Serbian nationalists

At a status conference in the Radovan Karadzic case at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday, presiding judge Theodor Meron said the plan was that the final verdict will be handed down in December.

The daily added that it learned Serbia's top officials are also embarking on a diplomatic offensive in September.

According to the newspaper, which cited top government circles, India's Vice President Venkaiah Naidu is coming to Belgrade. After that, Blic said, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic should meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Officials in Zagreb reacted angrily after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic compared Croatia’s policies towards Serbs during the 1990s war to Adolf Hitler’s policies towards Jews.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told a 23rd anniversary commemoration for Serb victims of the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in 1995 that Belgrade will protect Serbs living in other former Yugoslav countries.

The UN court in The Hague rejected a call from Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic’s defence to reconsider a previous decision to refuse to launch proceedings against medics at its detention unit.

The Belgrade Higher Court has dismissed the request of Milan Nedic's family to rehabilitate the leader of Serbia’s Nazi-backed World War II puppet government.

This accusation was made after Dacic made public the details of the correspondence between former president of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic and the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis.

WWII-era Serbian puppet government leader Milan Nedic was not a Nazi and his ‘only guilt’ was his love for his fellow Serbs, said lawyer Zoran Zivanovic in his closing statement in Nedic’s rehabilitation case.

Croatia’s Supreme Court reduced the sentence handed down to former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, from 15 to 13-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes in Croatia in 1991.

Defence lawyers for former Serbian security service officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic told the Hague court that notorious paramilitary leader Arkan’s fighters operated as part of the Bosnian Serb police in 1995.