His coalition partner, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, increasingly espouses hardline nationalist rhetoric that is indistinguishable from that of Nikolic and the Radicals. In addition to rehabilitating many Milosevic-era figures and refusing to arrest indicted war criminal General Ratko Maldic, Kostunica often speaks contemptuously about the EU and insists that if the EU recognizes Kosovo’s independence, Serbia will turn away from Europe and seek closer relations with Russia.