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Post by radovic on Nov 28, 2007 11:56:00 GMT -5
Serbian town makes Putin "honorary citizen" 28 November 2007 | 12:56 | Source: Beta RAŠKA -- The municipality of Raška has named Russian President Vladimir Putin its honorary citizen.
Popular in south-western Serbia: Vladimir Putin (Beta)
The honor was given yesterday by Municipal President Bojan Milovanoviæ to Russian embassy official Oleg Ziza, during a local celebration.
“I am awarding the right person, the president of the great, friendly Russia, from the citizens of the small town of Raška,“ Milovanoviæ said.
The Russian diplomat stated that this is a hard time for Serbia because of the efforts to pull apart its territory.”
“All ties between Serbia and Russia are therefore important, and Russia will help to maintain these ties,” Ziza said.
The local assembly decided last week to give the honor to Putin.
The proposal was adopted by the ruling coalition of the south-western municipality, made up of the Serb Radical Party (SRS), Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).
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Post by superman on Nov 28, 2007 12:20:34 GMT -5
Yes, I know you have good ties with Russia, it's understandable, but don't you forget what Russia took territories from Romania, and guess what even from slavic countries like Ukraine or Poland. If Serbia would be neighbour with Russia, Serbia wouldn't love so much the bear...
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Post by radovic on Nov 28, 2007 15:04:46 GMT -5
Yes, I know you have good ties with Russia, it's understandable, but don't you forget what Russia took territories from Romania, and guess what even from slavic countries like Ukraine or Poland. If Serbia would be neighbour with Russia, Serbia wouldn't love so much the bear... Russia can hardly be viewed as an ally. Russia cares only about it's intererests and I'm pretty sure if not supporting serba was in her interest ehn she would side with NATO. i mean look at Yeltsin and what he did during the bombing, at the time not helping Serbia was advantageous to him and so he did nothing to help us.
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Post by donnie on Nov 28, 2007 15:56:48 GMT -5
That is what an alliance is.
States do not forge alliances because they love each other, but rather because interests coincide. Exceptions may exist perhaps in relations between states who's citizens are linguistically/ethnically the same, say Southern Cyprus & Greece. Otherwise, it is very much because of interests. Russia was always interested in wielding influence in the Balkans, which is a peninsula of much strategical importance, functioning as a gateway between two worlds. As such, Russia always sought to support Orthodox Slavs in the Balkans due to linguistic kinship and religion.
Russia's suddenly consolidated position in regards to Kosova will not be without cost for your part. In this conflict of ours, both of us are totally dependant on our respective allies.
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Post by superman on Nov 28, 2007 16:07:28 GMT -5
At least Romania is now on your side.
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Post by Novi Pazar on Nov 28, 2007 20:48:12 GMT -5
"In this conflict of ours, both of us are totally dependant on our respective allies."
Completely agree, both of our allies have an interest in the region, they are the ones at the end who will decide the outcome.
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