Rally in support of Russia in downtown Belgrade, SerbiaBELGRADE, Apr 15The mass protest action «Not on my behalf», related to Serbia's vote for Russia's withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, began on Friday evening in the center of Belgrade, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Mass actions of right-wing patriotic organizations took place in Serbia on March 4 and 24 in support of Russia and against NATO under the slogan «Serbs and Russians are brothers forever!». The organizers were the same range of socio-political movements as this Friday — «People's Patrol» by Damnyan Knezevic, «Obraz» movement by Mladen Obradovic. This time it was planned to come and representatives of movements that have passed the 3% barrier and will enter the new convocation of parliament, among them «Doors» and «Treasurers». jpg» />German Foreign Ministry: Serbia must support sanctions if it wants to become a member of the EUAbout 19.00 (20.00 Moscow time) at the monument to Nicholas II Romanov near the building of the election commission and across the road from the residence of the President of Serbia, hundreds of protesters gathered with posters, Serbian and Russian flags. The speakers play Russian songs, including «When We Were at War». Some of those who came wear T-shirts with the symbol Z, there are flags of Novorossiya and a black-yellow-white banner. Organizers are expected to speak. The protesters block the main street of Kralja Milano, the police do not interfere. On April 9, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic thanked the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov for understanding why Serbia voted for the suspension of Russia's participation in the UN Human Rights Council, and the leadership of the European Union for the exclusion Belgrade from restrictions on oil supplies. Earlier, the UN General Assembly voted to suspend Russia's participation in the Human Rights Council due to events in Ukraine. Serbia, among others, supported the resolution. The decision deprived the Russian Federation of the right to vote and the right to speak in the Council. In response, Russia announced that it was terminating its powers in the HRC. In an address to fellow citizens on March 2, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the Serbian authorities supported 4 of the 13 points of the UN resolution condemning the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine — those that do not involve sanctions and the alienation of property of Russian companies in the country. According to him, the crisis due to the hostilities in Ukraine is having a dramatic effect on Serbia, which has come under enormous foreign political pressure. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
