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The US Department of State has approved a potential sale of Patriot air defense systems to Romania worth USD 3.9 billion.

This was announced by the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Sputnik reported.

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The US Senate is very much concerned about the Russian-Serbian disaster relief center in Serbia's Nis, which US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Hoyt Brian Yee calls "a special center for espionage or other nefarious activities."

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Serbia will have a good government - but the conditions set before it will be such that the country will never join the EU, says Dmitry Rogozin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan aboard an installation vessel on June 23, telling him that work on the Turkish Stream pipeline has started in its deep-water section.

"Our projects with Turkey are developing in a way unlike they are with our many other partners," Putin said, according to the Sputnik new agency.

Former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton "could become an adviser to the Serbian president," Sputnik has reported.

Aleksandar Vucic, however, says that they "did not discuss this."

The "love story" between the United States and the KLA has been strengthened by a common interest, Russia's Sputnik is reporting.

For that reason, 18 years on, "it can be said that it has entered the mature phase."

BELGRADE- Outgoing Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Thursday he would put forward at least five or six people as members of a national council to be tasked with cooperation with Russia and China.

Speaking to Sputnik, Nikolic, who is set to retire on May 31, said he would chair the council without fee.

The National Council for Cooperation with Russia and China will be officially established this week, Sputnik is reporting on Tuesday.

The Council will be headed by President Tomislav Nikolic, whose term in office expires at the end of May.

Autonomous DSS party leader Andreja Mladenovic should soon be elected as mayor of Belgrade, replacing Sinisa Mali, Sputnik is reporting.

According to the Russian agency, Mladenovic, who currently serves as deputy mayor, is for the moment considered as the only candidate in the ruling circles.