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DS and NS: Is the timing right to host Putin?

BELGRADE -- DS and NS Members of Parliament assessed that there is no doubt if Serbia should host such a "great leader" as Vladimir Putin, but questioned the timing of it.

BELGRADE - Five members of the Gendarmerie have been suspended over the beating of Serbian prime minister's brother Andrej Vucic and the investigation into the incident to establish the facts and motives will be completed early next week, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized his country does not want to continue  the war of sanctions currently ongoing between Moscow and the West.

In an interview with Russian TV station Pyatiy Kanal, Lavrov said his country has no intentions to impose restrictions just as a tool "to tease somebody, as it happens with our partners when they adopt coercive measures".

Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior is investigating a new group of contract killers in the country, the Ministry Chief Secretary Svetlozar Lazarov said, Thursday.

He added that the group is responsible for the murder of a public figure, Bulgarian National Radio informed.

"I hope that soon we can shed light on a fifth contract killing group," Lazarov said.

SKOPJE - Macedonian and Serbian Foreign Ministers Nikola Popovski and Ivica Dacic signed in Skopje on Monday an Agreement on rational use of resources in joint diplomatic and consular missions abroad, announcing that the locations and countries where the joint missions are to be set up will be defined soon.

Forensic training center at Police Academy

BELGRADE -- A forensic training center was opened at the Serbian Police Academy on Tuesday, equipped through a EUR 540,000 donation from Sweden.

BELGRADE - A forensic training centre was opened at the police academy on Tuesday, equipped through a EUR 540,000 donation from Sweden.

The centre sports the latest equipment for general and specialist forensic training. It was opened by Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and Swedish Ambassador to Serbia Christer Asp.

Serbian film wins three awards in Venice

VENICE -- "No One's Child", a debut movie by Serbian screenwriter and director Vuk Rsumovic, scooped three awards at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Internal Nebojsa Stefanovic has said that a final security assessment for the Gay Pride event, which should be held on September 28, will be known in two weeks, adding that the police are prepared for this event.

A video showing the purported beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff held hostage by Islamic State has been released online, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.