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Russian – Serbian military cooperation

12:02 25.11.2019

Russian – Serbian military cooperation

After many years of not investing in the armed forces, Serbia began to invest more seriously in rebuilding its army. Serbia has spent close to € 830 million since December 2016 to acquire new war techniques and modernize its armed forces, including overhaul and maintenance of weapons and military equipment. …

Joint military drills between Russia and Serbia

21:58 02.11.2019

Joint military drills between Russia and Serbia

From 24 to 29 October in Serbia was held joint tactical live-fire exercise with air defence missile units of the Serbian Air Defence units and the Russian Aerospace Forces dubbed “Slavic Shield 2019”. The aim of the exercise was to educate and use the joint group of the Serbian Air …

Geopolitics of Montenegrin Serbs

11:28 19.09.2019

Geopolitics of Montenegrin Serbs

Daniel Serwer (Photo: Media Center Belgrade)In Montenegro, since 1945 and the beginning of the rule of the Yugoslav Communists, the process of assimilation of Serbs into Montenegrins is implemented. But, in this process, it is important to highlight the geopolitical turning point in 1997, when the current regime began to …

Russian ambassador in Serbia: Resolution 1244 must be the basis for resolving the Kosovo issue

12:43 27.08.2019

Russian ambassador in Serbia: Resolution 1244 must be the basis for resolving the Kosovo issue

Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, newly appointed Russian ambassador to Serbia, has told to Serbian media on Thursday that outgoing Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj’s statement about Moscow advocating the division of Kosovo was “ridiculous.” The ambassador said that option “has never officially been on the table.”"We have never initiated a similar idea …

Ethnic tensions in Montenegro

12:17 10.07.2019

Ethnic tensions in Montenegro

On Sunday, July 7, the citizens of Montenegro had the opportunity to witness another incident, that is, the open provocation of radical Albanian elements in Montenegro. Traditionally, on the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, in Svac, near Ulcinj (a town on the southern coast of Montenegro) …

Pressure on the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro

10:49 26.06.2019

Pressure on the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro

The Montenegrin Government adopted a draft law on May 16 that included a register of all religious objects, for which they claim that they were formerly owned by the independent kingdom of Montenegro before it become part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918. The new law …

Slavic Brotherhood 2019

10:58 18.06.2019

Slavic Brotherhood 2019

Paratroopers from Serbia will be hosts to elite counterparts from Russia and Belarus for this year`s Slavic Military Brotherhood exercise, which will last over 13 days between June 14 and 27.On June 14 the multinational tactical exercise with live firing "Slavic Brotherhood 2019" started lining up members of the armed …

Strong support of president Putin to Serbia

10:32 12.06.2019

Strong support of president Putin to Serbia

Serbia was visited on June 3 by the first man of Russian Duma and one of the closest associates of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The arrival of Vyacheslav Volodin in Belgrade just a few days after the brutal intrusion of Albanian special forces in the north of Kosovo and …

Tensions in Kosovo - Russia closely monitors the situation

12:44 29.05.2019

Tensions in Kosovo - Russia closely monitors the situation

Police of self proclaimed state of Kosovo launched raids in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Serbs-majority north of Kosovo, sparking an angry reaction from Serbs.More than twenty people have been arrested so far. Among those arrested is the chief of police of the village of Zubin Potok. …

Montenegrin hybrid war against Russia

11:27 28.05.2019

Montenegrin hybrid war against Russia

The High Court in Podgorica sentenced a group of 14 people on May 9 on terrorism charges and creating a criminal organization as part of an October 2016 attempt to overthrow the government and scupper the country’s NATO membership bid. The court found that the group of Serbs, Russians and …

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