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Slavko Ćuruvija
Slavko Ćuruvija ( sr-Cyrl, Славко Ћурувија, ; 9 August 1949 – 11 April 1999) was a Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher. His murder on 11 April 1999 in Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia provoked international outrage and wide condemnation. In January 2014 two people were arrested and two others named by the Serbian police as suspects in Ćuruvija's murder, including Radomir Marković, former head of the State Security Service (SDB) from 1998 to 2001."Улемек открио убице Славка Ћурувије" (Ulemek Reveals Slavko Ćuruvija's Killers)
Politika, 14 January 2014 (in Serbian)


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Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slovenia at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level, above sea level. At the 2021 census, the city had a population of 767,131. The population of the Zagreb urban agglomeration is 1,071,150, approximately a quarter of the total population of Croatia. Zagreb is a city with a rich history dating from Roman Empire, Roman times. The oldest settlement in the vicinity of the city was the Roman Andautonia, in today's Ščitarjevo. The historical record of the name "Zagreb" dates from 1134, in reference to the foundation of the settlement at Kaptol, Zagreb, Kaptol in 1094. Zagreb became a free royal city in 1242. In 1851 Janko Kamauf became Z ...
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Borba (newspaper)
''Borba'' ( sh-Cyrl, Борба) is a Serbian newspaper, formerly the official gazette of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) until 1954 and People's Front of Yugoslavia thereon until its dissolution. Its name is the Serbo-Croatian word for 'struggle' or 'combat'. History Beginnings and censorship The very first issue of ''Borba'' was first published in Zagreb on 19 February 1922, Đuro Cvijić, together with Kamil Horvatin became the editors of the newspaper at its founding. As the official gazette of the Yugoslav Communist Party (KPJ), a banned political organization since December 1920 that nevertheless operated clandestinely in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1924, the editor of Borba was Vladimir Ćopić, who was soon arrested for his articles against the government. Functioning as the banned Yugoslav Communist Party's propaganda piece, the paper played in important part in disseminating information among the party memb ...
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Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Europe. It lies at the centre of the Balkans. Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008, and has since gained diplomatic recognition as a sovereign state by 101 member states of the United Nations. It is bordered by Serbia to the north and east, North Macedonia to the southeast, Albania to the southwest, and Montenegro to the west. Most of central Kosovo is dominated by the vast plains and fields of Dukagjini and Kosovo field. The Accursed Mountains and Šar Mountains rise in the southwest and southeast, respectively. Its capital and largest city is Pristina. In classical antiquity, the central tribe which emerged in the territory of Kosovo were Dardani, who formed an independent polity known as th ...
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Mirjana Marković
Mirjana "Mira" Marković ( sr-cyr, Мирјана "Мира" Марковић, ; 10 July 1942 – 14 April 2019) was a Serbian politician, academic and the wife of Yugoslav and Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. She was the leader of the far-left Yugoslav United Left (JUL) which governed in coalition with Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia in the aftermath of the Bosnian War. She was reported to have huge influence over her husband and was increasingly seen as the power behind the throne. Among her opponents, she was known as The Red Witch and the Lady Macbeth of Belgrade. Marković was accused of abuse of office, inciting several associates to allocate a state-owned apartment for her grandson’s nanny in September 2000. She was indicted in December 2002 and fled Belgrade on 23 February 2003. In June 2018, she was declared guilty ''in absentia'' by a court in Belgrade, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, but the verdict was overturned on appeal in March 2019. ...
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Ljiljana Smajlović
Ljiljana Smajlović (née Ugrica; born 22 January 1956, Sarajevo, PR Bosnia-Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian journalist and the former editor of ''Politika'', the oldest daily newspaper in the Balkans. From 2009 to 2017, she was the president of the Serbian Journalists' Association (UNS). Early life and education Ljiljana Ugrica was born into a middle-class family of Bosnian Serbs. Her mother Danica, a native of Bihać, was involved in the People's Liberation Struggle on the Partisan side during World War II before remaining in the sanitary service after the war, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA); her father Mirko, from Serbia, was a member of the JNA's civil service. She said that "as a small girl, I found discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis and the relations between great powers much more interesting than playing with dolls". At the age of nine, with her mother and sister, she went to Algeria to attend a French boarding sc ...
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Aleksandar Tijanić
Aleksandar Tijanić ( sr-cyr, Александар Тијанић; 13 December 1949 – 28 October 2013) was a Serbian journalist and director of the country's public broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia from 2004 to 2013. During his career he was a star columnist for leading newspapers and magazines published in SFR Yugoslavia and Serbia, editor in chief of several prominent television stations, political advisor to prominent Serbian politicians, and Information Minister for four months in 1996 in the government headed by Mirko Marjanović during the rule of Slobodan Milošević. He was very much a polarising figure in Serbian society and gathered a great deal of admirers as well as enemies throughout the years. He died on October 28, 2013 from a heart attack. Early life Tijanić was born in Đakovica, FPR Yugoslavia. After finishing high school in his home town, he moved to Belgrade to study journalism at University of Belgrade's Faculty of Political Sciences. He did not compl ...
