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Kosovo is Serbia


"Kosovo je Srbija" (Serbian Cyrillic: Косово је Србија, English: Kosovo is Serbia) is a slogan used in Serbia since at least 2004, popularised as a reaction to Kosovo'sdeclaration of independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. The slogan has been used by a series of protests, and by the Serbian Government. The slogan has appeared on T-shirts and in graffiti, and was placed on the websites of Kosovan institutions by hackers in 2009. The slogan is used by Serbians, Greeks and Russians across the world.

Solidarity - Kosovo is Serbia (Serbian: Солидарност - Косово је Србија) is a media campaign in Serbia launched by Petar Petković in the final months of the negotiations over Kosovo and organized with the participation of 25 notable Serbian public figures, among them: Bata Živojinović, Svetlana Bojković, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Sergej Trifunović, Dragan Jovanović, Bora Đorđević, Đorđe David, Miki Jevremović, Slađana Milošević, Merima Njegomir, and Emir Kusturica.

Historians Noel Malcolm and Andrea R. Nagy have commented on the slogan's assertion. Malcolm believes that Kosovo had been occupied by the Kingdom of Serbia in 1912 and only incorporated into a Yugoslav state years later, thereby dismissing the direct claim by Serbia to Kosovo. Nagy states that the Serbian aggression in the Kosovo war and the political, economic and religious causes were an attempt to recover a part of Christian Europe that had been lost centuries earlier due to the centuries of Ottoman rule.


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