Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to visit Serbia in January, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Friday during a visit to Belgrade, Russian news agency TASS reports.
"We consider today's talks an important step in preparing the planned visit of Putin to Serbia for January next year," Borisov said at a meeting with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.
The Serbian expert compared the use of depleted uranium in Yugoslavia to the 1945 nuclear attack on Japan.
BELGRADE, October 5. /TASS/. The use of munitions containing depleted uranium during NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugolavia was an "ecocide on a planetary scale," a prominent Serbian expert on environmental issues, Prof. Velimir Nedeljkovic, has said.
The Russian foreign ministry condemned 'the passive stance taken by the international Kosovo force KFOR'
MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/. Kosovo commando forces’ intrusion into Serbian enclaves in the north of the territory was a provocation aimed at intimidating the Serbs and an attempt to put pressure on Belgrade, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary on the Foreign Ministry’s website on Monday.
BELGRADE, October 1. /TASS/. Belgrade expects support from Russia in the settlement of its political and national tasks, and the upcoming talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin are of special importance for Serbia, President Aleksandar Vucic told reporters in Moscow on Monday.
MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Tuesday, October 2, with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic, the Kremlin press service said on Monday
President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic "will be in Russia on a working visit," the press service said. It said the two leaders will discuss "key issues of a further development of Russian-Serbian relations, as well as topical regional and international issues".
BELGRADE, September 29. /TASS/. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is planning to focus on Kosovo and Metohija at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and to ask him for support, Vucic told reporters on Saturday.
BANJA LUKA, September 21. /TASS/. Moscow rejects any attempts to make the Balkan nations chose between Russia and the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday after his talks with President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik.
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Russia expects OSCE to step up its efforts "to counter the radical nationalism among Kosovo Albanians," the ambassador added.
Kosovo Albanians are trying to impose an economic blockade of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo, Russia’s OSCE envoy, Alexander Lukashevich, said on Thursday.
Russia and Western powers disagreed on the need to keep the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) during a quarterly UN Security Council debate on the situation in the region on Tuesday.
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Brussels is considering the possibility of holding a meeting between European Parliament members and Russian legislators "on neutral territory."
And this territory may be Serbia, according to a report in Russia's Izvestia newspaper, cited by TASS.
The initiative came from Jiri Mastalka, deputy chairman of the EP Committee on Relations with Russia, the daily said.