Dmitry Medvedev

The campaign website of Russian President Vladimir Putin who will be running for the nation's highest office as an independent candidate this coming March got started at putin2018.ru.

According to Elena Shmeleva, co-chair of Putin's campaign office, plans are to make this website as informative and convenient as possible.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has received letters with greetings for the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays from numerous officials, the presidential press office said in a statement.

From the Russian Federation, Vucic received greetings from President Vladimir Putin, PM Dmitry Medvedev and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

Relations between Russia and the US may be at a lower level than they were during the Cold War. This was stated by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, quoted by TASS.

Authorities in Russia reported that the cost of organizing the World Cup in the country in 2018 is USD 600 million more than projected.

The campaign of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the Russian province before the presidential elections in the spring is bordering civil disobedience, Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes.

Russia's Agriculture Ministry and Russia's agriculture safety watchdog are considering partially resuming tomato imports from Turkey in October until April or May next year, the Kommersant daily reported on Sept. 11. 

Russians shunned the polls on Sept. 10 for local elections which are the last vote before the presidential elections in March next year, with very low turnout rates as the opposition cried foul.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lashed new US sanctions as a "full-fledged economic war" on Moscow, saying they crushed hopes for repairing ties and demonstrated President Donald Trump's "total weakness ... in the most humiliating way'', Economic Times reports. 

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that the United States declared a full-fledged trade war by introducing new anti-Russia sanctions, adding that there is no chance that the relations between the two states will improve.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic received Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin on Wednesday in Belgrade.

On behalf of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and on his own behalf, the diplomat congratulated Brnabic on her recent appointment and wished her successful work, the government announced.