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FILE - In this Friday, March 21, 2014 file photo, Baylor's Isaiah Austin adjusts his glasses during a second-round game against Nebraska in the NCAA college basketball tournament, in San Antonio. Former Baylor standout Isaiah Austin has arrived in Serbia on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 after being cleared to play basketball again, 2½ years after he was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome during a physical before the NBA draft. Austin, who played for the Bears from 2012-14, has signed with FMP Belgrade with a view to joining regional champions Red Star Belgrade next season. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)

NBA hopeful, stricken by illness, returns to basketball

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Serbia buys 9 Airbus choppers after Russian jet donation

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Russia arms Serbia amid tensions with NATO

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 3, 2002 file photo, a KLA-Kosovo Liberation Army honor guard stands besides the coffins of, from right, Ylli Bytyqi, Agron Bytyqi and Mehmet Bytyqi, during a wake held in the Bronx borough of New York City. A brother of the slain Bytyqi brothers accused Serbia's leaders on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, of protecting the killers and refusing to bring them to justice despite repeated pledges to U.S. officials to do so. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin, File)

Brother of 3 Americans slain in Serbia in 1999 seeks justice

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Politician indicted of war crimes related to Kosovo war

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Austria’s players react after scoring against Wales during their World Cup Group D qualifying soccer match at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Arnautovic twice comes to Austria’s rescue in draw vs Wales

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In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 photo, humanitarian aid delivered from Russia in a warehouse is stored in a &quot;Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center&quot; near an airport in the town of Nis, Serbia. Some Western NGOs and military analysts say the Russians have created a thinly disguised military base that is eavesdropping on American military interests in the Balkans. While Serbia is still close to Russia, its neighbors are increasingly distrustful of Moscow’s intentions and presence, especially ex-Soviet bloc states like Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, which suffered under iron fist communist rule for decades after World War II. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Inside Russian ‘spy base’ in the Balkans

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

United States' Kim Hill reacts after losing a women's semifinal volleyball match against Serbia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

No. 1 U.S. to play for bronze in volleyball after falling to Serbia

By Janie McCauley - Associated Press

United States' DeAndre Jordan, center, scramble for a rebound with Serbia's Vladimir Stimac, right, during a men's basketball game at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

U.S. men’s basketball team survives another scare

By Tom Withers - Associated Press

Serbia guard Ana Dabovic reaches in and fouls United States guard Sue Bird (6) during the first half of a women's basketball game at the Youth Center at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

U.S. rolls on, routs Serbia in women’s basketball

By Doug Feinberg - Associated Press

Serbia's Sonja Petroic (5) and Jelena Miovanovic (9) react as Canada's Miah-Marie Langlois, left center, jumps into the arms of teammate Kia Nurse (5) and Miranda Ayim (9) leaps to celebrate winning their preliminary round match at the 2016 Summer Olympics Monday Aug. 8, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

Rally time: Nurse helps Canada come back, beat Serbia 71-67

By TERESA M. WALKER - Associated Press

Work crews clean the basketball floor during an off day for women's basketball at the Youth Center at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. The women's competition begins on Saturday. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Spain holds off Olympic newcomer Serbia 65-59

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Migrants walk in the mud in an improvised camp on the border line between Macedonia and Serbia near the northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, Friday, March 11, 2016. About 1,500 refugees remain stranded at the Macedonian border with Serbia as the borders on the Balkan migrant route are closing. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Pro-Russian parties in Serbia seek anti-NATO referendum

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The opposition set up tents in front of the government building in Pristina, Kosovo, to continue protests to bring down the government. The protests decry EU-brokered deals with Serbia and Montenegro, which they say breach Kosovo's constitution. (Valerie Plesch/The Washington Times)

Kosovo erupts in chaos as opposition pushes more Serbian power

By Valerie Plesch - Special to The Washington Times

This June 2, 2013, file photo shows actor Steven Seagal looking on as he waits for a news conference of the U.S. congressional delegation to Russia in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Steven Seagal, American action hero, gets Serbian citizenship

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Protester run from tear gas in Kosovo capital Pristina as clashes broke out after the arrest of a prominent opposition politician Albin Kurti on Monday, Oct. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) ** FILE **

Atifete Jahjaga, Kosovo president, meets with politicians to resolve crisis

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A group of migrants walk on the road near a border line between Serbia and Croatia, near the village of Berkasovo, Serbia, Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Thousands stranded on borders of new European migrant route

By Amer Cohadzic - Associated Press

Police officers organize groups of migrants after they arrive from Croatia in Sredisce ob Dravi, Slovenia, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Hungary shut down its border with Croatia to the free flow of migrants, prompting Croatia to redirect thousands of people toward its border with Slovenia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Thousands stranded on new migrant route through Europe

By RADUL RADOVANOVIC - Associated Press

Illustration on Serbia's role in world peace by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

ALEKSANDAR VUCIC: Toward a strengthened Serbian-American partnership

By Aleksandar Vucic

Hungarian police use pepper spray at the &quot;Horgos 2&quot; border crossing into Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. Small groups of migrants continued to sneak into Hungary on Wednesday, a day after the country sealed its border with Serbia and began arresting people trying to breach the razor-wire barrier, while a first group arrived in Croatia seeking another way into the European Union. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Hungarian police clash with migrants at Serbian border

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and VANESSA GERA - Associated Press