Serbia

Worried about the potential for tensions between Serbia and Kosovo to escalate, more than 20,000 Kosovo Serbs have asked for Russian citizenship, Serbian media reported on November 15. The recent move marks an increasing discontent among Kosovo's ethnic Serbs, who fear being abandoned by Belgrade, which is being pressured by the EU to move towards a normalisation of relations with Pristina. Although Russia is a traditional ally of Serbia, we believe it unlikely that Moscow will answer positively to Serb requests because it would put it in confrontation with NATO and with Belgrade which could see it as interference in

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