President Dmitry Medvedev stated in a major foreign policy speech "For the EU, Kosovo is almost what Iraq is to the United States.... This is the latest example of the undermining of international law". On 29 May 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev described Serbia as a "key partner" for Russia in Southeast Europe and announced "We intend to continue to coordinate our foreign policy moves in future, including the ones related to the solving of the issue with Kosovo". Russian ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin told a Belgrade daily in June 2009 that "Russia's stand is rather simple — we are ready to back whatever position Serbia takes (with regards to Kosovo)." Although Russia is antagonistic to Kosovo's independence, nonetheless Russia has supported Donald Trump-brokered normalization agreements between Kosovo and Serbia in 2020. Economic relations Trade In 2016, trade between Russia and Serbia totalled $1.657 bn, having grown by 1,32 percent against 2015; Russia's export to Serbia totalled $770.2 mln, a decrease by 9.34 percent; Russia's import from Serbia was at $886.8 mln, an increase by 12.84 percent. In 2017, 70 percent of Russia's export to Serbia was said to be hydrocarbons, natural gas being the primary export item; from 2013 to 2016 exports of Russian gas to Serbia dropped from 2 bn to 1.7 billion cubic meters. In 2013, Gazprom offered a 13 percent discount on its gas export price for Serbia, to be effective until 2021. In December 2017, Russia cancelled the requirement for Serbia to consume its gas only on the domestic market, thus allowing Serbia to re-export the fuel; a Russian government document published on 18 December amended the 2012 contract for gas supplies until 2021 for the volume of 5 billion cubic meters per year. Companies Naftna Industrija Srbije, the best performing company of Serbia, is majority owned by the Russian company Gazprom Neft, a subsidiary of the government-controlled Gazprom. Travel Russia and Serbia have shared a visa-free policy for travelers going between the two countries since 2008. Military cooperation The Serbian Armed Forces and its arms industry have since the Soviet-Yugoslavia period been dependent on Soviet/Russian technology. According to Samuel Huntington's book Clash of Civilizations, Russian Military Intelligence suspected for selling worth three hundred million dollars T-55 tanks, Anti-air missiles, anti-balistic missiles to Serbia at early 1993. Also, Russia assumed to sent military experts to serbia. For training serbian troops with Russian equipment during Yugoslav