Russian PM meets with top Serbian officials

Welcome Vladimir! In Serbia you have a true friend, and a brother.
Please tell Tadic be more patriotic. While the US is going further and further in the hole, spending dollars they don't have on more military adventures, Putin and company are going to help Republika Srpska and Kosovo be free of foreign rulers. Just watch and see.
Cheers!

Welcome Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia. Lets talk about making us the energy hub in the region. That is exactly where the future lies.

FREEDOM

What's that you say?

You want Putin to blow down your door!

Besides an act of terrorism, what kind of show would you put on for Putin?

"hide and seek with Putin's watch"

How would you have the time to entertain Putin, when you are already entertaing the Americans at Camp Bondsteel?

100 % Albanian/Illyrian for generations!

Tung
(FREEDOM, 23 March 2011 13:36)

Do you deliver or is it for pick up only?

"I know the above-mentioned did not come to talk about Kosova, but how to milk Serbia.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 13:18)"

Well, you should know the feeling, right? Aren't the Yankees milking you guys now for Bondsteel and ..... body organs? And letting poor, poor Thaci take the rap? You have my condolence.

Dont hate us Serbs. If it was up to us & our leaders, we were too demoralized to defend KiM & RS. It was Putin who made our resistance possible. It was Putin who saved Russia single-handedly. He's almost messiah-like. Thank you Putin!

(FREEDOM, 23 March 2011 10:42)

Are you a half-breed or smth? No, he isnt welcome in Kosovo, he may enter but never be welcomed.

I read B92 to keep up to date but the comments have become childish.

Interesting that albanians are the first to comment articles here at B92. I guess there are a lot of jobless Kosovo albanians out there. Now that Putin is here ask him if he can find a job for you :)

Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia and welcome to see our beutiful churces and monasteries in Kosovo.

Lets be clear, The USA gave every type of support from political, monetary, coaltion building, and most importantly active MILITARY support to Kosova. Russia did absolutely nothing. The kind of supoprt that Russia is giving Serbia right now costs Russia nothing. They have nothing to lose by saying "Kosova is Serbias".

Wow, what great friends Serbia has. Tadic is practicaly pulling Putins pants down out of excitement, but the Russians didnt care enough to even defend you with their guns and bombs.

Russia will be Serbias friend as long as Serbia keeps giving them companies for NOTHING. As long as they can keep Serbia out of NATO they will be your "friends".

When push comes to shove, Russia has always cut and run from Serbia, and they only support Serbia when they have nothing to lose. When you look at all of this "support", its really Russia benefitting from Serbia. Did you ever notice how Russia only supports Serbia after the fact? True friends support you from the beginning to the end.

The Kosovars learned a long time ago the Russians cannot be trusted. Serbia didnt get the memo.

Mr Putin, you are also welcome in "Kosova" but first go via our government for granting you the entering of Kosova.

Tung

will be accompanied by Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller.


I know the above-mentioned did not come to talk about Kosova, but how to milk Serbia.

Yesterday Putin praised the Slovenians for looking after the graves of the Russian soldiers killed during WW1. Today in Belgrade he could add that there are very little of such graves in Yugoslavia because Serbians to compose 90% of the two Yugoslavian armies had set their country free before we stormed Beograd together. Outside the USSR only in Yugoslavia there was a real partisan movement. All other “how I won the war stories” were written in post war period. After the USSR and the USA combat losses which Yugoslavia has suffered in WW2 were 3-rd in the coalition ! Then France somehow found itself a heroic nation with a chair in UN SC while Serbs were later bombed as if they were children of Dr. Gebbels.

Hi Pejoni

Everybody is welcome in Kosova as long as they respect and honour the Kosovar constitutions & law.

100 % Albanian/Illyrian for generations!

Tung

I dont believe this visit will bring anything new to Serbia except some form of rhetoric and condemnation of western policies. Either way the EU states are being very clear with Serbia. Plot your course and choose your path in any way form or shape you desire. No matter which path Serbia chooses it still has to deal with the issues of Kosovo, Bosnia, and Croatia. The good news is that the days when the politicians in Belgrade decided to send tanks over the border are over and now they have to think long and hard how to solve this century old problems peacefully. Not an easy task for sure but not unsolvable either. I hope the Russian president ecourages Serbs to engage in peaceful and practical solutions. The region has seen enough desctruction.

