Sergey Shoygu

BELGRADE - Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu has arrived in Belgrade, where he will attend commemorations of the city's WWII Liberation Day.

Shoygu was welcomed at the Nikola Tesla Airport by Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Russia are carefully building and maintaining special relations, Serbian and Russian Defence Ministers Aleksandar Vulin and Sergey Shoygu agreed at a meeting in Belgrade on Friday.

Vulin and Shoygu - who is in Belgrade for the city's WWII Liberation Day commemorations - met in the old army general staff building.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM Ivica Dacic has announced he would next week take an initiative with PM Aleksandar Vucic to solve the diplomatic status of the Serbian-Russian humanitarian centre in Nis.

A leading Serbian military expert has cast strong doubts on the plans of the Serbian Defence Ministry to depoly troops in de-mining operations in Syria with Russia by the end of 2018.

Aleksandar Radic, an expert on military issues, told BIRN that Minister Zoran Djordjevic's pledge was a "wrong, easily given political promise".

On Jan. 11, 2017, Intelligence Online — a professional journal covering the world’s intelligence services — revealed that the pilots of Air Tractor attack planes flying from Al Khadim air base in Libya are private contractors working for Erik Prince, the founder of the company formerly known as Blackwater.

MOSCOW - As a token of support, Russia will give Serbia six MiG-29 planes as a gift, and the three stages of upgrading them will cost us 180-230 mln euros, PM Aleksandar Vucic said after a meeting with Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu Wednesday, Sputnik reported.

If you calculate the costs of buying such planes, you will see they would cost us around 600 mln euros, he said.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Wednesday PM Aleksandar Vucic's agreement with Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu was of historic significance for Serbia.

Vucic was in Moscow earlier in the day to finalise a deal on Serbia's acquisition of modern fighter planes and discuss other aspects of military economic and military education cooperation.

MOSCOW - The six MiG-29 planes Serbia is set to acquire from Russia should arrive in three months at the latest, after which they will be upgraded in three stages, Serbian Defence Minister Zoran Djordjevic said Wednesday.

MOSCOW - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic, who is on a one-day visit to Moscow, on Wednesday toured a Russian air force training range, where he attended a presentation of Russian-made airplanes and military equipment.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic will be on a one-day visit to Moscow on Wednesday to meet with Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu.

Vucic and Shoygu will finalise agreements on Serbia's purchase of modern fighter planes and discuss all other aspects of military economic and military education cooperation, Vucic's office announced.