Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday received Ambassador of Kazakhstan Nurbach Rustemov, who handed to him invitations from Kazakhstan's president and PM to visit the country.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to campaign to halt European Union membership talks with Turkey if he is again elected as French head of state in next year's presidential elections.

"It was time that someone told Turkey its place is in Asia," Sarkozy said.  

President Francois Hollande said on Sept. 26 that France will completely shut down "the Jungle" migrant camp in Calais and called on London to help deal with the plight of thousands of people whose dream is ultimately to get to Britain. 

BELGRADE - Imposing sanctions on Moscow would be fatal for Serbia itself, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin told the Vecernje novosti daily in an interview.

"We see that the Serbian leaders are not considering such an option at all, and many EU member states are also looking for a possibility to abandon the sanctions," he said.

Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin comfortably won a parliamentary election, early results showed on Monday. The ruling United Russia party won 51 percent in Sunday’s election, according to a preliminary central election commission tally after a quarter of the votes had been counted.

BELGRADE - Imposing sanctions on Moscow would be fatal for Serbia itself, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin told the Vecernje novosti daily in an interview.

"We see that the Serbian leaders are not considering such an option at all, and many EU member states are also looking for a possibility to abandon the sanctions," he said.

BELGRADE - US President Barack Obama has compared his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein, implying that Putin rigs popularity polls in his own favor.

A councilor from the ruling Polish Law and Justice Party in the town of Poznan has accused the local zoo of being "a Russian agent."

Michal Grzes has accordingly submitted a formal question to the mayor where he claims that the zoo is implementing "a foreign power's strategy" - specifically, that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin has said that the West negates the right of the people to self-determination in Crimea, while referring to it in the case of Kosovo.

The Russian president spoke for Bloomberg when he said that "nothing can be done against the will of the people," but that "it seems that some of our partners fail to understand this."

Putin’s official presidential car was involved in head-on horror crash in Moscow, killing Russian President’s “favorite chauffeur” with over 40 years’ experience.

Shocking footage of the lethal crash has been released by Russian media. In the clip, the Russian President’s official black BMW can be seen speeding down a Moscow highway before another vehicle smashes into it.