{"id":197320,"date":"2008-02-13T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/russia-rules-out-punitive-actions-against-kosovo\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:41:00","slug":"russia-rules-out-punitive-actions-against-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/13\/russia-rules-out-punitive-actions-against-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Rules Out Punitive Actions Against Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians believe that a declaration of independence is a bad thing, but they have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7243026.stm\">ruled out sanctions against Kosovo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">very<\/span> positive development.  One of the political imperatives in Russia is that it sees itself as a &#8220;Protector of the Slavs&#8221;, particularly those who subscribe to Orthodox Christianity, such as the Serbs.<\/p>\n<p>They are behaving moderately because they recognize reality, and because, despite what the &#8220;very sensible people&#8221; in Washington say, Russia is not looking at reestablishing the USSR or the Warsaw Pact.<\/p>\n<p>Their hostility toward the current path in US policy is because they feel that US policy is hostile towards them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians believe that a declaration of independence is a bad thing, but they have ruled out sanctions against Kosovo. This is a very positive development. One of the political imperatives in Russia is that it sees itself as a &#8220;Protector of the Slavs&#8221;, particularly those who subscribe to Orthodox Christianity, such as the Serbs. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,964,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}