Pro-Serbia rally staged in Moscow

Over 1000 protestors, mainly young people, gathered in Moscow for a rally of support for Serbia, calling on Russia to send its army to Kosovo to protect the Serbs. Yesterday's meeting, organized by Russian national-patriotic groups and movements, began with a “Serbian march” and a sermon led by the elder of the Church of Nikola on Bersenyevski, Abbot Kiril. Pro-Serbia rally staged in Moscow Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and Serb Radical Party (SRS) representatives also addressed the protestors. The participants, who also included representatives of the Serb community in Moscow, carried Serbian flags and those of the organizers, the Euroasian Youth Union, Orthodox icons and a flag with Milesevski’s White Angel, as well as t-shirts and banners carrying messages such as “Kosovo is Serbia”, “One soul—one people”, and “Russia, Help Serbia”. The marchers chanted “Glory to Serbia, Shame on America”, “Glory to Russia, Glory to Serbia”, “Russian Army to Kosovo” and “Yankee Go Home”. Euroasian Movement leader Aleksandr Dugin told the crowd in front of the Ukraina Hotel opposite the Russian government building that the Serbs were “Russia’s conscience,” and that Kosovo had been handed to “the Albanian mafia,” and that a “criminal clique is calling itself a protector of democracy.” “Our brothers have stayed there and are living there as if in a concentration camp,” said Dugin, adding that the Kosovo Serbs, with their churches and monasteries, were hostages of a new world order that the U.S. wished to create. Kosovo was, the Eurasian Movement leader said, closer to Russia than many thought, given that Ukraine was being prised from Russia and into NATO according to the same model and intentions as used for Croatia. "Ukraine is our Kosovo," he proclaimed. He said that the Russian authorities had taken the right course, and that they supported their Serbian friends, though he called on the government to send the Russian Army to Kosovo to protect the Serbs, to avert a possible genocide. Several hundred protestors joined Dugin in chanting “Russian Army to Kosovo!” SRS and SPS representatives General Bozidar Delic and Dusan Jelicic attended the rally, saying that Serbia would never give up Kosovo.

Pro-Serbia rally staged in Moscow

Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and Serb Radical Party (SRS) representatives also addressed the protestors.

The participants, who also included representatives of the Serb community in Moscow, carried Serbian flags and those of the organizers, the Euroasian Youth Union, Orthodox icons and a flag with Mileševski’s White Angel, as well as t-shirts and banners carrying messages such as “Kosovo is Serbia”, “One soul—one people”, and “Russia, Help Serbia”.

The marchers chanted “Glory to Serbia, Shame on America”, “Glory to Russia, Glory to Serbia”, “Russian Army to Kosovo” and “Yankee Go Home”.

Euroasian Movement leader Aleksandr Dugin told the crowd in front of the Ukraina Hotel opposite the Russian government building that the Serbs were “Russia’s conscience,” and that Kosovo had been handed to “the Albanian mafia,” and that a “criminal clique is calling itself a protector of democracy.”

“Our brothers have stayed there and are living there as if in a concentration camp,” said Dugin, adding that the Kosovo Serbs, with their churches and monasteries, were hostages of a new world order that the U.S. wished to create.

Kosovo was, the Eurasian Movement leader said, closer to Russia than many thought, given that Ukraine was being prised from Russia and into NATO according to the same model and intentions as used for Croatia. "Ukraine is our Kosovo," he proclaimed.

He said that the Russian authorities had taken the right course, and that they supported their Serbian friends, though he called on the government to send the Russian Army to Kosovo to protect the Serbs, to avert a possible genocide.

Several hundred protestors joined Dugin in chanting “Russian Army to Kosovo!”

SRS and SPS representatives General Božidar Delić and Dušan Jeličić attended the rally, saying that Serbia would never give up Kosovo.