Russia Stirs Friction in Balkans, as NATO Keeps an Uneasy Peace<br />" Mr. Nic said, "they do need to give up on this illusion." Col. Corwin Lusk, the American commander of NATO’s multinational battle group in eastern Kosovo, agreed<br />that the Serbian elections were fueling the angrier statements and that Russia was playing games, though he was skeptical that Moscow wanted a direct confrontation in the Balkans. that If they truly want to improve lives of Serbs in Serbia,<br />The abbot of the monastery, Father Sava Janjic, said the nationalistic talk from Serbia "often comes<br />back to us like a boomerang." "Every time they call me from Serbia, they ask: ‘Is there war?<br />Nikolic said that If Serbs are killed, we’ll send the army to Kosovo,<br />Belkiza Sahatqiu said that They are here to defend us from the Serbs when they want to storm back,<br />Even as the European Union has made limited progress in brokering a political settlement between Kosovo<br />and Serbia, the presence of NATO forces has maintained an uneasy peace, with animosity between the minority Serbs and majority Albanian inhabitants of Kosovo still palpable.<br />" she said, "but all they ever do is take care of their own interests." that They just talk, talk, talk, talk about defending us,
