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Serbian police guards the area prior the start of the European LGBTQ pride march in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Serbian police had banned Saturday's parade, citing a risk of clashes with far-right activists. (AP Photo/Vladimir Milovanovic)

Belgrade police clash with hooligans during Pride march

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

In this filephoto, participants carry large rainbow flag in front of the parliament building as they take part in the annual LGBT pride march in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. Serbia's police on Tuesday banned an international Pride march that is to be held later this week, citing a risk of clashes between gay rights activists and far-right opponents of a pan-European LGBTQ events planned for this week in Belgrade. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File) **FILE**

Organizers say Pride march will go on in Serbia despite ban

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, right, speaks with European Union envoy Miroslav Lajcak in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo soared anew late last month when Kosovo's government declared that Serb-issued identity documents and vehicle license plates would no longer be valid in Kosovo's territory, as Kosovo-issued ones are not valid in Serbia. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

EU official says Serbia, Kosovo agree on IDs in step forward

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Kosovo's Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kosovo's capital Pristina, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Wartime rivals Serbia and Kosovo are to hold high level crisis talks which the European Union mediators hope will de-escalate growing tensions in the Balkans, where Russia has been trying to further increase its influence amid the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Florent Bajrami)

EU to host Serbia-Kosovo talks in Brussels amid tensions

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds documents during a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 8, 2022. Serbia says that a planned visit by Russia's foreign minister to the Balkan country will not take place. The announcement followed reports that Serbia's neighbors, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro refused to allow Lavrov's plane to fly through their airspace to reach Serbia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Russian diplomat Lavrov cancels trip to Serbia; European countries close airspace to his plane

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

HQ-22 anti-aircraft systems, whose export version is known as FK-3, seen during the military exercises on Batajnica, military airport near Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Serbia on Saturday publicly displayed a recently delivered Chinese anti-aircraft missile system, raising concerns in the West and among some of Serbia's neighbors that an arms buildup in the Balkans could threaten fragile peace in the region. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia displays Chinese missiles amid concerns in Balkans

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) listens to a question during a press conference in the U.S. embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. A U.S. Senate delegation on Tuesday urged Serbia to join the rest of Europe and impose sanctions against Russia for its bloody carnage in Ukraine. Although Serbia voted in favor of three UN resolutions condemning the Russian aggression against Ukraine, it has not joined international sanctions against Moscow. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

U.S. urges Serbia to join sanctions against its ally Russia

Associated Press

A worker fixes an Air Serbia passenger plane at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Ukraine on Monday, April 18, 2022 rejected as baseless and false accusations made by Serbia's president that Ukraine's secret service is behind a series of hoax bomb threats against Air Serbia flights to Russia. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said foreign intelligence services of Ukraine and an unidentified European Union state &quot;are doing that.&quot; (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Ukraine rejects Serbian bomb threat claims on Russia flights

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FILE - A Y-20 transport aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force performs during the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2018, in Zhuhai city, southern China on Nov. 7, 2018. Media and military experts said Sunday, April 10, 2022, that six Chinese Air Force Y-20 transport planes landed at Belgrade's commercial airport early Saturday, reportedly carrying HQ-22 surface-to-air missile systems for the Serbian military.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

China makes semi-secret delivery of missiles to Serbia

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

A woman lays a bouquet of flowers at the foot of a statue of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Pristina, Kosovo, Thursday, March 24, 2022. A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia. Madeleine Albright was either loved or hated in the Balkans for her pivotal role during the southern European region's wars of the 1990s. Following the former U.S. secretary of state's death on Wednesday at age 84, how her legacy is viewed from the Balkans mostly depends on whether one was on the receiving or triggering end of the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Balkans split over Madeleine Albright’s wartime legacy

By Dustan Stojanovic - Associated Press

A woman measures a window before covering it with plastic sheets in a building damaged by a bombing the previous day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. As Russia intensified its effort to pound Mariupol into submission, its ground offensive in other parts of Ukraine has become bogged down. Western officials and analysts say the conflict is turning into a grinding war of attrition, with Russia bombarding cities.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) **FILE**

Live updates: France’s Macron speaks with Putin, Zelenskyy

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - A woman walks in front of the destroyed former Serbian army headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 24, 2010. Well before Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was using the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to ostensibly offer justification for the invasion of a sovereign European country. The Russian president has been particularly focused on NATO’s bombardment of Serbia in 1999 and the West’s acceptance of Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008. He claims both created an illegal precedent that shattered international law and order, apparently giving him an excuse to invade Ukraine. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Putin’s Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Defending men's champion Serbia's Novak Djokovic practices on Rod Laver Arena ahead of the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 12, 2022. Djokovic’s hopes of playing at the Australian Open were set back Sunday after a court dismissed the top-ranked tennis star’s appeal against a deportation order. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Ruled out: Australia deports Djokovic for being unvaccinated

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Novak Djokovic looks as his documents after landing in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Djokovic arrived in the Serbian capital following his deportation from Australia on Sunday after losing a bid to stay in the country to defend his Australian Open title despite not being vaccinated against COVID-19.(AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Djokovic returns home from Australia facing possible French Open ban

By Darko Bandic and Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Serbia's Novak Djokovic, right, stands with Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley for a trophy photo shoot following his win the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Feb 22, 2021. The No. 1-ranked Djokovic was denied entry at the Melbourne airport late Wednesday, Jan 5, 2022, after border officials canceled his visa for failing to meet its entry requirement that all noncitizens be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Hamish Blair) ** FILE **

Australian judge says Novak Djokovic can stay, but saga not over

By Rod McGuirk. Mark D. Baker - Associated Press

Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik during a Davis Cup quarter final match between Serbia and Kazakhstan at the Madrid Arena stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) **FILE**

Djokovic wins twice to lead Serbia to Davis Cup semifinals

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

People wait in line to receive a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. Russians are flocking to Serbia to receive Western-approved COVID-19 shots. Although Russia has its own vaccine known as Sputnik V, the shot has not been approved by international health authorities. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Russians flock to Serbia for Western-made COVID-19 vaccines

By Jovana Gec and Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

People walk past a mural in the colors of the Serbian flag in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Serbia has kicked off a new holiday celebrating national unity with a display of military power, triggering unease among its neighbors. The new holiday comes decades after similar calls for unity led to the bloody wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. Serbs in the region were told to display thousands of red, blue and white national flags wherever they live in the region or the world to mark “The Day of Serb Unity, Freedom and the National Flag.” Serbian officials are calling for the creation of a “Serb World,” or political unification of an estimated 1.3 million Serbs who live in Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Croatia with Serbia. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Serb unity day triggers worries across the Balkans

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

United States' Brittney Griner (15) grabs a rebound ahead of Serbia's Maja Skoric (24) during women's basketball semifinal game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Griner leads US to gold medal game with 79-59 win vs Serbia

By Doug Feinberg - Associated Press

United States players celebrate winning a point during the women's volleyball semifinal match between Serbia and United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

US women’s volleyball avenges loss to Serbia, reaches final

By Josh Dubow - Associated Press