(ANSA) - TRIESTE - A technical error or a faux pas, which,
however, has caused a big fuss in Serbia. Faux pas of the
Russian TV 'Perviy Kanal' (75% owned by the government), while
reporting President Vladimir Putin's visit to Belgrade, during
the military parade organized on the occasion of the 70th
anniversary of the Liberation of the city from the Nazi
occupation, has accompanied a news report with a map of the
Balkan country. This map, however, did not include Kosovo, which
declared independence in 2008, but is considered as an integral
part of Serbia by Belgrade and Moscow, which did not recognize
Pristina's independence and will not move in this direction,
Putin reiterated yesterday. The online versions of some Serbian
newspapers displaying nationalist tendencies have kicked up a
fuss, saying that the television in Moscow ''snatched Kosovo
from Serbia''. Some other media, more moderate, described the
incident as ''a faux pas'', stressing that even some Serbian
televisions made mistakes while reporting Putin's visit to
Belgrade. TV B92, for example, presented in a caption Vladimir
Putin as ''president of Serbia'', the daily newspaper Blic dryly
pointed out. (ANSA).
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