Ibrahim Rugova Ibrahim Rugova, president of Kosovo, died on January 21st, aged 61. Jan 26th 2006 | Share. EPA. DURING the worst years of the Bosnian war a very strange, almost Ruritanian drama ...

President Ibrahim Rugova is mourned in Kosovo by ethnic Albanians he led and by European and U.S. officials who hailed him as a voice of moderation in the turbulent Balkans. Talks on the future of ...

Obituary: Ibrahim Rugova 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 ...

Ibrahim Rugova President of Kosovo who embodied his people's struggle for independence from Serbia. Monday 23 January 2006 01:00 GMT. Comments. Your support helps us to tell the story.

More on the death of Ibrahim Rugova, a leader in the long struggle by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to escape Serbian dominance. Rugova was 61 and suffered from lung cancer.

IBRAHIM RUGOVA visited RFE/RL headquarters in Prague on December 18, 1998, in order to highlight the oppression of Albanian-language media in Kosovo by the government of then Yugoslav President ...

26 January 2006 -- Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian President, Ibrahim Rugova, was buried before thousands of mourners in Pristina today. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

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 ...

Rugova, Kosovo's President, Dies of Cancer Ibrahim Rugova, the president of Kosovo, dies of lung cancer at 61. He was long identified with ethnic Albanians' struggle for independence from Serbia.

Ibrahim Rugova, the winner of the Kosovo elections, has made a spectacular political comeback just 18 months after his eclipse by the military commanders of the anti-Serbian uprising. His party ...