Red Army

Putin decorates Serb WW2 veterans

BELGRADE -- Serbia's WW2 veterans have been decorated with the jubilee medals of the Russian Federation on the occasion of 70 years of victory over fascism.

The medals have been presented by Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin in the name of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Seventy years. It’s been this long since May 8th, 1945, when the Red Army closed in from the east, struck in the heart of Nazi Germany, Berlin, and raised the Red Army flag, signaling the fall of European fascism.

It had taken more than 6 years for the war to end, since the Nazis started annexing and invading lands, following a madman’s nightmarish dream.

Poland denied entry of ten Russian Night Wolves bikers, who are traveling from Moscow to Berlin to commemorate the 70thanniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

A spokesman for the Polish border guards stated that the bikers would not be allowed to pass through Polish territory as they did not fulfill the conditions for entry, TASS news agency reports.

SID, - The 70th anniversary of the breaking of the Syrmian Front was marked within the memorial complex in Adasevci near Sid on Saturday.

VIENNA - Charge d'Affairs of the Serbian Embassy to Austria Goran Bradic and Defense Attache Lt. Col. Goran Jeremic laid a wreath at the Soviet War Memorial in Vienna Monday to pay tribute to 17,000 Red Army soldiers fallen to liberate the Austrian capital in World War II 70 years ago.

Government sources on Wednesday announced that Russia was willing to "pre-pay" profits from a natural gas pipeline on the drawing board and projected to operate in 2019.

The announcement came in the wake of Greek PM Alexis Tsipras' meeting the same day at the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NATO allies are scrambling to protect vulnerable Baltic partners from the threat of hybrid warfare, a Russian tactic that officials and experts say is based on deception rather than formal declaration of war.
      

BELGRADE - By a decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, 14 Serbian World War II veterans have been decorated on occasion of Defender of the Fatherland Day, a national holiday in the Russian Federation.

Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin presented the decorations late Thursday at a ceremonial reception he hosted to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day.

Country representatives from all around the world gather in Poland on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

A Red Army officer who fought for the French Resistance before being sent to the Gulag by Soviet authorities has died aged 95, officials said on Dec. 8.

Nikolai Vasenin died a few months after learning that the French love he lost 70 years ago had also passed away.