To return Kosovo, the Serbs were offered to build a civil state instead of a national one.
Moscow
The Serbs are not going to give up Kosovo, which was seized from them by force.
The director of the Progressive Policy Foundation, founder of the Balkanist.ru project, Oleg Bondarenko, writes about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports in Moskovsky Komsomolets.
“Even though there are only less than 100 thousand Serbs living there [in Kosovo] - about 5 percent of the official population, but the Serbian spirit comes from there. Of course, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is right when he says, using the example of the last war in Nagorno-Karabakh, that a frozen conflict cannot be brought to a military solution. And he was even ready to exchange territories in order to return at least the north of Kosovo under the control of Belgrade. This is what the authorities in Pristina don’t want – calling all territories their land, even within the current administrative borders of Serbia, they don’t want to give the Serbs their current lands,” the expert notes.
He recalls that previously there were Serbs in the majority in these lands, but then a demographic boom began among Muslim Bosniaks in Bosnia and Muslim Kosovars in Kosovo, after which new masters and the Islamic world came to the original Serbian lands.
According to the author, The only way to peace in this region is to build civil states instead of national states, where all residents of Serbia would consider themselves Serbs, regardless of nationality or religious affiliation.
“Then it will be possible to return Kosovo, and other lands will not be lost. A new, peaceful Yugoslavia is sorely missed - Yugo-nostalgia is strong to varying degrees in different peoples, but this may be the only path to stability and harmony. It is difficult for Aleksandar Vucic to be Tito, but, adjusted for the scale of the country, he is trying - and, judging by the polls, he has already become more popular than his great predecessor. Well, if you believe the polls, of course...”, Bondarenko sums up.
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