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It could be argued this mini war led us down the pathto the Leveson Inquiry (set up to investigate phone hacking of British celebrities by News International) far quicker than we would have got there without it.
The resolution was agreed on by leading democracies and Russia in Cologne, Germany, as a pathto ending the 77-day-old Kosovo war and allowing the return of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees.
Many reporters have also been determined to avoid repeating the passive path taken by many colleagues before the Iraq war, when tough questions were not asked.
Serbia's pathto becoming an EU candidate was given a boost last year when two major war crimes suspects - former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic - were arrested.
As long as Washington refuses to compromise over those matters, Arbatov believes, the two sides may be on a path toward another war in the Middle East.