I know the above-mentioned did not come to talk about Kosova, but how to milk Serbia.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 13:18)
--
No one has attempted to milk Serbia more than the West so not sure what you are on about. Russia is protecting KiM and supporting Serbia's position and not attempting to take it away. Big difference my friend.

Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia and welcome to see our beutiful churces and monasteries in Kosovo.
(MikeC, 23 March 2011 16:53)

Well he cannot enter Kosova without getting a permission from Kosova gov. full stop on your silly comment.

To beat this visit, kosovo has to get barak obama to visit pristina. Good luck trying to get that.
(JohnBoy, 23 March 2011 18:49)

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 20:22)

Nice friends (!)

http://www.iraqwar.org/natowarcrimes.htm

To beat this visit, kosovo has to get barak obama to visit pristina. Good luck trying to get that.
(JohnBoy, 23 March 2011 18:49)

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.

Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia and welcome to see our beutiful churces and monasteries in Kosovo.
(MikeC, 23 March 2011 16:53)

Well he cannot enter Kosova without getting a permission from Kosova gov. full stop on your silly comment.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 17:58)

Waoo, that must be such a feeling to be able to show this kind of power... Does this bring investors, I mean real investors, does this bring jobs, decrease enemployment etc etc etc...
Yes, stupid show must go on...

To beat this visit, kosovo has to get barak obama to visit pristina. Good luck trying to get that.

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 20:22)
--
Curious, did they ever find the person who stole Bush's watch?

(The Truth Chicago, 24 March 2011 16:37)
The only thing that the US/EU has invested is to keep the existing regime in power in Pristina - to maintain control over the population. Hey, I maybe wrong, but how much has the west invested in Kosovo again? I can’t recall how many industries have they opened up? Will this meeting in Baltimore improve things? Will Microsoft or Ford or GM or Boeing move some manufacturing to Kosovo?????? It costs the US/EU nothing to bleat BS about freedom and democracy in Kosovo.
NATO and its expansion is finished so you can keep it if you like. The Russians are happy keeping the stupid Americans busy spending more money they don’t have on trying regime change in Libya. Now the US knuckle heads are beginning to realize that the opposition in Libya is not the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan and it looks like a long and drawn out conflict that will go on for months and months (where did I hear “Mr President Iraq will be a walk over”?).
Talk about deluding one self.

I read B92 to keep up to date but the comments have become childish.
(urnrg, 23 March 2011 14:12)

You have the right to your own opinion just as this gentlemen does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBoYMNKa-8&feature=related

You have the right to your own opinion just as this gentlemen does.
[link]
(I love free speech, 23 March 2011 16:11)

Free speech is for the weak. The strong wait for Lukaschenko or Qadhafi to tell them what to say.

I read B92 to keep up to date but the comments have become childish.
(urnrg, 23 March 2011 14:12)

You are taking the words from my mouth, B92 should do a better job in censuring stupid and low level comments which have started appearing the last few months !

Putin is a snake and one should pay attention when dealing with him !
Serbia has certainly a good card to play, but nothing ever comes free from the Russian. Yes some, like my friend Zoran would argue that EU isn't any better... yes to a certain extend but there is still an important difference when it comes to business ethics....
At the end the geo-politic component is very well present on both sides!

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 20:22)

If Obama comes to Pristina, he would be advised to bring a spare watch :D

I would be very sceptical about the recent love-in between Belgrade and Moscow and all this Putin mania nonesense. Yes there are strong links due to orthodoxy but if anything we have seen, that when push comes to shove, the Russians have pushed the Serbs under the bus. I am still angry of how Russia abandoned Yugoslavia twice in 1991 and 1999 when they left us to the mercy of NATO. Serbs should not put all their eggs in the one basket. I am not a Serb but I do understand the strong links between Serbs and Russians but I do believe that Serbia should further strenghten links with China, Brazil and India as well as keeping the West all sweet. We in Serbia are in a unique position due to not only our geo-political position but also the presense of many religions and ethnic groups in Serbia (East & West, Orthodoxy-Catholicism-Protestanism-Islam). Yes I welcome the visit of Putin but we should keep all options open and expolit our strenghts.

Some of the comments from the diaspora Serb nationalists are laughable.

$250 million cash for SrbijaGas and $500 million plus investment in new infrastructure for one deal is 'nothing'??? With great financial minds like this (if Mr. Nomer 'Truth' is to be believed), the albanians will take over the world and the chinese will be shaking in their little boots.

Mr Putin, you are also welcome in "Kosova" but first go via our government for granting you the entering of Kosova.

