Sergey Lavrov

Russia will keep its right to appropriately respond to EU sanctions, a spokesman announced on Saturday.

Aleksander Lukashevich, Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesman, described EU's decisions to impose sanctions on Moscow as "detached from reality" and called on two sides to return back to "cooperation which meets their interests", RIA Novosti agency has reported.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic had separate talks on Wednesday with Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport and Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin, who informed him about the stands of Brussels and Moscow, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a release.

BELGRADE - The first Serbia-Russia business expo and the first Belgrade business forum were opened in Belgrade on Wednesday with participation of 87 Russian and 100 Serbian companies.

The expo, which is organized in Hotel Metropol Palace, brings together companies from the sectors of traffic, energy, medical equipment and agriculture.