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More than half of Serbian citizens (53 percent) believe that Serbia should not host military bases of any of the great powers.

That is according to a poll carried out by Demostat.

The survey found that 20 percent think that Russia should be allowed this, while two percent picked the US.

US State Department official Hoyt Bryan Yee thinks that "integration and transformation" of the Western Balkans is in the interests of Brussels, and the region.

Speaking in Bled, Slovenia, he added that the readiness for this on the part of EU institutions is what is currently missing.

Russian tourists to Greece increased by 16.5% in the first half of 2017, according to official data by the Russian Statistical Services (Rosstat). The data, analysed by Russian Tour Operators (ATOR), showed that the total number of Russians that travelled abroad amounted to 17.12 million, compared to 13.28 million last year.

Bulgaria is working on setting up a pilgrimage programme for Russians entitled 'On Bulgaria's Routes of Memory' in cooperation with the Russian Federal Tourism Agency and the Russian Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Ministry of Tourism told BIRN.

PM Ana Brnabic on Tuesday met on the margins of the Bled Strategic Forum with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Brian Hoyt Yee.

The Serbian government announced this on its website - adding, while quoting Brnabic - that "one of Serbia's foreign policy priorities is a continuation of the positive dynamics of relations with the United States of America."

PM Ana Brnabic on Tuesday met on the margins of the Bled Strategic Forum with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Brian Hoyt Yee.

The Serbian government announced this on its website - adding, while quoting Brnabic - that "one of Serbia's foreign policy priorities is a continuation of the positive dynamics of relations with the United States of America."

Azerbaijan's ruling elite ran a secret 2.5 billion euro ($2.9 billion) slush fund to pay off European politicians and launder money, according to an investigation by a group of European newspapers published on Sept. 5.

The Supreme Court of Croatia has confirmed the first instance decision of a local court to extradite Albanian citizen Ismail Morina to Serbia.

 Bulgarian border guards forced Turks living in European countries to pay bribes to be able to enter Turkey, European Parliament's Turkey rapporteur Kati Piri said in a report, quoted by Daily Sabah.

According to Piri, Turks traveling to Turkey on land through Bulgaria were forced to bribe the guards, who used "pressure and suppression" tactics.

The Croatian Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that Ismail Morina can be extradited to Belgrade, where he is wanted for allegedly flying a drone carrying the flag of a 'Greater Albania' at a Serbia-Albania football match in 2014 - an incident which caused a major row between the two countries.