...Leading the delegation will be deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is expected to meet with President Boris Tadić and Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica.
Accompanying Medvedev - the likely winner in next weekend's presidential ballot - the will be Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russian embassy officials in Belgrade confirmed.
Kosovo is expected to top the agenda, along with the sale of Serbia's oil monopoly NIS, which is a part of the energy agreement signed between Moscow and Belgrade on Jan. 25. Russian ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Alekseyev, will also be present at the meeting, set to discuss the "next moves over Kosovo".
Russia supports Serbia in its rejection of the ethnic Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence.
According to the Energyobserver website, Medvedev will be signing an agreement today with officials of Srbijagas for forming a company for the construction of a part of the South Stream gas pipeline in the territory of Serbia...
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