"Kosovo is Serbia" - Novak Djokovic

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Novak Djokovic's speech at the big Serbian rally against Kosovo's alleged "declaration of independence". Several hundreds of thousands of Serbs gathered in Belgrade, and Djokovic, who was absent from the country at the time, send his video message to all Serbs and those who support international law.

A "Kosovo je Srbija" rally organized by the Serbian government was held on 21 February 2008 in Belgrade in front of the Parliament, with around 200,000-500,000 people attending. The US Embassy was set on fire by a small group of protesters. A small protest also occurred in London and 5,000 protesters demonstrated in Kosovska Mitrovica the following day. Kosovo police were injured during a protest by 150 war veterans at a border crossing on 25 February.
In March 2008, American-born Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić won the European championship in the 50m butterfly, setting the new European record, a result briefly quashed when the European Swimming Federation (LEN) disqualified the swimmer for wearing a T-shirt at the medals ceremony that read "Kosovo is Serbia" in Cyrillic.
Violent protests using the slogan occurred in Montenegro after the government recognized the independence of Kosovo in October 2008.
Similar protests were held in the Greek and Russian capitals of Athens and Moscow, respectively.

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