“I would try to win over “shoulder by shoulder” with Serbia to return the international law to the region, once and for all, primarily when it comes to the Kosovo issue,” Russian Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharachenko told Tanjug news agency. He added Russia would support “a compromise and creative” solution, the one that Belgrade and Pristina must agree upon and which Russia could defend at the UN Security Council. In an exclusive interview to Tanjug news agency, the first one for the Serbian media after taking the office, Ambassador Botsan-Kharachenko noted that he sees “the re

President Aleksandar Vucic has received Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Federation's State Duma.

Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed on Wednesday after meeting with his Russian counterpart that the president of the two countries will meet on April 26. Aleksandar Vucic and Vladimir Putin will speak in Beijing during a Belt and Road forum. Dacic announced that meeting during a press conference with Sergei Lavrov, Sputnik said. "Political relations between Serbia and Russia are very good, they are at the strategic level. President Putin's visit (to Serbia) was of exceptional significance.

President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin discussed on Tuesday the organization of Vucic's meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Vucic and Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Beijing during the Belt and Road forum.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Russian Federation Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Chepurin, who handed over to him a letter from the Russian President Vladimir Putin, sent on the occasion of Serbia’s Statehood Day, Danas daily reports. In a letter, the Russian President said that “Russia highly values strategic partnership and relations with Serbia,” and “with satisfaction emphasizes that cooperation between the two countries evolves dynamically in the most diverse areas.” President Putin also thanked Vucic once more for a warm reception during the visit to Serbia. Meanwhile, A

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic commenting on yesterday’s statements of his Slovenian counterpart Cerar on protests in Serbia, Putin’s visit and EU path, said that Cerar speaks about political crisis in Belgrade and they barely managed to form a government, Vecernje Novosti reported. “It came as a surprise to me that Miro Cerar did not raise the question about Slovenia’s EU future when in 2016 in Vrsic he stood steady next to Vladimir Putin, or when his counrty, not so long ago, pushed hard to host the Russian President Putin offering their readiness to host a historic meeting wi

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday expressed his gratitude to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his visit to Serbia the day before. Vucic also thanked citizens of Serbia who turned out to greet Putin. "I express my gratitude to Putin for visiting Serbia, for the time devoted and the respect shown to our country, as well as for the concrete agreements that we have signed," Vu

Leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Milos Jovanovic said in a written statement that Vladimir Putin in Belgrade “unequivocally conveyed” Moscow “in no way supports idea that Serbia should accept secession, respectively division of Kosovo,” BETA news agency reported. Jovanovic assessed the visit of the Russian President Putin to Serbia as significant “not only because of the signed agreements on cooperation and memorandums of understanding in different areas, but foremost because of a clearly voiced Russian stance that Moscow advocates for reaching a mutually acceptable s

Editor of BETA news agency, Dragan Janjic commenting on gathering of citizens to welcome Russian President Vladimir Putin in Belgrade yesterday, said it was a manifestation intended for domestic public, rather than for Putin. “This was a manifestation of power, while authorities want to present it as the manifestation of support,” Janjic said. “And the very end, when Vucic asked Patriarch Irinej to ask Putin to address the gathered citizens is confirmation of that, because citizens are here to see Putin, and Vucic wanted him to tell few words to them.

Serbia and Russia on Thursday signed over 20 agreements, memorandums, accords and protocols on future cooperation. The documents were signed after a meeting of Serbian and Russian delegations headed by Presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Vladimir Putin, during the Russian leader's visit to Serbia on January 17. Rosatom CEO Aleksei Likhachev and Serbian Minister for Innovations Nenad Popovic initialed an agreement on peaceful use of nuclear energy. Other major documents include MoUs on Russian