Dan (newspaper)

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Dan

Type Daily newspaper
Format Berliner

Owner Jumedia Mont d.o.o
Editor Mladen Milutinović (acting)
Founded December 31, 1998
Political allegiance Pro union with Serbia
Language Serbian
Headquarters 13. jula bb,
81000 Podgorica,
Montenegro
ISSN 1450-7943

Website: www.dan.cg.yu

Dan (English: The day) is a daily newspaper published in Montenegro. Its first issue appeared on December 31, 1998.

Right from the start, Dan was one of the harshest critics of regime of Milo Đukanović.

At around 11:45pm on May 27, 2004 its founder and editor-in-chief Duško Jovanović was assissinated on a Podgorica street in front of Dan offices. Even though a prolonged police investigation produced a couple of arrests, along with an immediate assassin-suspect currently on trial, the individuals behind the murder have still not been identified.

Furthermore, on July 11, 2005, an unindentified male left an explosive device in front of the paper's Podgorica offices. Luckily it did not activate.[1]

On June 3, 2006, Montenegrin state prosecutor Vesna Medenica decided to press charges against Dan columnist Dragan Rosandić due to the first post-referendum text in his regular column. The charge claims that through his piece Prokleta avlija, Rosandic "exposed to ridicule the peoples, national and ethnic groups of Montenegro that voted for Montenegrin independence".