Sanda Raškovic-Ivić

This is according to Gennady Sisoyev, a correspondent for Russian daily Kommersant, who spoke for Beta agency.

Sisoyev said that one of Lavrov's key messages was that Serbia is not threatened by "Ukrainization" - that is, destabilization and civil unrest as a result of being forced to choose between Russia and the EU - "as long as current political forces are in power."

They accused the public service of regularly breaking the law, and blocking the opposition.

None of the opposition leaders who showed up - including Dragan Djilas, Boris Tadic, Zoran Zivkovic, Vuk Jeremic, Sasa Jankovic, and Sanda Raskovic-Ivic - spoke at the gathering.

Ivanovic, a Serb politician in northern Kosovo, was gunned down by unknown perpetrators in front of his office in northern Kosovska Mitrovica early on Tuesday.

Opposition leaders, including Dragan Sutanovac, Boris Tadic, Zoran Zivkovic, Marinika Tepic, Vuk Jeremic, Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, Dijana Vukomanovic, and Dragan Djilas gathered in Belgrade in front of St. Sava's Temple.

The People's Party (Narodna Stranka) has been founded in Belgrade; former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has been elected as the new party's leader.

At the Founding Assembly, in the presence of 352 delegates, Jeremic was unanimously elected as the party's president.

RIK President Vladimir Dimitrijevic says the opposition "has no reason to doubt the legitimacy of the electoral process in Kosovo and Metohija."

The Dveri Movement and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), although in coalition, are divided on Aleksandar Vucic's invitation to talks about his new cabinet.

Serbian opposition groups alleged electoral fraud at weekend polls after the latest results showed a far-right DSS-Dveri coalition has been excluded from parliament.

The leaders of the coalition, supported by other three opposition parties, called a protest for Saturday to be held in front of the Electoral Commission in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Based on a 60-percent sample of votes, the coalition of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Dveri movement has said that it won 6.17 percent of the votes in the Serbian early parliamentary elections on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader Sanda Raskovic-Ivic said on Sunday that she expects a solid election result for the DSS-Dveri coalition, which she believes can make it to the parliament.

"We will see if the elections are regular, and if the regularity is there, we expect a good result," Raskovic-Ivic said after casting her ballot in Belgrade.

Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader Sanda Raskovic-Ivic has said that pensions must be returned to the level they were at before the cuts.