Analyst Cvijetin Milivojevic told BETA news agency Russia did not change its stance on Kosovo, although an image is being created that Moscow supports an idea on delineation.
“It absolutely has no connection with the official Russian politics, that remains unchanged and Russia does not support independence of Kosovo,” Milivojevic noted.
President Aleksandar Vucic believes Vladimir Putin's visit to Serbia will be the most fruitful to date in terms of the number and content of agreement which he will sign.
Vucic also thanked the Russian Federation and its president for the support they give to the territorial integrity of Serbia and its efforts to find a compromise solution for Kosovo and Metohija.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a brief talk with the president of provisional institutions in Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, Sputnik portal reports referring to the statements of Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Peskov said that Putin pointed out to Thaci Pristina should reach consensus with Belgrade, adding that Russia would support joint decision of Belgrade and Pristina.
British journalist Tim Judah thinks that Russia would have major benefits if the result of the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations would be recognition of Kosovo and exchange of territories, BETA news agency reports today.
“Russia could use such precedent in an attempt to achieve similar agreements for secessionist territories which are under its control in Moldova (Pridnestrovie) and Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia),” Judah said.
"We are not thrilled with every photo - but everyone has their own policies and positions, just as Serbia does." This is what President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday regarding the photos Kosovo President Hashim Thaci posted the day before of himself with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, B92 reports.
Vladimir Putin said that Crimea is not Russian because the Russians came and "grabbed something."
Instead it is Russian "because the population only through a referendum asked to be received in Russia," he said.
"Crimea is ours... Why is it ours? Not because we came and grabbed something," Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai debating club.
President Vladimir Putin’s visit, at the invitation of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, in January next year, is a great honor for Serbia.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic assessed this in Tuesday's meeting with Ambassador of Russia to Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin, held in Belgrade.
"We got everything we looked for," President Aleksandar Vucic said after his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.
Vucic stressed that they agreed on "every topic of discussion."
"We got everything that we looked for. We agreed on everything," he told TASS, adding that he "could not reveal the details."
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet today in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vucic points out that this will be one of their most important meetings.
"The situation in our region is very complex, it is necessary to measure every word and political move," Vucic warned in a statement to Serbian media in Moscow on Monday.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will on Monday in Belgrade meet with Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin.
According to Tanjug, Vucic will on October 2 in Moscow meet with the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
Chepurin earlier wrote on Twitter that the meeting will be held in early October, and that the two leaders are expected to discuss "key bilateral and regional issues."