Collection of documents Yugoslavia-USSR

BELGRADE - A collection of documents entitled Yugoslavia-USSR; Meetings and discussions between top officials of Yugoslavia and the USSR, 1946-1964, tome I was presented at the Yugoslav Archive on Thursday.

It is a joint project by the Yugoslav Archive, Russian Federal Archive Agency, Russian State Archive of Recent History and Institute of Slavic Science of the Russian Academy of Science.

Official of the Russian Federal Archive Agency Andrey Artizov said the cooperation between the two archives was very good, and that there would be more joint projects.

The same collection will be published in Russia in two months, he pointed out.

Director of the Russian State Archive Natalya Tomilina said the collection included documents from the Yugoslav Archive and RGANI that provided insight into the complicated and at times dramatic relations between the USSR and the former Yugoslavia.

The collection includes recently declassified documents from the N.S. Krushchev fund (RGANI) and Yugoslav Archive.

Those are records of meetings and discussions between Soviet and Yugoslav delegations led by Stalin, Khrushchev and Tito both in Yugoslvaia and the USSR, notes from the leaders' conversations with government officials and poticial figures, reports from ambassadors to Russia and discussions between the two countries' foreign ministers.