Pobjeda

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Pobjeda

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner

Owner	Government of Montenegro
Editor	Andrija Racković
Founded	1944
Political allegiance	Pro-government
Language	Serbian
Headquarters	Bulevar Revolucije 11, Poštanski fah 101, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
ISSN	0350-4379

Website: www.pobjeda.co.me

Pobjeda (Serbian Cyrillic: Пoбjeдa, English: Victory) (MNSE: NIPO) is a Montenegrin newspaper. Having been published for more than half a century, it is the oldest Montenegrin newspaper still in circulation. Until September 1997 it was the only daily newspaper in Montenegro. It is also the only daily newspaper that is state-owned.

Since 1997, with its monopoly broken, Pobjeda's market share has fallen dramatically. The privately owned Vijesti and, to a lesser lesser extent, Dan took away a number of readers.^{[citation needed]}

Today, "Pobjeda" is considered by some to be an inert pro-regime mouthpiece – a public service with no distinct features^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] History

The first edition of Pobjeda was released on 24 October 1944 in Nikšić as an organ of the National liberation front of Montenegro (Narodnooslobodilačkog fronta Crne Gore). In Nikšić, three more editions came out and then Pobjeda began to appear in Cetinje. The headquarters of Pobjeda was located in Cetinje until 1954, where it moved to Titograd (today's Podgorica). Pobjeda was a weekly newspaper until 1 January 1975 where it became a daily newspaper.