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Arrests in Azotara plant corruption case

BELGRADE -- Zekstra company owner and executive board chairman of the Veterinary Institute Dragan Đurić has been placed under arrest, Tanjug reported.

Along with him, owner and director of Akter DOO Tihomir Trišić and owner of Staša DOO Milan Divljak were also detained on Friday.

BELGRADE - Zekstra owner and executive board chairman of the Veterinary Institute Dragan Djuric, owner/director of Akter DOO Tihomir Trisic and owner of Stasa DOO Milan Divljak were arrested on Friday on suspicion of irregularities in fertilizer trading, which resulted in a EUR 7.5 million loss for the Pancevo-based mineral fertilizer plant Azotara, Tanjug reports.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic said Tuesday that the visit of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic to Moscow shows that Serbia pays special attention to its relations with Russia, not only in terms of foreign policy, but also bilateral economic ties.

LOZNICA - Zorana Mihajlovic, Serbia's deputy prime minister and minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, opened on Monday the repaired railway from Lesnica to Loznica, which was damaged in the severe floods, thus restoring rail freight traffic between Serbia and Republika Srpska.

PANCEVO - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has attended in Pancevo, near Belgrade, an analysis of operational and functional capabilities of the Serbian Armed Forces (VS) for 2013.

SREMSKI KARLOVCI - The modernisation of the railway line from Stara Pazova to Novi Sad in Serbia's Vojvodina province is scheduled to start at the beginning of next year, utilising around EUR 300 million worth of funds from a Russian loan, Serbian Railways Director Dragoljub Simonovic announced on Friday.

People die waiting for surgery or examination Magnetic resonance scheduled for 2021

In Serbia more than 60,000 people are in various waiting lists of 44 hospitals. Surgeries are being scheduled for as late as the year of 2023.

PANCEVO - The head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport, the Serbian Commissioner for Refugees and Migrations Vladimir Cucic and Pancevo mayor Pavle Radanov on Wednesday visited the collective refugee centre in the city and a site where social housing units will be built for refugees and displaced persons.

PANCEVO - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic opened the works on the construction and electrification of the second track on the reailway section from the Pancevo bridge to Pancevo, near Belgrade, saying that owing to this and similar projects, Serbia continues to rise from the ashes of decades of lagging growth.

PANCEVO - There has been no pressure on Serbia aimed at getting the country to alter its stance towards Russia over the situation in the Crimea, and there would be no benefit from any pressure, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Tuesday.