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Putin Congratulates Bulgaria's Rumen Radev on Presidential Election Win

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Bulgaria's President-elect Rumen Radev on his victory in the vote on Sunday.

"The head of the Russian state has marked a significant potential for further development of Russian-Bulgarian relations based on the centuries-long traditions of friendship, of cultural and spiritual proximity," the Kremlin's website quotes Putin as saying.

Tito disappeared in 1937, Yugoslavia was led by a Russian agent - FBI documents

BELGRADE - On April 20 1955, Marijan John Markul entered the FBI's Los Angeles office and told a shocking story. The man who then introduced himself as Marshal Josip Broz Tito was not actually him, but a Russian agent who assumed the identity of Tito after Josip Broz disappeared in Russia in 1937.

Putin Congratulates Trump on US Election Victory

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his result in the US Election.

In a cable quoted by the Kremlin's press office, he has expressed hope to work with Trump to bring Moscow-Washington relations out of the crisis.

Putin has also wished that global issues and challenges should be addressed in a joint manner after Trump becomes president.

Ugly politics

In the latest and final public opinion polls published by the New York Times/CBS News on Thursday ahead of the US elections on Tuesday, more than eight in 10 respondents claimed to be repulsed by the campaign. The majority also said they consider both of the leading candidates to be dishonest and hold an unfavorable general view of them.

Wesley Clark, US generals "concerned" over possible ties between Trump and Russia

BELGRADE - A group of 62 former senior military officials in the United States, including retired general Wesley Clark, expressed on Wednesday concern about the potential link between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes Serbian daily "Kurir".

Vitsas: Claims that Greece wanted to print drachmas are "nonsense"

Deputy Defense Minister Dimitris Vitsas has dismissed  as "nonsense," the claim that Vladimir Putin was asked by Greek officials in 2015 if Athens could print drachmas in Russia.

Speaking to Real FM radio on Friday, he said that it was a non issue as "Syriza never discussed the printing of money."                    

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