Historically and politically, the Bosnians and the Russians are a perfect match. This history started in the middle of the first thousand years A.D. when the tribes called the Southern Slavs migrated into the southeast area of Europe known as the Balkans. The Slav people as they are known, were separated from the Northern Slavs, that is, related Slavs in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Russia, by the non-Slavic tribes that settled the lands of Austria …showed first 75 words of 897 total…

…showed last 75 words of 897 total…that it can. Before the peace treaty was signed President Clinton was able to bring about a cease fire. This cease fire lasted until the peace treaty was signed. One problem was getting the Bosnian's to agree to a cease fire while gas supplies from Russia to Sarajevo were turned off. The American Ambassador Mr. Charles Pickering asked officials in Moscow to turn the gas back on. They did so and the cease fire began.