China’s Xi Jinping visits Serbia on anniversary of 1999 NATO bombing
Belgrade, Serbia Reuters Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Serbia on Tuesday evening escorted by MIG-29 jets in a tightly secured visit coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the NATO bombing of China’s embassy in which three Chinese journalists were killed. Belgrade, after France, is the second stop on Xi’s first visit to Europe in […]
Serbian elections marred by President’s involvement, vote buying – observers
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters Serbia’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) gained an unfair advantage in snap parliamentary elections through media bias, the improper influence of President Aleksandar Vucic and voting irregularities such as vote buying, an international monitoring mission said on Monday. The populist SNS won 46.72 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s elections, according to […]
Serbia’s ruling SNS leads in parliamentary vote, preliminary results show
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters The ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of President Aleksandar Vucic is in the lead in a snap election on Sunday with 46.6 per cent of votes, according to a projection by pollsters Ipsos and CeSID. The opposition Serbia Against Violence (SPN) alliance is set to come second with 23 per cent, while the […]
Serbia-Montenegro tensions escalate amid church dispute
Belgrade, SerbiaAP Serbia’s President has pledged to protect Serbs in Montenegro who he says are threatened by the possible formation of an independent Orthodox Church in the small state, as tensions escalated between the two former Balkan allies. President Aleksandar Vucic said after meeting Wednesday with the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade […]