Ranko Mandic

Medalja "Mars-Broska" - Russian "Bosnia-Kosovo"-Medal, 12.06.1999

Gentlemen,

does anyone have informations in English and/or scans about that extraordinary Russian Medal, which was given for the raid to the airport of Pristina at the 12th of june 1999 ?

That action might have developed into a severe military confrontation between NATO vs. Russia, if Gen. Walker wouldn't have refused the order from Gen. Clark, who had been kicked out of the US-Army afterwards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark . Gen. Mike Walker told to Gen. Wesley Clark on phone: "I'm not going to start the Third World War for you." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jackson

The medal had been issued by the "Russian Ministery of Defence" in 2 classes ( ?) and medal has an engraved s/n. at the rv.

That's a link to an article about that medal in Srpski:

http://www.snd.org.yu/dinar/28/07.faleristika.pdf (please scroll down to the article!)

Is it possible to buy such a medal + document somewhere ?

Best regards

Christian

One of the types of that medal is offered at the Singidunum, that's the following item:

http://www.singidunum-online.com/shope/pro...productsID=5749

Ranko

Dear Ed,

dear Sasa,

last thursday Milan from "Singidunum" delivered a "Orden of Bravery" (YU-made) for mere EUR 7,- to me .

Now I have that order for the case, which I had for years (I bought a CCCP-Red Banner in that case in Belgrade).

Best regards

Christian

Hi Christian,

Sinngidunum - a full address is http://www.singidunum-online.com/ - is not owned by Milan, but by my son Marko. I also help him a bit in his numerous contacts with OMD collectors.

Someone mentioned low prices of miniatures in Belgrade. Those prices are offered by Singidinum only, and there is still some small quantity on stock.

Best regards to all,

Ranko Mandic, editor of the magazine "Orden"

published by the Serbian Numismatic Society in Belgrade