The armoured motorcade carrying Serbian President Boris Tadic came under attack as he marked Orthodox Christmas in Kosovo. A crowd of about 200 Kosovo Albanian protesters hurled stones at at Tadic's convoy as it was escorted through the western town of Decani. The 53-year-old leader traditionally visits a 14th century monastery to mark Serbian Orthodox Christmas on Jan 7th. Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008, has a population that's 90 percent ethnic Albanian. Tensions have been rising since the Kosovan government tried to claim a largely lawless part of the north of the country inhabited by minority Serbs. Kosovo is steeped in Serb history and myth, with several centuries-old Orthodox religious sites. But Serbia lost control over the territory in 1999 when NATO intervened to halt a civil war. More about: Clashes and riots, Kosovo, Serbia, Serbia politics