The Position of Russian Diplomacy toward the Kosovo Issue (1998-1999)
The Position of Russian Diplomacy toward the Kosovo Issue (1998-1999)

Summary/Abstract: The wars in Yugoslavia – both in Bosnia and later in Kosovo – unquestionably aroused the curiosity of the international community, including the Russian Federation. As a result of the war in Kosovo, namely with the NATO intervention, relations between Western countries and Russia entered a deterioration phase. Russian diplomacy after the 1990s consistently insisted that its status was equal to that of the Western countries, while even resolutely claiming that it was to be consulted when it came to the future of the security architecture in Europe. The purpose of this article is to present to the readers the role of the Russian Federation in the Kosovo war and Russia’s reaction to the NATO military intervention. As we will see, Russia’s main concern was the shape that international relations were taking in the post-Kosovo period, and NATO’s increasing role in the larger European security. In this article the main method which will be used is qualitative method. We will use the descriptive method also, to describe the developments that characterized Russian foreign policy in the period of Kosovo war. Secondary sources will be used as data collection such as government documents or publications from UN or NATO.

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