Tung

(FREEDOM, 23 March 2011 10:42)

Are you a half-breed or smth? No, he isnt welcome in Kosovo, he may enter but never be welcomed.

will be accompanied by Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller.


I know the above-mentioned did not come to talk about Kosova, but how to milk Serbia.

Hi Pejoni

Everybody is welcome in Kosova as long as they respect and honour the Kosovar constitutions & law.

100 % Albanian/Illyrian for generations!

Tung

I dont believe this visit will bring anything new to Serbia except some form of rhetoric and condemnation of western policies. Either way the EU states are being very clear with Serbia. Plot your course and choose your path in any way form or shape you desire. No matter which path Serbia chooses it still has to deal with the issues of Kosovo, Bosnia, and Croatia. The good news is that the days when the politicians in Belgrade decided to send tanks over the border are over and now they have to think long and hard how to solve this century old problems peacefully. Not an easy task for sure but not unsolvable either. I hope the Russian president ecourages Serbs to engage in peaceful and practical solutions. The region has seen enough desctruction.

FREEDOM

What's that you say?

You want Putin to blow down your door!

Besides an act of terrorism, what kind of show would you put on for Putin?

"hide and seek with Putin's watch"

How would you have the time to entertain Putin, when you are already entertaing the Americans at Camp Bondsteel?

Welcome Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia. Lets talk about making us the energy hub in the region. That is exactly where the future lies.

Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia and welcome to see our beutiful churces and monasteries in Kosovo.
(MikeC, 23 March 2011 16:53)

Well he cannot enter Kosova without getting a permission from Kosova gov. full stop on your silly comment.

Dont hate us Serbs. If it was up to us & our leaders, we were too demoralized to defend KiM & RS. It was Putin who made our resistance possible. It was Putin who saved Russia single-handedly. He's almost messiah-like. Thank you Putin!

I know the above-mentioned did not come to talk about Kosova, but how to milk Serbia.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 13:18)
--
No one has attempted to milk Serbia more than the West so not sure what you are on about. Russia is protecting KiM and supporting Serbia's position and not attempting to take it away. Big difference my friend.

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 20:22)

If Obama comes to Pristina, he would be advised to bring a spare watch :D

(The Truth Chicago, 24 March 2011 16:37)
The only thing that the US/EU has invested is to keep the existing regime in power in Pristina - to maintain control over the population. Hey, I maybe wrong, but how much has the west invested in Kosovo again? I can’t recall how many industries have they opened up? Will this meeting in Baltimore improve things? Will Microsoft or Ford or GM or Boeing move some manufacturing to Kosovo?????? It costs the US/EU nothing to bleat BS about freedom and democracy in Kosovo.
NATO and its expansion is finished so you can keep it if you like. The Russians are happy keeping the stupid Americans busy spending more money they don’t have on trying regime change in Libya. Now the US knuckle heads are beginning to realize that the opposition in Libya is not the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan and it looks like a long and drawn out conflict that will go on for months and months (where did I hear “Mr President Iraq will be a walk over”?).
Talk about deluding one self.

Welcome Vladimir! In Serbia you have a true friend, and a brother.
Please tell Tadic be more patriotic. While the US is going further and further in the hole, spending dollars they don't have on more military adventures, Putin and company are going to help Republika Srpska and Kosovo be free of foreign rulers. Just watch and see.
Cheers!

"I know the above-mentioned did not come to talk about Kosova, but how to milk Serbia.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 13:18)"

Well, you should know the feeling, right? Aren't the Yankees milking you guys now for Bondsteel and ..... body organs? And letting poor, poor Thaci take the rap? You have my condolence.

To beat this visit, kosovo has to get barak obama to visit pristina. Good luck trying to get that.
(JohnBoy, 23 March 2011 18:49)

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.

100 % Albanian/Illyrian for generations!

Tung
(FREEDOM, 23 March 2011 13:36)

Do you deliver or is it for pick up only?

Interesting that albanians are the first to comment articles here at B92. I guess there are a lot of jobless Kosovo albanians out there. Now that Putin is here ask him if he can find a job for you :)

Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia and welcome to see our beutiful churces and monasteries in Kosovo.

