Prof. Nexhmiu Ganiu, quoting Prof. Skender Riza 53 years ago, stated that the Peace of 1796 between the Ottoman Empire and Russia was disastrous to the Illyrian population in the Bakans. In the name of Orthodox Christianity, Russian priests from Moscow were allowed to exercise influence on the Albanian population of the Adriatic, and thus slavicizing (serbification) them using the Orthodox Church.

Prof Nexmi Ganiu:

The Romanov empire entered in the Balkans in the name of Christianity. From Odessa to modern day Slovenia, these priests were allowed to work. There was a concord between the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarchate where an agreement was struck allowing the conversion of Muslim peoples but not the Catholic peoples.

Ganiu continues, saying that that the people of Bosnia and Dalmatia were all slavicized, and that prior to this, these tribes were Albanian-speaking. According to the French foreign mnister Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, the Arberian language was spoken in Dalmatia regions in 1809.

Ganiu also states that the Orthodox monasteries in Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece are secret locations for Russian paramilitary units.