Section: Serbia
Ukraine “ready to buy” controversial overhaul MiGs
Ukraine supports the investigation launched in Croatia into the overhaul of a number of its MiG-21 jets in Ukraine.This was the reaction of Ukraine’s ambassador in Zagreb, Oleksandr Levchenko, who added he was “certain (Ukraine) would refute the scandal related to it.” …read more Source:...
Croatia suspects scam in MiG-21 overhaul deal with Ukraine
The Croatian military police are carrying out “a big investigation” concerning a deal that saw the country buy and overhaul MiG-21 jets in Ukraine.Zagreb-based Jutarnji List daily writes that “many irregularities” have been uncovered so far, while there is “serious suspicion” that “someone received...
Russians to stop shipping gas to Serbia via Ukraine in 2019
Serbia will definitely be left without Russian gas shipped through Ukraine in 2019, “and will by then have to find a way to get gas.”Director of Serbia’s state-owned gas enterprise Srbijagas Dusan Bajatovic said this during Friday’s regional Conference “Energy efficiency and perspectives”, organized by Color...
Serbian and US armies hold defense consultations
BELGRADE – The armed forces of Serbia and the United States have held bilateral defense consultations, preceded by a meeting of Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Djordjevic and Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic, with Michael Carpenter, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense with responsibility for Russia,...
Juncker: Ukraine Not Likely To Join EU, NATO For 20-25 Years
BELGRADE – It will take Ukraine at least 20 to 25 years to join the European Union and NATO, European Commission President Jean-Claude said March 3. “Ukraine will definitely not be able to become a member of the EU in the next 20 to 25 years, and not of NATO either,” he said in a …read more Source:...
Poroshenko asks Ukraine’s prime minister to resign
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked the country’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to step down.Poroshenko on Tuesday issued a statement saying that Yatsenyuk’s cabinet had lost the support of the ruling coalition, but that Ukraine “has no time for elections.” …read more Source:...
3 Ukranian soldiers dead in renewed fighting
Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and seven more wounded on Tuesday in clashes between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels.This has been announced by the authorities in Kiev. …read more Source:...
Protocol gaffe in Geneva turns Russian flag into “Serbian”
The Russian flag was hung upside down in the conference room in Zurich ahead of a meeting between the top Russian and U.S. diplomats, RT is reporting.Ahead of Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry’s meeting on Syria, the Middle East, and Ukraine, a cameraman noted that the Russian flag was displayed upside down. …read more Source:...
“Cost of EU-Russia sanctions reaches 75 billion last year”
Russia’s losses due to EU sanctions amounted to EUR 25 billion last year, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development Aleksei Likhachev said this week.Speaking at the 2016 Gaidar Forum conference, he said that EU’s estimated losses due to Russia’s countermeasures were EUR 50 billion in 2015, and EUR 40 billion the year before....
Putin: If Kosovo could do it, so could Crimea
“It is not borders and state territories that matter, but people’s fortunes,” Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.In an interview for Germany’s Bild newspaper, he reiterated his position that Russia respected international law in the case of the annexation of Crimea. …read more Source:...
