Valentina Matviyenko

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will probably visit Russia in December, when he will meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko will on Monday start her two-day official visit to Serbia.

The head of the upper house of the Russian parliament will first meet with President of the Serbian National Assembly Maja Gojkovic, and later make statements for the media.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will visit Russia on Dec. 5-7, where he will discuss Ankara's  first steps to ensure that trade with China, Russia and Iran is conducted in local currency, along with several other key issues.

All accommodation expenses and other expenditures by the Turkish delegation will be paid for in Russian rubles, the Prime Ministry said in a statement yesterday. 

STRASBOURG - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic and Valentina Matviyenko, Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly, signed in Strasbourg on Thursday an agreement on cooperation between the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) and the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA CIS).

High-level representatives from Ankara and Moscow have come together for face-to-face talks for the second time since Turkey downed a Russian warplane over airspace violations last month. 

Nikolic to Matviyenko: Serbia remains neutral

BELGRADE -- Serbia will preserve its neutral position and will not introduce any kind of sanctions against Russia, President Tomislav Nikolic said on Wednesday.

He made the remarks during his meeting in Belgrade with Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko.

Russian Federation Council chairwoman visits Serbia

BELGRADE -- Russia highly appreciates Serbia's free and independent foreign policy, Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko said on Tuesday

She spoke after her meeting in Belgrade with Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic.

Speaker meets with Federation Council chairwoman

MOSCOW -- Russia and Serbia "are committed to further improvement of cooperation, especially on the inter-parliamentary level and in the field of economy."

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko and Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic have underlined that Russia and Serbia are committed to further improvement of cooperation, especially on the inter-parliamentary level and in the field of economy.

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.