Aleksandar Vucic
FILE - United States' gold medalist Shaun White reacts during the men's halfpipe medal ceremony at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. The Beijing Olympics will be the fifth Olympics for the three-time gold medalist. And the last Olympics for the 35-year-old — get this — elder-statesman who is now more than double the age of some of the riders he goes against. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Olympic Updates: China's first gold draws cheers downtown

Feb. 04, 2022 08:11 PM EST

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin enter a hall for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. The U.S., Britain and a handful of others aren’t sending dignitaries to the Beijing Games as part of a diplomatic boycott, but the Chinese capital is still attracting an array of world leaders for Friday’s opening ceremony. Russia’s athletes will be competing under a neutral flag, but the presence of Putin, an enthusiastic skier and hockey player, will reinforce that they are the Russian national team in all but name and soothe wounded national pride. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)
World leaders: Who's coming, who isn't to Beijing Olympics

Feb. 03, 2022 09:43 PM EST

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic receives a dose of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine in the village of Rudna Glava, Serbia, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Vucic finally rolled up his sleeve for a coronavirus vaccine Tuesday and to encourage his country's increasingly skeptical Serbs to get vaccinated themselves. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Serbia's leader chooses Chinese-made vaccine for own shot

By Dusan Stojanovic Apr. 06, 2021 07:33 AM EDT

A Turkish man wearing a mask to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, March 26, 2021. Daily COVID-19 infections in Turkey surged above 26,000 on Friday, weeks after the government eased restrictions in dozens of provinces under a so-called "controlled normalization" program. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
The Latest: Navajo Nation extends "safer at home" order

By The Associated Press Mar. 27, 2021 08:01 AM EDT

People wait in line to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Thousands of vaccine-seekers from Serbia's neighboring states have flocked to Belgrade after Serbian authorities offered free coronavirus jabs for foreigners if they show up over the weekend. Many arriving with their entire families, long lines of Bosnians, Montenegrins, North Macedonians and even Albanians formed Saturday in front of the main vaccination center in the Serbian capital. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Foreigners flock to Serbia to get coronavirus vaccine shots

Mar. 27, 2021 06:40 AM EDT

People wait in line to receive a dose of Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine during the vaccination at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Serbian health expert Chief epidemiologist Predrag Kon on Tuesday March 2, 2021, called for the government to introduce a state of emergency and a strict lockdown to halt a surge in coronavirus infections in the Balkan country. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Alarm grows in Serbia over virus surge; lockdown urged

By Jovana Gec Mar. 02, 2021 10:22 AM EST

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Muslim member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Sefik Dzaferovic exchange fist bumps at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic flew to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to deliver the Astra-Zeneca vaccines to the authorities there. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute

By Eldar Emric Mar. 02, 2021 09:12 AM EST

Workers unload boxes of the Astra Zeneca vaccine at the Belgrade Airport, Serbia, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. 150,000 doses of Astra Zeneca vaccines were delivered to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
The Latest: Biden to mark 500,000 lives lost with ceremony

By The Associated Press Feb. 21, 2021 04:54 AM EST

Serbian Orthodox Church bishops arrive in the St. Sava temple before church closed session in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Serbian Orthodox Church gathers in closed session to pick a new Patriarch, following the death of old one Irinej. Irinej died last year of COVID, following the outbreak of virus among church officials in Belgrade. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbian Orthodox Church picks ally of president as patriarch

By Dusan Stojanovic Feb. 18, 2021 01:27 PM EST

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and North Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, right, hold a news conference during a handover of COVID-19 vaccines, at the border crossing Tabanovce, between North Macedonia and Serbia, on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Serbia which has launched a successful vaccination campaign has donated some 8,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 shots to North Macedonia which is yet to deliver its first shots. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
Serbia donates Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to North Macedonia

Feb. 14, 2021 06:39 AM EST

In this picture taken on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, health workers wheel out a patient from an ambulance, at the entrance of the University Clinic complex in Skopje, North Macedonia. When thousands of people across the European Union simultaneously began rolling up their sleeves last month to get a coronavirus vaccination shot, one corner of the continent was left behind, feeling isolated and abandoned: the Balkans. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
Vaccine delay in North Macedonia stirs political tension

