Alexander Chepurin

BELGRADE - The festival of the Russian-Serbian culture has opened at Belgrade gallery Progres, and the visitors will have an opportunity to see and buy Russian crafts products.

The festival was opened on Tuesday by Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin, who expressed hope that one day Serbian crafts products will be presented in Russia.

BELGRADE - A laying of new tracks at the railway station in Belgrade's neighborhood of Krnjaca Monday marked the beginning of the reconstruction and modernization of a 15-kilometer railway from Belgrade to Pancevo in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.

BELGRADE - Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin said on Tuesday that it is possible to compensate Serbia for some of the losses resulting from the abandonment of the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline.

S. Stream "sobering for Serbia," says German paper

BERLIN -- It was "sobering for Serbia to learn that in the NIS sale contract had no clause on compensation or extra payment in case of the South Stream pipeline failure."

This is what German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung writes in an article it dedicated to relations between Serbia and Russia.

BELGRADE - Russia will fulfill all obligations regarding its gas supply to Serbia this winter, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin said on Wednesday, and blamed the EU for the abandonment of the South Stream project.

Russia will do everything to avoid any complications with the gas supply to Serbia, Chepurin told reporters in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin said Wednesday that Russia held a firm stance on not recognizing Kosovo, adding that it was a tradition that would not change.

Russian patriarch arrives in Serbia

BELGRADE -- Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived on Friday on a three-day visit to Serbia.

While in the country, he will consecrate a monument to Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and meet with the top religious and state officials.

BELGRADE - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has arrived on Friday on a three-day visit to Serbia where, as announced earlier, he will consecrate the monument to Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and meet with the country's top religious and state officials.

BELGRADE - Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin confirmed on Wednesday that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will arrive in Serbia on November 14, and expressed hope that this visit will be as successful as the one made recently by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic and Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin conferred on the two countries' cooperation on Monday.

The two officials discussed further promotion of cooperation in both bilateral and multilateral aspect, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released in a statement.