Pravda (Serbia)

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Pravda
Type Daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Pravda Press d.o.o.
Editor Predrag Popović
Founded 5 March 2007
Political alignment Sensationalism
Populism
pro-SRS (2007-2008)
pro-SNS (2008-2012)
Ceased publication 1 June 2012
Headquarters
Official website www.pravda.rs

Pravda (Serbian Cyrillic: Правда, which means "Justice") was a daily tabloid newspaper published in Belgrade, Serbia.

Ownership

Pravda was published by Pravda Press, a limited liability company with Nemanja Stefanović (48%), Jugoslav Petković (47%), and Nikola Petrović (5%) listed as its owners. Nemanja Stefanović's brother is Nebojša Stefanović, a Serbian Radical Party (SRS) and later Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) official.

History

Pravda's first issue appeared on 5 March 2007, some month and a half after the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election where the most popular political party in Serbia at the time, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) led by Vojislav Šešelj who was being held in the dock at the Hague since 2003, once again got the most seats (81 out of 250). Still, despite yet another impressive election showing, SRS had trouble forming a government due to being faced with a situation where no other party wanted to enter into a coalition with them.

Within days of the premiere issue, Predrag Popović, who previously edited Nacional, became Pravda's editor-in-chief. Popović would later reveal that he was hired by Aleksandar Vučić, SRS high-ranking official at the time, who according to Popović was behind the paper throughout its run.[1]

Pravda adopted an anti-establishment editorial policy within the Serbian context and was critical of the Serbian ruling coalition formed around the policy of cohabitation between prime minister Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the president of the republic Boris Tadić of the Democratic Party (DS). It generally espoused rightist political views and promoted the SRS political agenda. Pravda created minor controversy in Serbia when in November 2007 it started publishing irregular columns by Mira Marković, the wife of late Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević and herself a fugitive from the Serbian justice system.

In August 2009, it has been accused by liberal Serbian politician Čedomir Jovanović of being a puppet for the Serbian Progressive Party.[citation needed]

The paper's 1 June 2012 issue was announced to be its last as the newspaper folded. It switched to an all-digital online format.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Vučić ugasio Pravdu, istinu, moral…;Predrag Popovic blog, 1 June 2012
  2. ↑ Ugašen list "Pravda";B92, 1 June 2012

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