1,000 protestors rally in Moscow against Kosovo’s secession

Over 1,000 protestors, mostly youth, gathered in Moscow on Sunday for a rally against Kosovo’s secession.

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, April 28, 2008

The protestors carried Serbian flags and held banners with messages such as "Russia, help Serbia!", "Kosovo is Serbia" and "One soul-one people".

They also chanted "Yankee Go Home" and "Russian Army to Kosovo".

The organizer of the rally, 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", 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.

He said that the Russian authorities had taken the right course, but he called on the government to send the Russian Army to Kosovo to protect the Serbs.