Russia is the only friend to Serbia

 Serbia and Russia are linked by their roots, language, customs, creed, history, culture, exalted belief in freedom and heroism and lost generations that remember the wars the two countries fought alongside...

We are connected not only through common Slavic origin, language, creed, tradition and culture, but also by the fact that we have always been on the same side.

More than once in its history has Serbia, a small Slavic country, received great and heroic assistance from Russia.In the 19th century, Moscow contributed to the restoration of Serbian statehood during the wars with Turkey.Russia, an Orthodox nation had strong cultural ties to the Balkans and many Orthodox Christians lived under Ottoman rule and were treated as second-class citizens.After the Ottoman invasion of Serbia in the 14th century, Serbian refugees found refuge in Russia. Lazar the Serb (built the first mechanical public clock in Russia) and Pachomius the Serb (hagiographer and translator) were some of the notable Serbs in Russian medieval history. Elena Glinskaya (1510–1538), the mother of Russian emperor Ivan the Terrible (r. 1547–84), was maternally Serbian. The Orthodox worship of Saint Sava was established in Russia in the 16th century. Some 30,000 Russian troops fought alongside the Serbs and other allies at the Thessaloniki front, that is why the Russian necropolis at the Belgrade's cemetery Novo groblje is a holy site to all the citizens of Belgrade.Russia and Serbia fought together against fascism as well. ..Russia has backed Serbia's position regarding Kosovo. Vladimir Putin said that any support for Kosovo's unilateral declaration is immoral and illegal.[66] He described the recognition of Kosovo's unilaterally declared independence by several major world powers as "a terrible precedent" that "breaks up the entire system of international relations" that have taken "centuries to evolve", and "undoubtedly, it may entail a whole chain of unpredictable consequences to other regions in the world" that will come back to hit the West "in the face".On 23 March 2008 Vladimir Putin ordered urgent humanitarian aid for Kosovo Serb enclaves.Russia stands behind the Republika Srpska and its leader, Milorad Dodik.Bosnia is administratively divided between two decentralized entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has a mostly Bosniak/the muslim people/ and Croat population, and Republika Srpska, which has a Serb majority...

The collapse of Yugoslavia in 2006 triggered a wave of sympathy for Serbs in Russia: Russian volunteers stretched to the country, while the Russian authorities supported Belgrade during the Kosovo conflict.Currently, there are very close economic relations between the countries. In particular, there is an agreement on free trade...We support Serbia and we will keep supporting it in the future, Putin said... 

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