An alleged participant in a coup in Montenegro, Nemanja Ristić, was seen in a photo with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, during his visit to Belgrade.

This was brought to the media’s attention by N1, a Serbian news agency.

As the Associated Press notes, Ristić himself has explained that he got into this photo "accidentally."

The photo also contains members of the Zavetniki movement, whose representatives told Radio Liberty’s Balkan Service that Ristić had no affiliation with their …

During the EU summit, the possibility of strengthening the sanctions against the Russian Federation was discussed, according to the Prime Minister of Poland, Beata Szydło.

"The first initiative came from the British Prime minister Theresa May. She offered to discuss the possibility of imposing new sanctions related to the events in Syria. This initiative has long been discussed but has not found enough support. But I am sure that we will return to this issue," the Polish Prime Minister said. …

The Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Nadiya Savchenko, on Thursday, December 15th, was expelled from the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) faction, as reported by the press service of Batkivshchyna. According to the statement, Savchenko was included in the electoral list during the elections in 2014 so as to free the former pilot from Russian captivity. However, "life has shown that the principles and political convictions of Savchenko do not coincide with that of Batkivshchyna," the statement read. The …

The resolution requested by the Netherlands on the introduction of additions to the text of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement was adopted at the European Union Summit, which took place on December 15 in Brussels. In the resolution, agreed upon at the Summit, the European Union legislatively entrenched the provision that Ukraine will not be granted EU candidate country status concurrent with the signing of the Association Agreement.

The majority of voters in the referendum that was held in early …

Russia's Ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, stated in an interview with Die Welt that Moscow is open to holding intensive mutual dialogue with the European Union on key foreign policy issues and that it is ready for military cooperation.

“It is possible to imagine that the Russian Army can participate in the operations of the European Union,” the diplomat stated. According to him, Moscow and Brussels are already closely cooperating in missions against pirates in Somalia, operations in the …