Moscow's Three Steps to Prevent Kosovo's Surrender - Victor Kolbanovsky

The events and recent political statements of Belgrade suggest that after the parliamentary elections in Serbia on 26 April this year, at which A. Vucic will try to consolidate his position, his forces will be aimed at international recognition of Kosovo by signing a new agreement with the authorities of the self-proclaimed Pristina. In this direction Vucic has been actively moving for many years together with his Kosovo partner H. Tachi. President Trump needs foreign policy success on Kosovo during the upcoming US election campaign. And so the head of the White House instructed his trusted special representative Richard Grenell to lead the operation on accelerated Kosovo recognition. For Russia, such a deal risks another expansion of NATO in the Balkans. Serbia and then Bosnia and Herzegovina will be drawn into the Western military alliance following Kosovo. But the much more negative consequence will be moral and political damage in the form of the loss of historical confidence in Russia by the Serbian people. As a result, there could be an irreparable deterioration of Russian-Serbian relations and a loss of geopolitical influence by Russia in the Balkans. This is clearly the basis for a strategic calculation of the world's players, who are historically not satisfied with Russia's presence in the Balkan region.