PRISTINA, Kosovo, Feb 15 (Reuters) - One year after Kosovo's Albanian majority declared independence ethnic tensions remain high and minority Serbs are not integrated into state institutions. Here are some facts about Kosovo's Serbs: * Up to 200,000 Serbs and other ethnic minorities left Kosovo after NATO bombing in 1999 to live in Serbia. * About 120,000 Serbs live in Kosovo making up more than 5 percent of the total population. More than 50,000 live in the northern part of Kosovo which is linked to Serbia by road. * The remaining 70,000 live south of the river Ibar in NATO-protected enclaves within ethnic Albanian territory. * Serbia cherishes Kosovo as the cradle of its Orthodox Christianity, where some of its most treasured churches and monasteries dot the landscape. * Some 3 percent of the Serbian population in Kosovo work in the public sector and are paid by Belgrade. Most of them get salaries from the Kosovo budget as well. Doctors, teachers and judges in Kosovo earn more than their colleagues in Serbia. * Kosovo Serbs refuse to recognise Pristina institutions and travel to Serbia to get documents such as birth certificates, drivers' licences, passports and identity cards.
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