Russia Warns Kosovo Independence Comes With High Costs

Russia has promised to block Kosovo's entry to the United Nations and other international political institutions if the country goes ahead with plans to declare independence from Serbia.

Posted Jan 18, 2008 08:13 AM PST
Category: RUSSIA

The West and NATO don't really care about the geopolitcal fallout from Kosovo declaring their independence from Serbia: what they want is getting their hands around that vast mineral wealth to be found in Kosovo. (MR)

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