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...withdraw troops from Kosovo and cede control to the U.N., provided the province legally remained part of Serbia. But that condition has proved unacceptable to ethnic Albanians, who make up 90% of Kosovo's population. A subsequent U.N. plan to grant Kosovo full but "supervised" independence foundered on Russian threats of a veto in the U.N. Security Council. So last summer, the U.S., Russia and the European Union decided to give the two sides until December to make their own deal on Kosovo's status. But after a late September parley in New York produced few results, even the idea...
...Serb officials say war is not an option, but Belgrade could suspend diplomatic relations with the U.S. and other countries that recognize Kosovo. Losing Kosovo, a vital locus of Serbian national feeling, may also radicalize Serbian politics and push moderate nationalists like Kostunica away from the E.U. and into Russian hands. "Serbia should not seek the company of those who support tearing a piece of our territory away," Leon Kojen, a former chief Serbian negotiator, told the Belgrade daily Politika. Russia's intransigence, meanwhile, is part of a general hardening of Moscow's stance on a range of issues affecting...
...situation puts paid to long-cherished hopes that Kosovo could be guided toward independence and widely heralded as a new nation. Instead, U.S. backing for Kosovo's independence and Russian backing for Serbian unity is encouraging both sides to dig in their heels. This part of Europe has already, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, produced more than its share of history. In Kosovo, it appears doomed to keep doing...
...home, depends on Moscow's ability to project power, using natural gas and oil as its weapons. If that arsenal fails him because of worldwide price drops, it won't matter what his title is after the election. Putin could still join Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev as Russian leaders remembered most for the opportunities they wasted...
...Though we had been stewards, in a sense, of these bells for seven decades, we realized we had no idea how to ring them properly,” Eck said. “In Russia, they were and are a national treasure.” A Russian Business School student, Konstantin V. Kuzovkov, also spoke at the event. He recalled walking near the Danilov Monastery in 2005 and seeing a poster of Baker Library just as he was finishing up his application to the school. “The whole project itself is a great example of modern leadership...