Vladimir Putin's appointment of Dmitri Rogozin as Russia's envoy to NATO last month raised a few eyebrows; Rogozin is known as a pretty hardline Russian nationalist. So it was kind of reassuring when, before their first official meeting three weeks ago, he presented NATO SecGen Jaap de Hoop Scheffer with a ceremonial tomahawk which he suggested they go bury together. But judging from Rogozin's remarks yesterday regarding Kosovo, it looks like they didn't bury the hatchet deep enough:
In a video link-up from Brussels Dmitry Rogozin said, "if the European Union works out a common position, or if NATO breaches its mandate in Kosovo, these organizations will be in conflict with the United Nations," Interfax news agency reported.
"We too will have to proceed from the view that in order to be respected we must use brute force, in other words armed force."
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