The State Duma ratified the Treaty between Russia and Serbia on social security
The ratification of the treaty will allow solving the issues of pension provision for citizens of both countries that live on their territories
The treaty provides for the granting of the right to receive old-age pensions, disability or survivors' insurance pensions, cumulative part of pensions and payments from pension savings, as well as social pensions to those Russian citizens who live in the Republic of Serbia and citizens of the Republic of Serbia who reside on the Russian territory.
According to the Treaty,
an allowance on the grounds of an accident
at work or a professional disease is prescribed and paid
by the country which legislation was extended
to the insured person at the time of injury,
and if the disease is diagnosed on the territory
of another contracting state.
Sergei Zhelezniak
Sergei Vladimiroviсh
, a member of the Committee
on International Relations, expressed confidence that the agreement
would solve “really important issues for those of our citizens
and their families who live on the territory of fraternal
Serbia and those of our colleagues from Serbia who live together with
their families on the territory the Russian Federation”.
