals now use that water, but we appeal to citizens to use it rationally in order to avoid more serious restrictions, and we hope that this problem will be remedied soon. “, Mitrovic added.

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Vehicles are on average 17 years old on our roads, so it is not surprising that their owners were afraid that they would not pass the announced, stricter technical inspections.

The goal is to find younger vehicles on Serbian roads that will meet environmental standards.

Most drivers who buy used cars say that they decide to do so, of course, because of the price.
And lately, the price of used cars has been jumping.

The reason for that is the lack of new vehicles whose production has slowed down due to the lack of built-in parts coming from the Far East.

Analyst Dusan Cincar explains that the vehicles used to be delivered in a month or two, and that now the production has been moved to seven or eight months.

“Therefore, as soon as there are no new cars, the price of used cars increases throughout Europe. As a system of merged courts, the price in our country has increased by ten to twenty percent in the last year,” says Cincar.

The decline in interest in buying cars is due to the poor financial situation of citizens, which was also affected by the pandemic.

The offer on car parks is large, and the average age of vehicles is around ten years. Vehicles, used for up to five years, are also sold by dealers.

“As any change has an effect on the car market, so it can be seen on our website. When I, as an individual, sell my car somewhere, I have the idea to buy a newer car,” said Romana Ranković from the “Used Cars” website.

Dušan Cincar points out that people are eager for new cars, but they can’t afford it, so they are looking to afford what they can, which are used cars.

World trends, regardless of whether new or used cars are bought, are also changing the picture on Serbian roads.

“Customers, who used to buy smaller vehicles, are now opting more for SUV models, and we are even slowly seeing some inquiries regarding electric vehicles,” says Vuk Malović from “Grand Motors”.

Regardless of the changes in regulations, more favorable credit conditions, salary increases, as well as a larger offer of new vehicles, citizens who want to change their car still most often decide to buy four-wheelers older than ten years.

– The day was hellish, he couldn’t breathe. It was getting dark on all sides in the afternoon, although the temperature was still very high. Suddenly the wind began to carry everything in front of it, it was impossible to look at the eyes from the dust – said Milena Djokovic from Cacak.

A strong wind accompanied by a large city blew through several villages in Čačak. As the wind knocked down trees and branches, the city caused damage to agricultural crops.

– It rained intensely for over ten minutes. A city the size of a walnut, it hit Miokovci. The damage was caused to fruits and vegetables, and greenhouses were broken in some places – said Ilija Janković.

Collapse in traffic on the old road Cacak – Kraljevo

The rain followed by the wind slowed down the traffic on the old road from Čačak to Kraljevo. There was a standstill, and the column waited for about half an hour. In several subdivisions in the villages of Slatina, Slatinska Banja, Lipnica and Kukići, there was a breakdown in the electricity network and dozens of households were left without electricity.

The storm did not bypass the municipalities of Lucani and Ivanjica either. The wind, accompanied by heavy rain, however, did not cause major material damage in rural households. Rain followed by a stormy wind made

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With the arbitrariness of local and Belgrade powerful people, the safety of thousands of people in this part of Serbia is directly endangered, and the roads are significantly damaged.

Dangerous flirting

Under as yet unexplained circumstances, this “wild special transport” was escorted to the railway station in Priboj last Saturday, accompanied by the traffic police (!?!), Although ten days earlier the same traffic police of the same trailer (owned by the Belgrade company “Savatrans”) excluded from traffic and confiscated their license plates as it was established through illegality.

Then, on May 12, at the control measurement, it was determined that the trailers were overloaded, ie that they had significantly more than the legally maximum allowed 16 tons per axle, thus significantly damaging the roads.

None of this, however, bothered the arrogant powerful people to return the plates to the faulty trailers completely illegally last Saturday and order the local traffic police to escort the “transport”!?! Why did they do this? Clearly, the only answer may be cash. Dirty cash that someone put in their pocket to allow illegal “special transport”.

To make matters worse, “Roads of Serbia” revoked the permit for the transport of transformers, which was previously issued to the company “Savatrans”. So, not only were the dangerous transformers transported by faulty trailers that were excluded from traffic, but it was also done without the permission of “Roads of Serbia”!?!

And when we add to all that the fact that the traffic police immediately after the “wild transport” on Saturday, May 22, at the railway station in Priboj, removed the registrations from the trailers again, it is clear that this was actually a pirate operation that was done just to someone fat charged!

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Arrogant powerful people

The arbitrariness of local and Belgrade powerful people directly endangered the safety of thousands of people in this part of Serbia, and the roads were significantly damaged.

Strictly forbidden

The regulations of the European Union, where it is strictly forbidden to transport current transformers without special “transformer box” trailers, also show how dangerous this way of transporting cargo is for people and the environment.

