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BELGRADE - This year's Afro Festival will be held at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade June 20-22, the organisers have stated.

BELGRADE - The United States government has so far provided and approved flood disaster relief funds for Serbia totaling USD 2,060,000, the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade announced.

The USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) approved USD 1.8 million to be disbursed over the next four months as humanitarian aid to 27 flood-affected municipalities in Serbia.

BELGRADE – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that neither he nor the government was responsible for the recent removal of a blog from the website of the Belgrade-based Blic daily and shutting down of the radio show Pescanik’s website, stressing that the OSCE mission had not been telling the truth when it had warned about censorship in the country and he was waiting for the organi

BELGRADE - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will arrive in Belgrade on Monday for a two-day visit to discuss with Serbian officials the relations between the two countries and new directions of cooperation.

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will welcome Lavrov at the airport Nikola Tesla, the Serbia Foreign Ministry stated on Friday.

BELGRADE - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will arrive in Belgrade on Monday for a two-day visit to discuss with Serbian officials the relations between the two countries and new directions of cooperation.

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will welcome Lavrov at the airport Nikola Tesla, the Serbia Foreign Ministry stated on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian agricultural company MK Group signed on Friday a EUR 25 million loan agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to be used for agribusiness development.

The agreement was signed by MK Group President Miodrag Kostic and IFC's Associate Director Carsten Mueller.

BELGRADE - The outdoor summer film festival Filmstreet opens at Studentski Park in Belgrade on Friday with Great Gatsby from 1974, the agency Communis, which organises the festival, has said.

For the fourth year running, the admittance-free outdoor summer film festival will turn Belgrade streets, parks and squares into cinemas.

BELGRADE - Finnish textile service company Lindstrom will open a branch office in Serbia this year.

Serbia will be the 23rd country where Lindstrom will sell its products and services which include catering and renting workwear, its maintenance, transport and replacement, reads the company's statement.

BELGRADE - Head of the Delegate Office of German Industry and Commerce for Serbia Martin Knapp said on Thursday he was very optimistic about Serbia's business potential, adding that the country had to convince German companies to come and start their business there.

BERLIN - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday after a meeting with a number of German companies in Berlin that one large company had said it would create more than 3,000 jobs in Serbia by 2016.