Reshetnikov

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic received Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshentnikov in Belgrade on Friday to discuss further strengthening of economic and overall bilateral cooperation.

MOSCOW - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday evening that, under an agreement he had reached with Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov, a Serbia-Russia intergovernmental committee on trade, economic and scientific and technical cooperation would meet in Moscow in the autumn.

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that Russia has withdrawn a member of its diplomatic corps in Sofia after the Bulgarian State Prosecution announced earlier that day that it was investigating him or her for spying.

Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov and his Russian counterpart Dimitri Medvedev discuss energy projects on August 12. Photo: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV.

Prosecutor-general Sotir Tsatsarov told media on Tuesday that Nikolay Malinov has been charged with espionage and that a former senior Russian intelligence officer, Leonid Reshetnikov, has been barred from entering Bulgaria.

The director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), a think tank directly linked to the Kremlin, has claimed that U.S. troops deployed at Turkey's İncirlik Air Base were involved in the downing of a Russian jet last year.

Kyrgyz migrant worker Belek Asanbekov sits at the kitchen table of his cramped Moscow apartment, scrolling through pictures on his mobile phone of friends killed days earlier in a fire at work.