Tag: Aleksandar Vucic

NATO Bolsters Kosovo Mission After Poll Sparks Clashes With Country’s Serbs

Recent days have seen another political flare-up in Eastern Europe—this time in Kosovo, where ethnic Serbs in the country’s north recently came to blows with NATO peacekeepers. Serbia’s military has since been deployed near the border with Kosovo, while NATO has announced plans to reinforce its Kosovo peacekeeping force (KFOR). In 2008, Kosovo—with U.S. backing—declared…


Serbia Agrees to New 3-year Gas Supply Contract With Russia

BELGRADE—Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday he had agreed a new three-year gas supply contract in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I can not speak about the price now, all details will be agreed with Gazprom,” Vucic told reporters. Vucic said that he had agreed with Putin that the price of…


Serbia’s Incumbent President Vucic Set to Win Second Term

BELGRADE—Serbia’s incumbent President Aleksandar Vucic is set to win the presidential vote on Sunday with 59.8 percent of the votes, according to a projection by pollsters Ipsos and CeSID, based on a sample of the partial polling station count. Zdravko Ponos, a retired army general representing the Alliance for Victory coalition, is set to come…