Belgrade: Kosovo Serbs have right to apply for Russian citizenship
The Serbian authorities will not prevent ethnic Serbs living in northern Kosovo from applying for Russian citizenship, Belgrade's ambassador to Moscow, Jelica Kurjak, has stressed. "This is for each citizen to decide, and the state cannot do anything here," he told Interfax. He described the move by over 20,000 Serbs living in Kosovo to apply for Russian citizenship as "a cry of despair." Their appeal to the Russian Embassy in Serbia is in fact "an attempt to seek friends' protection," Kurjak said, commenting on recent attempts by Pristina to take control of Serb customs checkpoints in the northern part of Kosovo in what ethnic Serbs see as a bid to isolate them from Serbia proper.
