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Serbian leader fires back at Moscow after 'Basic Instinct' jibe

Published 09/06/2020, 01:49 PM
Updated 09/06/2020, 01:50 PM
© Reuters. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic during an interview with Reuters in Paris

© Reuters. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic during an interview with Reuters in Paris

MOSCOW/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's president accused Moscow on Sunday of stooping to "primitivism and vulgarity" in an attack on him, after Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman compared him to the actor Sharon Stone in an explicit film scene.

Serbia is Moscow's closest ally in the Balkans, but President Aleksandar Vucic has long annoyed Russia by seeking better ties with the West.

He took a step in that direction last week by signing an agreement to improve relations with Kosovo, a province that declared independence in 2008, which Belgrade and Moscow do not recognise. A signing ceremony was held at the White House.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a picture on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) of Vucic at the ceremony, alongside a picture of Stone from the 1992 film "Basic Instinct", at a police interrogation where her character briefly exposes herself.

"If you are invited to the White House but your chair stands like you are in an interrogation, you should sit like in the picture number 2. Whoever you are. Just trust me," Zakharova wrote.

In televised comments while on a visit to Brussels, Vucic said: "Maria Zakharova speaks mostly about herself, and the primitivism and vulgarity she showed speaks of her, and by God, of those who placed her there."

Serbia's defence minister, Aleksandar Vulin said in a statement: "Today, the enemies of Serbia and Russia are delighted with Zakharova's petty malice."

Zakharova updated her post on Sunday with an apology, saying that her comments had been misunderstood.

© Reuters. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic during an interview with Reuters in Paris

Vucic spoke by phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Belgrade and Moscow said on Sunday afternoon.

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