Serbia

BELGRADE, December 25. /TASS/: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Serbian presidential press office announced Saturday. During the call, Vucic thanked Putin for Kornet anti-tank missile systems and raised the issue of additional gas supplies for Serbia.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Environmental protesters blocked roads in Serbia for a third consecutive weekend to oppose plans for lithium mining, despite a bid by the country’s populist government to defuse the demonstrations by agreeing to the key demands of organizers.

Several thousand people braved rain and cold weather Saturday to halt traffic in the capital, Belgrade, and in other cities and towns in the Balkan nation.

LAJKOVAC, Serbia (AP) — Belquis Gonzales and her family enjoy something close to celebrity status in a small town in Serbia, where they live after fleeing Cuba five years ago.

While most emigrants from the Caribbean island go to the United States or Spanish-speaking countries, Gonzales and her husband chose Serbia — a rare country in Europe for which Cubans do not need visas - and arrived there via Russia.

BELGRADE, December 9. /TASS/: The Serbian government and Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom signed an agreement on the construction of a nuclear technology center in the republic, the press service of Serbian Innovation Minister Nenad Popovic announced on Thursday.

"The Serbian government and the state corporation Rosatom signed a general framework agreement on the construction of the nuclear technology center and an agreement on the establishment of a joint venture that will implement this project in Serbia," the statement says.

BELGRADE, Dec 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of people blocked roads across Serbia in an anti-government protest against two new laws that environmentalists say will let foreign companies exploit local resources.

Serbia’s government has offered mineral resources to companies including China’s Zijin copper miner and Rio Tinto. Green activists say the projects will pollute land and water in the Balkan nation.

The protest is a headache for the ruling Peoples’ Progressive Party led by the President Aleksandar Vucic ahead of parliamentary and presidential election next year.

BELGRADE, November 22. /TASS/: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday he will have talks with Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi.

"Before my visit to Sochi — I will go to Sochi, not to Moscow — I will meet with [Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina] Milorad Dodik. He represents another country. We are not going together," he said when asked whether Dodik will also take part in the talks with Putin.

ZRENJANIN, Serbia (AP) — They are shivering in barracks without heat, going hungry and have no money. They say their passports have been taken by their Chinese employer and that they are now stuck in a grim plainland in Serbia with no help from local authorities.

These are the Vietnamese workers who are helping build the first Chinese car tire factory in Europe. The Associated Press visited the construction site in northern Serbia where some 500 of the workers are living in harsh conditions as China’s Shandong Linglong Tire Co. sets up the huge facility.

BELGRADE, November 16. /TASS/: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said during his tour of the armaments exhibition on the occasion of Army Day that he was grateful to Russia for the delivery of military hardware to the republic, in particular, T-72MS tanks.

BELGRADE, November 15. /TASS/: Serbia is in the process of registering Russia’s Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccine and will soon become Europe’s first nation to use it, the press service of Nenad Popovic, Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of innovations and technological development, said on Monday after his meeting with Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov in Dubai.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — At the main hospital in Romania’s capital, the morgue ran out of space for the dead in recent days, and doctors in Bulgaria have suspended routine surgeries so they can tend to a surge in COVID-19 patients. In the Serbian capital, the graveyard now operates an extra day during the week in order to bury all the bodies arriving.