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Aleksandar Vucic said in Belgrade on Monday that Serbia "will not be an easy target for anyone" and is working to strengthen its military capacities.

The Serbian prime minister was addressing a joint news conference with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin when he said their meeting earlier in the day focused on military-technical cooperation.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin arrived in Belgrade on Saturday evening.

He is taking part in a meeting of the Serbia-Russia Intergovernmental Committee for Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation on January 11-12.

Russian official's New Year's greeting depicts missiles

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has posted a New Year's greeting on Twitter that shows Father Frost releasing missiles from his bag.

The caretaker Defence Minister Velizar Shalamanov deserves a court trial, Volen Siderov, leader of the left-wing nationalist party Ataka told the bTV national channel morning show.

"He involved Bulgaria in war because he said Russia was an enemy of Bulgaria," Siderov, whose party opened their election campaign in Moscow, said.

A comment by Russia's deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin relating to Bulgaria's plans to replace its outdated Russian-made combat aircraft is totally unacceptable, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has said.

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Australia has imposed new sanctions on 38 Russian officials and 11 companies in connection with the situation in Ukraine.

This is the second round of sanctions by Australia, following similar ones in March, targeting 12 Russian and Ukrainian citizens, thus making a total of 50 individuals and 11 companies.

Bulgaria and Romania could send fighters after Russia's Deputy PM Rogozin while he was traveling to Transnistria via Bulgarian airspace, as he wrote on Twitter.

Dmitry Rogozin said he had been informed by the pilot that Bulgaria's air-control personnel had asked whether the "blacklisted passenger" was on board.

Montenegro "blacklists" Russian Deputy PM Rogozin

PODGORICA -- The Montenegrin government said it "supported" the decision of the Council of Europe to introduce sanctions against 12 more Russian and Ukrainian citizens.

The are banned from entering EU countries and their assets have been frozen.

Canadian aerospace and rail equipment giant Bombardier plans to build planes in Russia and the sale of USD 3.4B of aircraft will be delayed over events in Crimea.

Canada has joined the US in imposing sanctions against the country after it moved to annex Crimea, Chief Executive Officer Pierre Beaudoin said.