Putin's visit to Belgrade is of political importance and should answer the question: is Serbia ready to be Moscow's key ally in the region, B92 portal reports, quoting Russian daily Kommersant.

If not, Serbia will continue its rapprochement with the EU and NATO, balancing between the West and Russia, assesses the Moscow daily.

Serbia will not give diplomatic status to the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center in Nis, writes Danas daily.

The report, carried by Beta, refers to "sources from the top of the government".

According to the newspaper, the decision made in 2014 will remains in force, by which the center in Nis was not granted diplomatic status.

The EU, too, intends to press Serbia over the Serbian-Russian Humanitarian Center (RSHC), Vecernje Novosti daily reported today.

The Belgrade newspaper adds that the shutting down of the center, located in southern Serbia, could be made a condition for chapter 31 in Serbia's EU accession negotiations.

The Russian ambassador believes the reason for not solving the issue of the RSHC is "the desire of some forces to cause additional damage to Serbia".

"By undermining this center, these forces are trying to show that there are other bosses of this country, rather than the Serbs. However, only Belgrade should make a sovereign decision here in any case," Aleksandr Chepurin in an interview for the daily Vecernje Novosti.

The Serbian government will soon discuss the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center (RSHC) and the status of its staff.

"It's really no longer either normal, nor do I understand why they (the US) are opposed to giving immunity to Russian humanitarian workers in the Nis Center," First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told Vecernje Novosti.