Serbia news

Serbia and breakaway Kosovo have restored direct flights between their capitals, after they were stopped during a bloody conflict two decades ago.

Lawmakers in Serbia and Montenegro punched and shoved each other as two separate fights broke out in the nations’ parliaments over the adoption of a law on the ownership of property by churches.

NATO would not have bombed Serbia in 1999 if Vladimir Putin had been the Russian president then, said Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic praising friendly relations between Moscow and Belgrade.

Work to extend the Turkish Stream pipeline in Serbia is expected to be finished in the coming weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić.

The government in Belgrade said it would not change its policy towards Moscow after a video of a suspected “Russian spy” emerged online. Serbians were quick to point out their country has been riddled by NATO spies for years.

A new and strangely timed NATO video paints a flattering – and entirely fraudulent – picture of the alliance’s mission in Kosovo, a Serbian province it occupied in 1999 that now styles itself an independent state.