Eurasian Union

The committee deals with trade, economic and scientific and technical cooperation between the two countries, and convened on Saturday in Sochi, RF.

A survey by the Washington-based non-profit International Republican Institute, coordinated by US performance-based consulting company Gallup Organization, reveals that far more people want the country to join the European Union than its Kremlin-backed alternative.

Moldova's pro-Russian President Igor Dodon has become the target of mockery from rival politicians and the media in Chisinau after Russian President Vladimir Putin made a quip about him in Saint Petersburg, where the Moldovan head of state participated in the Eurasian Economic Summit on Saturday.

Russian Vladimir Putin has asserted that his country will decide for its own future and will fork for a system of international relations not based on pretence for "hegemony".

Socialist Party leader Igor Dodon has won the second round of Moldova's presidential election, partial official results indicate.

Dodon leads woth 52.57%, amid a higher voter turnout of 1.6 million, up from the 1.4 m that voted in the first round last Sunday, daily Kommersant reports, citing preliminary data.

Kyrgyzstan became Aug. 6 the fifth member of a Moscow-backed economic bloc of former Soviet countries, a move firmly linking the Central Asian state to Russia at the risk of disrupting trade with China.

OSCE chair can't impose sanctions on Russia - FM

BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić has said that the brotherhood between Serbia and Russia was "traditional" but that Serbia's political interest was to join the EU.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the agreement which would incorporate Armenia into the Eurasian Economic Council, according to radio Voice of Russia's website.

Armenia is the fourth country to enter the body also known as Eurasian Union which was established on May 29, 2014 in Kazakhstan's capital Astana.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated late on Sunday that Serbia most often adjusts its decisions with the EU and respects Ukraine's territorial integrity, but he added that it would be best to avoid introduction of sanctions for Russia due to economic reasons.

BELGRADE - Business forum of Serbian and Belarus businessmen was organised in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce on Friday within the framework of the visit of the governmental and business delegation of Belarus to Serbia, with a view to intensifying the two countries' economic relations.