{"id":63905,"date":"2023-12-18T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=63905"},"modified":"2023-12-18T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:59:58","slug":"russia-welcomes-vucics-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/russia-welcomes-vucics-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia welcomes Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin has welcomed the victory in the parliamentary elections announced by Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia and Russia have historically had close ties, and Belgrade has not joined the international sanctions imposed on Moscow due to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Serbia held extraordinary parliamentary, local, and regional elections.<\/p>\n<p>Vu\u010di\u0107 declared that his party, the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), won the elections on December 17, while electoral authorities have so far released preliminary results with 35% of the votes counted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome this achievement by Mr. Vu\u010di\u0107,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Moscow hopes the result will lead to \u201cfurther strengthening of friendship\u201d between the two states.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov also referred to Serbia as a \u201cfraternal\u201d state.<\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary results, the electoral list \u201cAleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 \u2013 Serbia dares not stop\u201d won 50.42% of the votes in the parliamentary elections, while the list \u201cSerbia against violence\u201d won 19.25%. The third is the list \u201cIvica Da\u010di\u0107 \u2013 Prime Minister of Serbia\u201d with 7.19% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>A significant part of Serbia\u2019s population has expressed support for Moscow\u2019s military campaign in Ukraine, expressing dissatisfaction with NATO\u2019s military alliance supporting Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>However, Belgrade is also an important center for Russians critical of Moscow\u2019s war, and many who are leaving the country.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia has condemned Russia\u2019s aggression and supported United Nations resolutions condemning the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the head of Serbia\u2019s intelligence, Aleksandar Vulin, who visited Russia during the offensive against Ukraine, resigned, citing international pressure on Belgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin has welcomed the victory in the parliamentary elections announced by Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107. Serbia and Russia have historically had close ties, and Belgrade has not joined the international sanctions imposed on Moscow due to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. On Sunday, Serbia held extraordinary parliamentary, local, and regional elections. Vu\u010di\u0107 declared that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":63906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[348,243,151,2488,284,301,285,787],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russia welcomes Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s election victory - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/russia-welcomes-vucics-election-victory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia welcomes Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s election victory - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kremlin has welcomed the victory in the parliamentary elections announced by Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107. 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