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Russia was informed over the weekend of Bulgaria's decision not to give clearance to Russian planes loaded with humanitarian aid for Syria, Moscow's Embassy in Sofia has said.

"An official notice arrived to us back in the weekend," Interfax quotes Evgeniya Suslova, press officer at the Russian Embassy, as saying.

NUNS has protested in the strongest terms the decision of Russian authorities to deny entry to a journalist.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) said it "expects the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian embassy to explain why Stevan Dojcinovic was not able to stay in that country," a statement said.

Russia's Lavrov to visit Belgrade on Friday

BELGRADE -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Serbia on Friday, May 15, Tanjug said it learned from the Russian embassy on Tuesday.

Party collecting signatures against anti-Russian sanctions

BELGRADE -- The Serb People's Party (SNP) has launched a campaign to collect signatures against Serbia "introducing sanctions against Russia."

The Russian embassy sent a diplomatic note to Montenegro's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration on Thursday, demanding an explanation after the billboards appeared in Podgorica last week. 

Montenegro, once a close ally of Russia, is among the countries facing Russian counter-measures, having joined Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its role in the Ukraine crisis.

On Wednesday, Russia declared a one-year ban on the import of agricultural products from those countries that had either imposed sanctions against it, or had supported those measures.

Montenegro to be affected by Russian sanctions

PODGORICA -- Montenegro, which previously joined EU sanctions against Russia, is now among the countries targeted by Russian counter measures.

On Wednesday, Russia declared a one-year ban on import of some agricultural products from those states that imposed sanctions against it, or joined those measures.

"Russia does not have spies in Montenegro"

PODGORICA -- The Russian embassy in Podgorica has denied allegations that Russia has its intelligence officers in the Agency for National Security of Montenegro.

The claims were made earlier in a report published by U.S. news agency Associated Press (AP).

BRATUNAC – A central manifestation to commemorate 22 years since a crime against Serbs in the Middle Drina valley in Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), where Muslim forces killed 3,267 Serb civilians and soldiers during a four-year war, was held in the RS town of Bratunac Saturday.

An irate mob smashed the Russian embassy's windows in Kiev and threw a Molotov cocktail against its walls June 14 in the wake of the downing by pro-Kremlin rebels of a military plane that killed 49 troops.