Weekly's controversial front page, and storm of reactions

The front page, that features an image of a growling dog and the heading, "The Hounds Are Unleashed," has caused President Vucic's media adviser Suzana Vasiljevic to resign from the supervisory board of Politika AD, the publisher of the weekly.

This was also the topic on Prva TV's morning show, with guests including Journalist Association of Serbia (UNS) Court of Honor Chairwoman Ljiljana Smajlovic, and Djordje Martic - the author of the controversial article promoted on the front page of Ilustrovana Politika.

"There's the front (page) and the text. The president (of the Republic) has taken his stance toward the front page, not toward the text," Martic said. "Each text can be contentious. It's known who creates the front page, I'm the guy on the sidelines," he continued, adding that "both the front page, and the heading, are over the top."

Journalist associations, meanwhile, accuse Martic of "drawing target marks on reporters," and recall that as editor of Politika Ekspres daily he wrote about journalist and publisher Slavko Curuvija, shortly before be was shot dead in 1999.

"(Late journalist) Aleksandar Tijnanic said, 'if Djindjic survives, Serbia won't'. After that they killed Zoran, while Tijanic is about to get a street named after him. I'm chased out of my profession, my life is destroyed, my kids are persecuted. This is not about a principle, but about a stance toward one man and what he represented," Martic stressed.

According to Ljiljana Smajlovic, the controversy is in Martic being "a recidivist."

"People called me and said, Martic is once again writing in that threatening and gloating tone against journalists. It's important also because this is a state-owned media, it's important that Vucic...