User blog comment:Dan67/GTA4 Comic: Niko Meets a New Gang/@comment-2053588-20130415180415/@comment-5875702-20130418131350

He's actually Yugoslavian. Serbia did not become an independant country until 2003.

Serbia was part of the Kosova regeem, which was seperate from the Soviet Union.

And many sources will tell you that niko is not from Russia, but from the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia.