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The visit to Russia by Serbia's president Aleksandar Vučić in December 2017 was hailed by Politika as a symbolic ending of ″decades of stagnation in relations″. [67] In November 2019 Serbian security services revealed activities of Russian intelligence operatives who were meeting and passing money to Serbian army officials.
Foreign relations of Serbia are formulated and executed by the Government of Serbia through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Serbia established diplomatic relations with most world nations – 189 states in total – starting with the United Kingdom (1837) and ending most recently with Marshall Islands (2024).
Serbia's deputy prime minister followed up on a meeting with Russia's spy chief in Moscow by accusing Western intelligence agencies on Friday of trying to destabilise the country by backing months ...
Relations between Serbia and Russia date back centuries and remain cordial today, although Serbia is also trying to join the European Union, which condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Serbia refused to join international sanctions against Russia following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In response, the European Parliament passed a resolution that stated in part it "strongly regrets Serbia’s non-alignment with EU sanctions against Russia, which damages its EU accession process."
Serbia is a candidate for European Union membership, but has maintained friendly relations with Moscow. Vulin, who is openly pro-Russian, was appointed spy chief for the Balkan state last year.
While condemning the invasion, Serbia refused to back sanctions against Russia. [19] Serbia did not impose sanctions. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said the National Security Council concluded the Republic of Serbia considers "very wrong the violation of territorial integrity of a number of countries including Ukraine."
In the 1750s, in a re-settlement initiated by Austrian Colonel Ivan Horvat, a vast number of Orthodox Serbs, mostly from territories controlled by the Habsburg monarchy (the Serbian Grenzers), settled in Russia's military frontier region of New Serbia (with the centre in Novomirgorod, mainly in the territory of present-day Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukraine), as well as in Slavo-Serbia (now mainly ...