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BELGRADE- Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic and the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, agreed Wednesday that the cooperation between Serbian and Russian security services should be improved further.

BELGRADE - President Tomislav Nikolic met with the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, on Wednesday to discuss the present political and security situation in the region and worldwide and models of military technical cooperation between Serbia and Russia.

BELGRADE - An exhibition of photographs titled Children of Russia: Reflecting on a Century will open in the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade Thursday.

Visitors will have an opportunity to see portraits of people from the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century as viewed through the camera.

BELGRADE - The Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Patrushev, on Wednesday proposed to the Serbian Interior Ministry to consider working on a memorandum of understanding to create the required formal conditions for regular communication on security matters of mutual interest.

Turkey's Air Forces have been unable to carry out aerial campaigns in Syria as part of the Euphrates Shield operation since Oct. 22, as Syria has activated its air defense systems over the flight of Turkish warplanes into Syrian airspace. 

Have you seen the Putinphone? Caviar, a Russian jewelry company, has designed a limited edition of them on the occasion of the 63rd birthday of the Russian president.  It looks like the iPhone 6, except Putin's face is encrusted in gold on the back, as is the seal of the Russian presidency and a few lines of the country's national anthem.

MOSCOW - Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev on Friday announced the start of free trade zone talks between the Eurasian Economic Union and Israel and Serbia, respectively.

For the first time since its inception in 2006, Russia will not be a member of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after being narrowly beaten by Croatia in a vote. Saudi Arabia was successfully re-elected, despite criticism from human rights organizations.

Syrian rebels began a counter-attack against the Syrian army and its allies on Oct. 28 aiming to break a weeks-long siege on eastern Aleppo, insurgents said. 

Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev has announced that oil was found in the Khan Asparuh block during offshore drilling earlier this year.

Donchev has not elaborated his remarks at the opening of a tripartite meeting of government, employers, and unions.

A source of Inews.bg (a website of Novinite Group) working in the public sector has confirmed the news.