– Such transport is dangerous and hugely unsafe. During it, a rollover can occur, which can cause serious damage, but also human casualties. A special factory construction, called a “transformer box”, is used to transport transformers to the EU. The transformer was then housed in that special box, secured on all four sides and the possibility of breakdown and overturning was minimized. It is not clear which of the powerful and why he put so much pressure to carry out that “wild transport” in Priboj. Something like this must never happen again, because it will be too late when an accident happens and someone dies – says one of our interlocutors.

Arsov avoids our questions

Yesterday, the Chief of the Traffic Police Administration, Nebojsa Arsov, persistently avoided our journalists and questions about “wild special transport” in the vicinity of Priboj.

We asked the mayor of Arsovo why the Traffic Police first confiscated the plates and wrote the reports with the trailers of the company “Savatrans”, and then illegally returned them and sent the risky cargo to the final destination, only to remove the plates again!?!

We were interested, among other things, in why they allowed this illegal transport to damage the state budget on several grounds, in the amount of several millions.

Unfortunately, all our questions remained unanswered, because Nebojsa Arsov only read the message and did not answer a word until the conclusion of this issue.

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The Municipality of Prishtina has organized an activity through which it has started cleaning the streets. For this he has contracted 6 companies.

This activity started today at 10:00 in the morning and will continue after the end of the citizens’ movement schedule, at 22:30, so that there are no traffic obstacles.

The maintenance manager of the city, Bujar Abazi told KosovaPress, that the Municipality of Prishtina has organized this activity due to numerous requests from citizens.

Abazi: There have been numerous requests for street cleaning

“The municipality has organized this type of activity due to numerous requests and the need to go out to clean the roads due to the winter season which is characterized by snow and rain and low temperatures. This type of activity in this season has been slightly postponed “Because of these conditions we mentioned. But today this activity has been done and I will continue ie in the late hours after the movement hours in order to have fewer traffic obstacles and in order to do the job well,” he said

The maintenance manager of the capital, Bujar Abazi said that in order to carry out these cleanings in all the streets of the capital, the Municipality of Prishtina has contracted 6 companies for the maintenance of the city.

Abazi: The Municipality of Prishtina has contracted 6 companies for the maintenance of the capital

“The municipality of Prishtina has contracted 6 companies for the maintenance of the city, each company in its respective weather will continue to clean the streets in 6 parts of the city”, he said.

According to him, street cleaning will take place throughout the summer season.

After Tirana-Morina (5 € crossing), the Rama Government has foreseen 8 more roads to return with payment. The road taxation strategy drafted by the EBRD recommends that the tariff that citizens have to pay varies from 0.5 euro cents to 3.5 euro cents per kilometer, emphasizes Faktor.al.

Albanians will also pay for 8 highways and other national roads. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development gives these recommendations based on a study.

For the road Tirana – Durres, with a length of 34 kilometers, the tariff can be from 23 to 166 new lek.

Tirana – Elbasan with a length of 27 kilometers will be paid from 18.9 to 132 ALL

Arbri road, although it is not known when it can be completed, will be taxed from 52 lek to 367 lek for 75 kilometers of its length.

Levan – Vlora, with a length of 24 kilometers will be taxed from 16.9 lek to 118 lek.

In Durrës – Fier, with a length of 68 kilometers, the payment will be from 47.7 lekë minimum to 334 lekë maximum.

Levan – Tepelena with a length of 47 kilometers will cost 32 lek or 230 lek.

Elbasan – Kapshtica, the fee will be 29 to 203 ALL.

Tirana – Hani i Hotit is thought to be taxed 31 or 220 lek.

If we refer to the precedent of the Nation Road, the tariffs approved by the government are expected to be the maximum.

From a simple calculation, to travel from Tirana to Vlora, each driver will pay 618 new lek for 126 kilometers of taxable highway./shekulli

This morning, the roads around the stadium “Fadil Vokrri” in Prishtina are blocked for traffic, because the match Kosovo – Sweden will be played.

According to the announcement of the Kosovo Police, this will be done to enable traffic within normal limits, thus setting up checkpoints in order to stop and instruct citizens.

“Blockages and restrictions in the area around the Stadium will be made, based on the decision issued by the Municipality of Prishtina, respectively the Directorate for Public Services. The plan in question will start to be implemented tomorrow from 07:00, until the end of the match, where the traffic will be stopped and the parking of all vehicles on the streets: ‘Enver Zymberi’ and ‘Rinia’ will be stopped “, it is said, among others in the Police notice.

On this occasion, the police appealed to the citizens to avoid the movement of cars towards the stadium.