Yesterday Putin praised the Slovenians for looking after the graves of the Russian soldiers killed during WW1. Today in Belgrade he could add that there are very little of such graves in Yugoslavia because Serbians to compose 90% of the two Yugoslavian armies had set their country free before we stormed Beograd together. Outside the USSR only in Yugoslavia there was a real partisan movement. All other “how I won the war stories” were written in post war period. After the USSR and the USA combat losses which Yugoslavia has suffered in WW2 were 3-rd in the coalition ! Then France somehow found itself a heroic nation with a chair in UN SC while Serbs were later bombed as if they were children of Dr. Gebbels.

Lets be clear, The USA gave every type of support from political, monetary, coaltion building, and most importantly active MILITARY support to Kosova. Russia did absolutely nothing. The kind of supoprt that Russia is giving Serbia right now costs Russia nothing. They have nothing to lose by saying "Kosova is Serbias".

Wow, what great friends Serbia has. Tadic is practicaly pulling Putins pants down out of excitement, but the Russians didnt care enough to even defend you with their guns and bombs.

Russia will be Serbias friend as long as Serbia keeps giving them companies for NOTHING. As long as they can keep Serbia out of NATO they will be your "friends".

When push comes to shove, Russia has always cut and run from Serbia, and they only support Serbia when they have nothing to lose. When you look at all of this "support", its really Russia benefitting from Serbia. Did you ever notice how Russia only supports Serbia after the fact? True friends support you from the beginning to the end.

The Kosovars learned a long time ago the Russians cannot be trusted. Serbia didnt get the memo.

You have the right to your own opinion just as this gentlemen does.
[link]
(I love free speech, 23 March 2011 16:11)

Free speech is for the weak. The strong wait for Lukaschenko or Qadhafi to tell them what to say.

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 20:22)
--
Curious, did they ever find the person who stole Bush's watch?

Mr Putin, welcome to Serbia and welcome to see our beutiful churces and monasteries in Kosovo.
(MikeC, 23 March 2011 16:53)

Well he cannot enter Kosova without getting a permission from Kosova gov. full stop on your silly comment.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 17:58)

Waoo, that must be such a feeling to be able to show this kind of power... Does this bring investors, I mean real investors, does this bring jobs, decrease enemployment etc etc etc...
Yes, stupid show must go on...

I read B92 to keep up to date but the comments have become childish.
(urnrg, 23 March 2011 14:12)

You have the right to your own opinion just as this gentlemen does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBoYMNKa-8&feature=related

To beat this visit, kosovo has to get barak obama to visit pristina. Good luck trying to get that.

To beat this visit, kosovo has to get barak obama to visit pristina. Good luck trying to get that.
(JohnBoy, 23 March 2011 18:49)

How soon you forget Bush visiting Albania and Clinton Kosova??? Its one and the same.
(Agim Kelmendi, 23 March 2011 20:22)

Nice friends (!)

http://www.iraqwar.org/natowarcrimes.htm

I would be very sceptical about the recent love-in between Belgrade and Moscow and all this Putin mania nonesense. Yes there are strong links due to orthodoxy but if anything we have seen, that when push comes to shove, the Russians have pushed the Serbs under the bus. I am still angry of how Russia abandoned Yugoslavia twice in 1991 and 1999 when they left us to the mercy of NATO. Serbs should not put all their eggs in the one basket. I am not a Serb but I do understand the strong links between Serbs and Russians but I do believe that Serbia should further strenghten links with China, Brazil and India as well as keeping the West all sweet. We in Serbia are in a unique position due to not only our geo-political position but also the presense of many religions and ethnic groups in Serbia (East & West, Orthodoxy-Catholicism-Protestanism-Islam). Yes I welcome the visit of Putin but we should keep all options open and expolit our strenghts.

Some of the comments from the diaspora Serb nationalists are laughable.

I read B92 to keep up to date but the comments have become childish.

I read B92 to keep up to date but the comments have become childish.
(urnrg, 23 March 2011 14:12)

You are taking the words from my mouth, B92 should do a better job in censuring stupid and low level comments which have started appearing the last few months !

Putin is a snake and one should pay attention when dealing with him !
Serbia has certainly a good card to play, but nothing ever comes free from the Russian. Yes some, like my friend Zoran would argue that EU isn't any better... yes to a certain extend but there is still an important difference when it comes to business ethics....
At the end the geo-politic component is very well present on both sides!

$250 million cash for SrbijaGas and $500 million plus investment in new infrastructure for one deal is 'nothing'??? With great financial minds like this (if Mr. Nomer 'Truth' is to be believed), the albanians will take over the world and the chinese will be shaking in their little boots.