Russia–Serbia relations

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be in Budapest on Thursday for a second session of a Serbia-Hungary council on strategic cooperation.

The session will be attended by members of the governments of the two countries, who will afterwards sign a series of bilateral documents, the presidential press office has announced in a statement.

BELGRADE - Polish PM Donald Tusk said on Thursday in Belgrade his country supported Serbia's EU path and that the EU was incomplete without Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Russia will build even better relations in the future, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic wrote in the guestbook of the Russian House - the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Belgrade - on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Serbia men's national football team will play Russia and Cyprus in away friendlies scheduled for March, the Football Association of Serbia has announced on its website.

Serbia will first face Russia in Moscow on March 21 and then Cyprus in Limassol on March 25.

In addition to the known conditions related to the rule of law and the normalization of relations with Pristina, the report emphasizes that compliance with EU foreign policy, including sanctions against Russia, will determine the further course of accession negotiations, according to RTS.

Vucic welcomed Putin at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, and the two presidents then took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Cemetery of the Liberators of Belgrade and at the Monument to the Red Army Soldier in the Serbian capital.

Putin was then given the official red carpet welcome in front of the Palace of Serbia in New Belgrade.

"Unlike our Western partners, we do not try to pose an artificial dilemma for Belgrade and make Serbia choose whether to be with Russia or with the European Union," Putin said in an interview for Serbian dailies Politika and Vecernje Novosti.

According to the Serbian government, the discussed "all issues of importance for bilateral cooperation between the two countries."

The officials concluded that the relations between the two countries are traditionally good and friendly and that they represent a model of good neighborly relations in the region.

BELGRADE, June 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Serbia in the coming autumn, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday.

But Serbia will not join anti-Russia sanctions, Dacic said.