Russian News Agency TASS

MOSCOW - The Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) want to take part in demining operations in Syria, including the city of Palmyra, but currently lack the capacities for this, Serbian Defence Minister Zoran Djordjevic said in Moscow Tuesday.

The newly- elected UN Secretary General António Guterres is expected to arrive in Moscow on November 24, where he will meet head of state Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, reported TASS News Agency.

Russia's prosecuting authority has indicted Zaur Dadayev, the person who it believes killed opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in February.

Separately, charges will be pressed against four other people believed to be his accomplices, TASS news agency reports.

Dadayev in March owned up to having committed Nemtsov's murder, but then retracted his confessions.

Gazprom Neft said on Monday that it had obtained the right to use subsoil of two gas fields in Serbia.

"Two permits were obtained to use the subsoil of Rusanda Plitko and Martonos West in Serbia," the company said, cited by the TASS news agency.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has accepted Kosovo as its full-fledged member, the TASS news agency has reported.

The decision was announced at the IAFF congress in Beijing. A total of 204 delegates took part in the vote.

Russia's largest mobile operator MTS could be interested in taking part in the privatization of Serbian telecommunications company Telekom Srbija.

This is what Andrei Dubovskov, MTS president, CEO and chairman of the management board has said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

Incidents with flags waving in the central area of Ukraine's capital Kiev sparked much controversy on Tuesday, leaving media outlets divided over whether they were Bulgarian or Russian.

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev is visiting Ukraine on Tuesday and Wednesday to meet several officials including counterpart Petro Poroshenko.

At least five people are feared dead after the Admiral shopping center in Kazan, South-Western Russia, went ablaze on Wednesday.

All the victims reported so far are citizens of Tajikistan.

Fifty-five have been injured, Russia's ITAR-TASS agency reports.

Over 650 people have been evacuated or rescued, but authorities say there are still people inside.

The EU intends to provide a new financial aid package to Ukraine estimated at EUR 110M in 2015.

The statement was made by European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, TASS news agency reported.

He said that the larger portion of the sum will be utilized to assist the private sector in the country.

Investigators of the assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov are pursuing several lines of inquiry, including a contract killing, the head of the Russian Security Service Alexander Bortnikov has said.