Federation Council of Russia

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will pay a visit to the Russian Federation on December 22-23 to discuss with State Duma officials improvement of bilateral relations.

According to a statement from her office, Gojkovic will meet with State Duma President Sergey Naryshkin and then address the State Duma deputies.

The Russian parliament's upper chamber voted on Wednesday to revoke the right that it had granted President Vladimir Putin in March to order a military intervention in Ukraine, where Kiev is struggling to quell a rebellion by Russian speakers in the east.
   

MOSCOW - The Federation Council of Russia, upper house of the Russian parliament, ratified on Wednesday the agreements on military cemeteries with Serbia and Slovenia, creating the legal foundation for the maintenance of Russian military cemeteries, monuments and memorials in the territory of these two countries.