For the presidents of Serbia and Russia, Aleksandar Vučić and Vladimir Putin, the "Shiju scandal" has apparently remained in the past, writes the Moscow daily Komersant today in an article dedicated to yesterday's meeting between the two presidents in Sochi.
"Putin has never seen Vučić so talkative, so enlightened and so full of adoration. Obviously, for both politicians, the spy scandal is in the past, and (for some) very long ago," writes Kremlin reporter Andrey Kolesnikov.
In the article entitled "Serbin's our daily life", the paper adds that Vučić "drowned the Russian president with a lion of love, spoke exclusively in Russian, although the protocol in such cases does not imply this", but he also spoke about affairs.
Komersant writes that the meeting, together with lunch, lasted about three hours, and that Vučić, appearing before the journalists, "looked like a happy man" who, as it turned out, "had no intention of hiding it".
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The paper also writes that "selected Serbian journalists", who flew in with the president on the same plane, were apparently a little (though not very) disappointed that only one question from each side would be asked at the press conference.
The reporter states that in the conversation with the Serbian journalists, it was said that they would ask a question about the espionage scandal, but it seems that, after the conversation, "the Serbian side could not even ask such a question."
"Such a question after Vučić's unprecedented pathos would seem not only presumptuous but also unnatural," Kommersant writes.
Dnevnik reminds that the entire Serbian delegation applauded when Putin stated that Serbia will be provided with gas, in any case, and assesses that those words will become "a nightmare for TV viewers in Serbia", as RTS will tirelessly spin them without pause.
"On the one hand, Vučić literally pushed the talks on the continuation of gas transit, playing on the side of the Russian president, and on the other hand, he made it clear that Putin allowed him to buy gas in other places, if needed, that is, if he insured himself negotiations with Ukraine come to a dead end," Komersant assesses.
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