Dusan Bajatovic

NOVI SAD - Serbian businessman Milan Mandaric, former owner of football clubs including Leicester City, Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth, Nice, Standard Liege and Charleroi, is set to be unveiled as vice-president of Serbian outfit Vojvodina Novi Sad.

The head of Serbian state-owned company Srbijagas, Dusan Bajatovic, and the head of Hungary's MVM CEEnergy Laszlo, Zoltan Fritsch, signed a contract on Tuesday to establish a new joint gas company, SERBHUNGAS.

BELGRADE - After a meeting with Srbijagas Director Dusan Bajatovic, Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic said a natural gas interconnection with Bulgaria was due to be completed before the start of the next heating season.

As a symbol of work, large infrastructure projects and investments, everything that has been done in Serbia since the SNS was the main pillar of the Serbian government, the Arena is adorned with the "Bagi Radia" excavator.

Serbia on Jan. 1 said it had begun delivering natural gas to Europe through the TurkStream pipeline and a new route crossing Turkey and Bulgaria.

The 403-kilometer (250 miles) Serbian section was commissioned in a ceremony in Gospodjinci in the municipality of northern Zabalj.

The annual regional business forum is being held at Kopaonik Ski Resort in southwestern Serbia from March 1-4. On it, the director of the state-owned company Srbijagas Dusan Bajatovic revealed details about the Turkish Stream project and the country's gasification after its completion.

This will happen on February 13, Gazprom has announced, according to TASS.

The joint project company South Stream Serbia AG (51 percent owned by Gazprom, and 49 percent by Serbia) was established by Serbia and Russia in order to build the now abandoned South Stream gas pipeline, that was designed to diversify the supply of Russian gas to Europe, TASS said.

MOSCOW - Serbia and Russia signed several agreements after Tuesday's meeting between Presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Vladimir Putin, including a deal that will see an increase in Russian gas supplies to Serbia.

Representatives of the governments of Serbia and Russia signed in Moscow, on Tuesday a series of agreements on cooperation in various fields.

The Serbian government announced this, adding that the agreements were signed after the talks between two state delegations led by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Srbijagas has not slipped behind the schedule in the restructuring process, the public company's CEO Dusan Bajatovic said on Friday.

"Everything is ready for the enterprise to operate through two business units from July 1," Tanjug quoted him as saying.