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By Their Deeds Ye Shall Know Them

Speaking at a round table in Belgrade dedicated to southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija on Thursday, Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija State Secretary Dusan Prorokovic said it is fairly easy to evaluate the intentions and benevolence of the US and Russian leadership towards Serbia, by looking at their actions in regards to the crisis surrounding Serbian province.

"While the official Moscow is sending humanitarian aid to help solve some of the social, humanitarian and economic problems in the province, the official Washington ships arms," Prorokovic said.

His statement follows the announcement that President Putin has approved the shipment of the most urgently needed humanitarian aid to isolated Serbian enclaves in the province. The announcement came after UNMIK confiscated another shipment of medical supplies destined for healthcare institutions in the Kosovo Serb enclaves for the second time this month.

Russian Patriarch Expresses Solidarity with Serbian People

Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexy II has also thanked President Vladimir Putin for his imitative to send humanitarian assistance to Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

His Grace Alexy II said he regrets that Orthodox churches in Kosovo have been destroyed "with the silent consent of Europe's public opinion and European politicians".

"This is the tragedy of Serbs. We express our sympathy to the Serb people, who are losing land that is sacred to them," Russian Patriarch said.

Moscow Rally: Kosovo is Serbia

That Serbs can count on continued Russian support was also confirmed during the Wednesday rally several Russian Orthodox and youth organizations held in the Victory Square of the Russian capital. The gathering was organized to show strong support for Kosovo Serbs and Serbia in its struggle for the territorial integrity.

According to Tanjug news agency, Russian demonstrators have backed Serbian sovereignty over the Kosovo-Metohija province and called on Russian leadership to "support the brotherly Serbian nation with even more resolve".

Gathered activists requested sending of the Russian peacekeepers to Serbian enclaves in Kosovo province, as the only way to prevent the genocide over Serbs.

"Serbs are the avant-guard of the Russian nation, by protecting Serbia, we are protecting Russia", the leader of the Euro-Asian Youth Association Pavel Zarifulin said, stressing the need to defy NATO, so that Washington and NATO are pushed further away from the Russian borders.

Freedom or Death!

Demonstrators chanted "Russian Army to Kosovo", "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia", "Glory to Serbia, Glory to Russia", "Stop NATO", "Glory to Russia — death to NATO"...

"We shall go to Kosovo to protect our Serbian brothers," leader of the Orthodox Association Leonid Donatovich said, while Valery Korovin of the Euro-Asian Association said that "Serbia is a part of great Russian Empire", advocating uniting Serbia and Russia into a common state.

"Serbia is Russia and Kosovo is Serbia", he said.

Russian activists carried the flags of their associations along with Russian and Serbian state flags, as well as the Orthodox Christian flags which read "With faith in God, the Justice Prevails" and "Freedom or Death". The banners reading "Milosevic today, Putin tomorrow?" and "Kosovo is Serbian land" were also carried.

Recommended: McCain Supports Radical Muslims in Kosovo, by Cliff Kincaid (AccuracyInMedia.org); Crossing the Rubicon: March 1999, by Neil Clark (Neil Clark Blog); Six Little Reasons, by Slobodan Antonic (Gray Falcon); Misreporting Kosovo, by Brad Macdonald (TheTrumpet.com); CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton's Bosnia Whopper (YouTube)