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PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro (AFP) Jul 29, 2003
Russian peacekeepers serving with the NATO-led mission in Kosovo left the province last week without paying some 500,000 euros (570,000 dollars) in outstanding electricity bills, an official said Tuesday.
"They did not pay so we have followed this matter up to the Russian Ministry of Defence and we are negotiating the matter," Betty Dawson, spokeswoman for Kosovo electrical company (KEK), told AFP.

Last week the last Russian peacekeepers departed Kosovo, ending their four-year mission in the troubled Serbian province. The troops however did not pay KEK their outstanding bill for services since they came to the province in June 1999.

Kosovo's energy company is supervised by the UN mission (UNMIK) here and still faces constant problems in supplying the province with electricity, mainly due to outdated equipment.

"They owe money, they need to pay, they will be pursued for that payment," Simon Haselock, spokesman for UNMIK, said.

Some 650 Russian soldiers served as part of the NATO-led KFOR mission in Kosovo and were largely in charge of protecting areas inhabited by minority Serbs in the mainly Albanian-populated province.

KFOR however shrugged off responsibility for the debt, saying it was a matter to be dealt with by the Russian authorities.

"This is an issue KEK has to take up with the Russian authorities...we're disappointed that people have left and not paid their debt, obviously," Gary Bannister-Green, KFOR's spokesman said.

Russian officials have said that high costs prompted their decision to pull out the troops, with the Balkan deployment costing Moscow 26.9 million dollars (23.6 million euros) annually.

Kosovo was brought under UN and NATO administration in June 1999 after a three-month NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.

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When ancient Rome was near defeat,
the invincible Tenth Legion was raised:
they beat the barbarians on the battlefield
and Rome gained peace with honour again.
When the traitor, on September the eighth,
left the fatherland in infamy,
the Tenth Flotilla was raised from the sea
and it brought weapons at the cry for honour!

Oh our Tenth Flotilla,
you that mocked England,
you victorious on Alexandria,
Malta, Souda and Gibraltar,
you already victorious upon the sea,
now even on the dry land
you will win!

To you Italian ships, stolen from us
not in battle but by treason,
and to you, our prisoners and dead brothers,
we swear:
we swear that we'll came back,
let this be God's and the Flag's will.
We swear that we'll fight
until we obtain an honourable peace!

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Inquisitor Kenny
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cheap bastards.

-Kenny

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HELLO HELLO

I would not be proud to run Russia. J/k

You'd think the Russian gov't could pay that off if they were already spending millions while they wre in that country.

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