Putin in Kosovo spar with French reporter

[Crvena zvezda]

Putin in Kosovo spar with French reporter1 June 2008 | 11:56 | Source: Tanjug PARIS -- Vladimir Putin has criticized the daily Le Monde for referring to South Ossetia and Abkhazia as separatist regions, while not using the same phrase for Kosovo.

"You said separatist? Why didn't you use this word about Kosovo?" the Russian prime minister wondered in an interview for the Paris daily, published on Saturday.

"You cannot answer, and this is because you do not have an answer," Putin continued.

The journalist then remarked that "in Abkhazia, it was the Georgians who had been ethnically cleansed, while in Kosovo, the situation was quite the opposite since it was the Albanians that were exposed to this practice".

But Putin said that the two things were "not at all opposite".

"Thousands of Serbs can't return to Kosovo. Hundreds of thousands," he said.

"Where did you see refugees coming back to Kosovo," he continued. "Don't tell me stories, I know what is really going on there."

Itar-Tass news agency also reported that Putin said some 55,000 Georgians had returned to the Galian Region of Abkhazia.

The new Russian prime minister is in France on a two-day visit for meetings with the country's president and prime minister, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Fillon.

[Carnyx]

Who was this French reporter?

[Crvena zvezda]

^ The article doesn't say.

[Kernunnos]

Putin . the only real leader of the West and East.

the only real european man who is at the helm of a government.

[Kan Yuvigi Asparukh]

Yeah, Hail, Putin the Great. He saved Kosovo just like Yeltsin saved Serbia from the bombs in 1999. His retorics were the same: " We will never let NATO attack Yugoslavia..." We all know what happened later.The worst is that there are a lot of people, considering Putin as a messiah, who will bring justice and save the Slavism and Orthodoxality. Yeah, Russia didn't recognise Kosovo but that's all. With, or without recognition, de facto, it's under Albanian rule. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt that this is something more than words, again.
I hope Putin will disprove me with his actions.

[Musaka]

Originally Posted by Kan Yuvigi Asparukh

I hope Putin will disprove me with his actions.

me too

[Crvena zvezda]

Originally Posted by Kan Yuvigi Asparukh

Yeah, Hail, Putin the Great. He saved Kosovo just like Yeltsin saved Serbia from the bombs in 1999. His retorics were the same: " We will never let NATO attack Yugoslavia..." We all know what happened later.The worst is that there are a lot of people, considering Putin as a messiah, who will bring justice and save the Slavism and Orthodoxality. Yeah, Russia didn't recognise Kosovo but that's all. With, or without recognition, de facto, it's under Albanian rule. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt that this is something more than words, again.
I hope Putin will disprove me with his actions.

Any action Putin partakes in, would depend on the Serbian government. Our president is unlikely to do anything that would allow this as he is pro-west and was trained by the U.S.'s NED. Even if an anti-EU government is formed, the simple fact is the rules of our constitution severely restrict what they can do.