The Grand Deception: Post-Soviet Russia and the Wars in the Former Yugoslavia

摘要

It has long been widely assumed that Russia has been an ally of the Serbs and that it was in particular an anti-Western supporter of Belgrade during the wars of the 1990s. In fact, Russia, in cahoots with the Western powers and NATO, played a game of deception to make it appear that it was 'anti-Serbian' when in reality it acted as 'errand boy' in order to fulfill the West's objectives in the former Yugoslavia.