(13 Dec 2011)
Jarinje
1. Wide trucks carrying Russian aid
2. Close of sign reading (Russian): "From Russian Federation to Kosovo Serbs"
3. Close of Russian flag on truck
4. Wide of European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) official seen through barbed wire at border post
5. Wide of EULEX police and Kosovo customs
6. Wide of EULEX policemen in front of truck with aid
7. Close of two EULEX policemen
8. Mid of Russian aid workers
9. Wide of American peacekeepers on top of observation post
10. Wide of NATO Kosovo Force (KFOR) vehicle driving down the road
11. Wide of NATO helicopter flying by
12. Wide of Serbian flag in distance
13. Mid of Russia's Ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Konuzin
14. Wide of Kosovo Serb leader, Krstimir Pantic with aides
15. Mid of Konuzin with phone and Pantic beside
16. Mid of Ambassador Konuzin
17. Wide of armed EULEX policemen
++NIGHT SHOTS
Mitrovica, Kosovo
18. Wide of poster with Russian leaders
19. Mid of Russian flag and sign reading (Serbian) "When - if not now"
20. Wide of two Serbian flags in centre of town
21. Wide of Russian flag seen on building
STORYLINE:
A convoy of Russian trucks delivering aid to Serbs in Kosovo has been held up at a border point between Kosovo and Serbia.
The convoy was supposed to arrive in the northern town of Mitrovica on Tuesday.
However an EU police convoy was stopped from reaching the area to escort the convoy because Serb protesters blocked their approach.
Many Serbs in Kosovo's north refuse to work with the EU police mission because they say it backs Kosovo's ethnic Albanian authorities.
Russia's ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Konuzin, was escorting the Russian aid convoy.
He hugged Serbs manning the barricades in apparent support of their continued defiance.
Konuzin also met with Krstimir Pantic, a Kosovo Serb leader, close to the border crossing.
The Russian diplomat blamed European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) for blocking the convoy and setting conditions for entry through a different crossing point, Merdare, where Kosovo customs are stationed.
For months, Serbs have dumped rocks and soil on roads coming from the ethnic Albanian dominated south to block Kosovo authorities from stamping their authority over the defiant northern strip bordering Serbia.
Tensions rose this summer after Pristina's botched attempt to send customs officials into the Serb area.
Since then Serb protesters have clashed with NATO peacekeepers and EU police, both seen by many Serbs as supporters of Kosovo's statehood.
Moscow has become the champion of the Serb defiance against Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia.
The local Serbs are frustrated by Belgrade's refusal to use force to save them from ethnic Albanian rule.
The Kosovo Serbs have been desperately courting Moscow to press their sense of abandonment over Belgrade's enthusiastic pursuit of European Union membership, which could lead to Serbia dropping its designs on a territory it considers its spiritual homeland.
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