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 Belgrade-based daily also states that it was "not able to receive confirmation from the top of the government" whether Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed "a compromise solution that would mean giving special status t

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. According to the report, "Brussels could ask Serbia, as a condition to open chapter 31, that the center and its staff not be granted diplomatic status, while the possibility that the EU

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. He also announced that thi