Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has stated that the United States and the United Kingdom will soon impose sanctions on the Serbian oil company NIS, in which Russia's Gazprom holds more than 50% of the shares.

Ten days after the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced that the United States would impose sanctions on Petroleum Industry of Serbia (NIS), the U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Christopher Hill, stated there were no indications that such sanctions would take place.

Gazprom and its subsidiary Gazprom Neft own 6.15% and 50% of NIS respectively, with the remainder of the shares belonging to the government and other smaller shareholders. #EuropeNews

Aleksandar Vučić's pledge contrasts with a video he released on Tuesday, in which he accused foreign powers of financing the protests. #EuropeNews

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Dec. 22, Russian propaganda news agency TASS reports. The meeting focused on gas transit and international agenda.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić accused Albanian PM Albin Kurti of attempting to "remove the Serbian List as the only political opponent".

He dismissed comparisons made by critics to ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, stating, ‘If they think I’m Assad, and that I’ll run away somewhere, I will not’

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico is now visiting Russia to meet with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. Source: Pavel Zarubin, a Russian propagandist, writes TASS, as reported by European Pravda Details: Dmitry Peskov,

A wave of protests has been sweeping across Serbia for over a month. The protests were triggered by a roof collapse at the Novi Sad railway station on 1 November, which resulted in 15 fatalities. Initially,

Britain and the EU would likely follow Washington in introducing sanctions against NIS, Serbian president says in TV interview.

Kosovo's election appeals authority on Wednesday cancelled a ban on the main party of the ethnic Serb minority, allowing it to field candidates in the upcoming parliamentary election.