By Konstantin Testorides And Dusan Stojanovic Feb. 12, 2021 10:18 AM EST

Supporters of Ramush Haradinaj, candidate for prime minister of the Alliance for the Future of Kosova (AAK), gather during a rally in the town of Peja, Kosovo, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Kosovo holds an early general election on upcoming Sunday Feb. 14, amid the coronavirus pandemic, economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Economy, not Serbia, dominates Kosovo election campaign

By Llazar Semini Feb. 12, 2021 06:49 AM EST

A medical worker wearing protective gear waits for people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. China is ready to consider "vaccine cooperation" with Central and Eastern European countries, President Xi Jinping said Tuesday in a meeting held by video link with European leaders. Serbia has received 1 million doses of a Chinese-developed coronavirus vaccine and Hungarian and Chinese vaccine developers are cooperating. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbia leader says nation among top in Europe in vaccination

Feb. 09, 2021 12:13 PM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2021, file photo, South African law enforcement vehicles provide security for two refrigeration trucks transporting the AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived earlier from India, near Johannesburg. Some countries are getting tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations program, so they are striking out on their own. To ensure South Africans got doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine quickly, government officials reluctantly agreed to pay a higher price per shot than Europe or North America. (AP Photo/Alet Pretorius, File)
Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines

By Maria Cheng And Aniruddha Ghosal Feb. 06, 2021 02:26 AM EST

A medical worker wearing protective gear gestures as people wait to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Serbia were the first European country to receive the Chinese Sinopharm's vaccine for mass inoculation programmes. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Leader says Serbia is proud to give citizens Chinese vaccine

By Dusan Stojanovic Feb. 03, 2021 10:16 AM EST

A Kosovo police officer walks across a red carpet prior to a ceremony held digitally, in the capital Pristina, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. Kosovo and Israel formally have established diplomatic ties in a ceremony held digitally due to the pandemic lockdown. Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla and her Israeli counterpart Gabriel Ashkenazi on Monday held a virtual ceremony signing the documents. The two countries considered it as “making history” and marking “a new chapter.” (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Kosovo, Israel establish diplomatic ties

By Llazar Semini Feb. 01, 2021 10:34 AM EST

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic walks past a 23-meter-high, 70-ton bronze sculpture of the legendary founder of the Serbian state, Stefan Nemanja, during the unveiling ceremony in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. President Aleksandar Vucic's allies say the bronze sculpture of Stefan Nemanja will be a new landmark of the Serbian capital. Opponents think the monument is a megalomaniac and pricy token of Vucic's populist and autocratic rule that should be removed. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Kitsch or artwork? Controversial monument unveiled in Serbia

By Dusan Stojanovic Jan. 28, 2021 05:33 AM EST

A nurse prepares a syringe with Pfizer/Biontech COVID-19 vaccine as medical workers are vaccinated at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. The 27-nation EU is coming under criticism for the slow rollout of its vaccination campaign. The bloc, a collection of many of the richest countries in the world, is not faring well in comparison to countries like Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Not in short supply: Blame for EU's rusty vaccine rollout

By Raf Casert And Mike Corder Jan. 27, 2021 08:57 AM EST

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 A Romanian gendarme leaves after getting a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Across the Balkans and the rest of the nations in the southeastern corner of Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process. In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, skeptics have ranged from former presidents to top athletes and doctors. Nations that once routinely went through mass inoculations under Communist leaders are deeply split over whether to take the vaccines at all. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus efforts

By Dusan Stojanovic And Jovana Gec Jan. 17, 2021 02:45 AM EST

A nun stands in front of St. Sava Temple during the funeral procession of Patriarch Irinej in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 90-year-old Irinej died early on Friday, nearly three weeks after he led the prayers at a funeral of another senior church cleric in neighboring Montenegro, who also died after testing positive for the virus. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbian patriarch buried with few virus measures in place

Nov. 22, 2020 08:18 AM EST