i agree with the above statements it is officially republic of kosova i say it is more than a self declared independent state but an actual independent country that much must surely be enough to appease the serbian nationalists who are trying to control the look of the page obviously kosova is as legally a country as they come because as we've said many times before the western democracies recognize the state america would never recognize such rogue states as abkhazia or south ossetia or turkish northern cyrpus or rebel areas of pakistan and afghanistan the serbs are not in kosova and if they were it would constitute an occupation rather like the one they did in the s after milosevic invaded it and joined it to serbia in his greater serbia plan it is crazy to use the word dispute just to please a minority limited serbs and some apalling allies