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Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic says it is becoming clear that he represents an obstacle to "some from the West" to achieving their interests in Serbia.

President Tomislav Nikolic has not received a letter from a US congressman reportedly proposing "an exchange of territories," the daily Vecernje Novosti said.

Sources at the Presidency said on Monday afternoon they were unaware of the existence of such a letter, and had only heard about it "from the media."

MOSCOW - Tensions in the Balkans are rising drastically, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday, expressing the hope everyone understood a new armed conflict must not be allowed to break out, RIA Novosti reported.

"Ethnic Albanian forces should not be present in Serbian-populated areas in the north of Kosovo," Reuters quoted him as saying.

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The Foreign Ministry has asked several countries to increase security of Serbian diplomatic missions that are the potential targets of Albanian terrorists.

The diplomats in these embassies have received precise instructions from Belgrade to raise "precaution" measures to the highest level, the daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting on Wednesday.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has told a Belgrade newspaper that the presidential elections campaign "has already begun for some."

The daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting this and noting that while Nikolic's mandate expires next year, there has been speculation for some time, both in the media and on the political scene, about the possible candidates.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the sale of six MiG-29 military planes, along with "a contingent" of armored vehicles.

The daily Vecernje Novosti reported this on Friday, the Beta agency said.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will resign as head of the Bureau for Coordination of Security Services.

The Beta agency said this on Tuesday, citing a report in the Belgrade-based newspaper Vecernje Novosti.

The recent appointment of Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko as Serbia's honorary consul in St. Petersburg "has caused many reactions."

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti also writes that the move was the idea of the family of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, who made the suggestion to Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - Operatives of the Security Information Agency (BIA), in cooperation with colleagues from the Serbian Interior Ministry detained a few days ago a high official of the Criminal Police Directorate (UKP). He is suspected of leaking classified information to the CIA officers who are serving in the US Embassy in Belgrade, unofficially learned Serbian daily "Novosti".

An incident has occurred at a Prague Process ministerial conference, after which the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo's interior minister walked out.

This has been reported by the daily Vecernje Novosti.