Like so many Balkan leaders, the Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, who has died aged 61 of lung cancer, had early experience of mortality. He was barely six weeks old when his father and grandfather ...

An honor guard stands by the casket of Ibrahim Rugova on 26 January (epa) Like most towering political figures, the late President Ibrahim Rugova attracted his share of controversy. Kosovar Albanians ...

On the 20th anniversary of the death of Kosovo’s first president, friends and former colleagues recall the quiet booklover who became a symbol of a free and democratic Kosovo. This post is also ...

We received word this morning that Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova has died. Mr. Rugova had been suffering from lung cancer. He was 61 years old. Associated Press reporter, Tina Kraja joins us from ...

PRISTINA, Serbia, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Kosovan President Ibrahim Rugova died Saturday of lung cancer at his home in Pristina. Martti Ahtisaari, the U.N. Special Envoy dealing with Kosovo, said talks on ...

DURING the worst years of the Bosnian war a very strange, almost Ruritanian drama played itself out in another part of the dying Yugoslavia. In 1992 Ibrahim Rugova was elected president of Kosovo.

The United Nations - still administering Kosovo - is due to decide in September 2005 whether the province can begin final status talks. Mr Rugova's long-held vision of a new Balkan future faces a ...

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The President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, died on 21 January 2006, after losing a battle with lung cancer. The once chain-smoking, haggard and dishevelled man with his trademark scarf around his neck, ...

Ibrahim Rugova, who died in Pristina on Saturday aged 61, was the pacifist leader of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians in their struggle for independence from Serbia; he had been President of Kosovo since ...