KOMMERSANT Kosovo Independence Funded by Drug Dealers, Rogozin Says Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:56 am (PST)
<http://www.kommersant.com/p-12114/r_527/Rogozin_Kosovo/> http://www.kommersant.com/p-12114/r_527/Rogozin_Kosovo/ KOMMERSANT (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) Feb. 22, 2008 Kosovo Independence Funded by Drug Dealers, Rogozin Says Recognition of Kosovo's independence might have been funded by local drug mafia, supposed Russia's envoy to U.N. Dmitry Rogozin. The link between drug traffickers and recognition of self-proclaimed republic by the EU states is quite probable, RIA Novosti reported with reference to Rogozin. "Kosovo has long turned not only into the base for trafficking drugs to Europe but also into a big laboratory," Rogozin said, supposing that some policymakers in Europe might have been bribed by money of drug mafia. Kosovo parliament declared the independence past Sunday and half of the EU as well as the United States and Australia have welcomed a new state already. The standing of Serbia is quite the opposite. During the mass rally that was staged in downtown Belgrade yesterday, the demonstrators set on fire the U.S. embassy, stormed the U.S. stores, McDonalds and the embassies of the EU states that recognized their breakaway province.
