Russia has provided a 500-million dollar state loan to Serbia. An agreement to this effect was signed at the presence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic on Wednesday. The document was signed by Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Serbian Minister of Finance and Economy Mladjan Dinkic. Earlier, Siluanov said the first tranche of the loan (300 million dollars) “might be allocated to Serbia just today”.