Russia expressed its displeasure over NATO’s unwillingness to discuss Kosovo; “Russia’s permanent mission to NATO is disappointed with the reluctance of its partners to discuss the situation in Kosovo at the NATO-Russia Council,” Dmitry Rogozin, a member of Russia’s NATO envoy told reporters on Wednesday. Rogozin in an interview with RIA Novosti further said that Moscow regards Kosovo as a “serious destabilizing factor in the Balkans.”

Four NATO members and six Serb protestors were injured on the Serbian-Kosovo border on Tuesday. NATO officials claim the situation has since returned to normal.

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The Unites States and Romania have agreed to install anti missile defense shields in Romania. Romanian Foreign Minister Teoder Basconschi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday signed a Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement at the US Department of State. The AMD shields will be located at an unused military base and are expected to become operational in 2015.

Moscow has protested to the pact, and has demanded guarantees of the shield not being used against Russia. NATO’s assistant secretary general, Dirk Brengelmann, gave political assurances the missile defense system is not aimed at Russia. However the assurances have not yet been backed by a formal legal agreement.

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Russian navy on Tuesday successfully test-fired its new ballistic missile from an advanced nuclear submarine. This was after a series of tests had failed earlier which hindered the progress of the country’s most expensive military project. Defense Ministry spokesperson Colonel Igor Konashenkov said that the Bulava missile was fired from missile submarine Yuri Dolgoruky in the White Sea that separates Russia and Scandinavia. The Bulava is a submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile with highly sophisticated independently maneuverable warheads, capable of evading all potential missile defenses. It has a range of 8,000 km and can carry 6-10 nuclear warheads.

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