Attempts of the United States and some other Western nations to assert their dominant role in the Balkan region have become a serious destabilizing factor, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Serbia’s Vecernje Novosti newspaper ahead of his visit to Belgrade.
"As far as the situation in the Balkans is concerned, the policy of the US and some other Western nations aimed at asserting their dominant role remains a serious destabilizing factor here," the Russian leader said, recalling the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the support of the 2008 unilateral proclamation of Kosovo’s independence.