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Evropljanin
''Evropljanin'' (''The European'') was a bi-weekly newsmagazine published in Serbia during the late 1990s. Launched in April 1998, it was visually modeled after the German newsmagazine ''Focus''. Owned by Slavko Ćuruvija and published under the "Moderni srpski nedeljnik" mantra, the magazine had a strongly independent editorial policy when it came to reporting on current events in FR Yugoslavia. At times, the magazine took a clear and direct anti-Milošević stance meaning it often found itself at odds with the highest echelons of government. That eventually led to fines and Ćuruvija's brutal murder. Notable Serbian journalists such as Aleksandar Tijanić, Ljiljana Smajlović, Goranka Matić, Dragan Babić, Bogdan Tirnanić Bogdan Tirnanić ( Serbian Cyrillic: ''Богдан Тирнанић'') (September 14, 1941 – January 16, 2009) was one of the most prominent Serbian journalists, essayists and movie critics. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He wrote columns ..., Voja ...
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Dnevni Telegraf
''Dnevni telegraf'' was a Serbian daily middle-market tabloid published in Belgrade between 1996 and November 1998, and then also in Podgorica until March 1999. It was the first privately owned daily in Serbia after more than 50 years of across-the-board public ownership under communism. Founded and owned by Slavko Ćuruvija, published in tabloid format with content that catered to the middle-market, ''Dnevni telegraf'' maintained high prominence and readership all throughout its run. History The newspaper benefited from its owner's personal relationship and access to Mirjana Marković, wife of Serbian President Slobodan Milošević. By getting a constant stream of relevant information from such a top source, the newspaper built up a sizable readership and a steady source of revenue. This Ćuruvija-Marković relationship was described as "non-aggression pact rather than friendship" by Aleksandar Tijanić (Ćuruvija's friend and colleague, who had previously in 1996 for a short p ...
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Radio Television Of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Радио-телевизија Србије, sr-Lat, Radio-televizija Srbije, italics=yes; abbr. RTS/PTC) is Serbia's public broadcaster. It broadcasts and produces news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is a member of the European Broadcasting Union. Radio Television of Serbia has four organizational units - radio, television, music production, and record label ( PGP-RTS). It is financed primarily through monthly subscription fees and advertising revenue. History Radio Belgrade (1929–1958) Radio Belgrade began its broadcasts in 1929. The first news announcer in 1929 was Jelena Bilbija. The first radio program in Serbia was broadcast in February 1929, when released radio signal was transmitted from the transmitter in Belgrade suburb of Rakovica. After five years, on 24 March 1929 Radio Belgrade began with regular broadcasting of its program from the building of the Serbian Academy of Sciences ...
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Pobjeda
Pobjeda ( cyrl, Пoбjeдa, , lit. "The Victory") ( MNSENIPO is a Montenegrin daily newspaper. Having been published for 75 years, it is the oldest Montenegrin newspaper still in circulation; in the media, it is also the oldest Montenegrin active publication. Until September 1997 it was the only daily newspaper printed in Montenegro. On 21 May 2010, the newspaper dropped the Cyrillic script in favour of the Latin script. History of ''Pobjeda'' The first issue of ''Pobjeda'' was published on 24 October 1944 in Nikšić as a part of the National liberation front of Montenegro (''Narodnooslobodilački front Crne Gore''). Three more issues came out before ''Pobjeda'' began to be published in Cetinje, which was ''Pobjedas home until 1954, when it moved to Podgorica. ''Pobjeda'' was a bi-weekly and weekly newspaper until 1 January 1975 when it switched to daily frequency. The change happened when the headquarters of ''Pobjeda'' moved from old location (Graphic institute building, at ...
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Večernji List
''Večernji list'' (also known as ''Večernjak''; ) is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Zagreb. History and profile ''Večernji list'' was started in Zagreb in 1959. Its ancestor ''Večernji vjesnik'' ("Evening Courier") appeared for the first time on 3 June 1957 in Zagreb on 24 pages but quickly merged with ''Narodni list'' (meaning "People's Paper" in English) to form what is today known as ''Večernji list''. ''Večernji list'' is considered a conservative leaning newspaper. Editions ''Večernji list'' formerly had multiple regional and two foreign editions: * Dalmatia * Istria- Primorje-Lika * Slavonia and Baranja * Podravina and Bilogora * Varaždin and Međimurje * Zagorje * Sisak * Karlovac * Zagreb * Bosnia and Herzegovina * International edition In 2012, all of the Croatian regional editions were merged, so four editions remain: Zagreb, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and World. Croatia to the World In February 2021, Večernji list, in collaboration with the Aca ...
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NIN (magazine)
''NIN'' ( sr-cyr, НИН) is a weekly conservative news magazine published in Belgrade, Serbia. Its name is an acronym for ''Nedeljne informativne novine'' (Недељне информативне новине) which roughly translates into ''Weekly Informational Newspaper''. Though a current events magazine in its essence, ''NIN'' also earned an esteemed reputation due to a long tradition of opening its pages to the best and the brightest within Serbian, and previously Yugoslav society, whether in arts, sciences, or even sports. This reputation has recently somewhat been tarnished as the magazine was forced into commercial competition with numerous political periodicals that sprung up in Serbia after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Since then, ''NIN'' has adopted a slightly more populist tone, though it is still highly regarded. , the magazine had 35 employees. In July 2008, the magazine celebrated the release of its 3000th issue. On March 13, 2009 it was announced that majority ...
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