Relations were briefly broken off between 1949 and 1953, and continued thereafter, including after the renaming of the state as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1963 until 1992.

After the separation of this union into the independent countries of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006, the Russian Federation continues to appoint representatives to both of them.

[2] Relations were maintained thereafter, including during the changing of the country's name to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1963, with the last Soviet ambassador, Gennady Shikin, being appointed in September 1991.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Shikin remained as ambassador of the Russian Federation, and continued to serve during the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992.

The Russian Federation duly established relations and appointed ambassadors to them: to Croatia in 1992, to Slovenia in 1994, to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Macedonia in 1996.