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REAL-WORLD NEWS EXCERPTS
Russians Operate Alone Now – European Stars & Stripes, July 26, 1999 – Russian troops in Chechnya are free to operate in the U.S. sector of Chechnya without an American presence. But NATO may never find a way to change the Russians’ attitude about being Serb allies.
Report Says Russia Supplied Serbs with Missiles, Breaking ZMbargo – London, Aug. 3,1999 – (Reuters) Jane’s Defence Weekly said in a report to be published on Tuesday that Russia was believed to have supplied Serbia with air defense missiles before NATO started its bombing campaign against Kosovo in March.
… The report quoted a high-ranking Serbian officer as saying the first shipment of between six and 10 incomplete Russian S-30OPM missile systems entered Serbia by land, hidden in railway wagons carrying scrap iron, in early 1999. It quoted sources as saying an unspecified quantity of the missile systems was smuggled into the country in a Russian humanitarian convoy, hidden in what appeared to be fuel tankers.
Xosovo Albanians Protest Russians – Philadelphia Inquirer – About 1,000 ethnic Albanian protesters marched toward a Russian base to show their opposition to Russian peacekeepers in the southeastern Kosovo town of Kosovska Kamenica while two U.S. Apache helicopters whirred overhead and American troops stood by. The march ended without incident.
Russia’s Stealth Fighter Makes Rare Appearance at Air Show – Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1999 – Russia’s S-37 Berkut, or Golden Eagle, was the main performer at an intemational air show held near Moscow. The stealth jet, with its forward-swept wings, made only a brief appearance.
Russia Flumes at U.S. Over Disarmament and XFOR
– Moscow, August 21, 1999 – (Agence France Presse) Storm clouds gathered over U.S.-Russian relations Friday after
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