Serbian Progressive Party

Montenegrin and Croatian presidents, Milo Djukanovic and Zoran Milanovic, in Zagreb. Photo: President of Montenegro

During his visit to Croatia, Djukanovic said Serbia's President, Aleksandar Vucic, was reviving the retrograde political messages of the wars of the 1990s in former Yugoslavia.

The municipality of Negotin has posted an announcement on its official Facebook page for an event on Wednesday evening to promote a new book by convicted Serbian war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin at the public library in the eastern Serbian town.

Serbia's Commissioner for Information of Public Importance has ordered the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade to review BIRN's request for information on the death of lawyer Vladimir Cvijan, a former associate of the two Serbian presidents.

Cvijan was found dead three years ago, but the public was only notified about his death in March this year.

Miroslav Lazanski, the Serbian ambassador to Russia, has suddenly died, Serbia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lazanski was appointed ambassador to Moscow in June 2019. He had been an MP in parliament since June 2016, elected on the ruling Serbian Progressive Party's list as a non-party person.

The mayor of the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad, Milos Vucevic, a senior official in Serbia's ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, will file an as yet unnamed criminal charge on Tuesday against President Aleksandar Vucic, the party announced on Monday - with a view to clearing the President's reputation and exposing the "mafia octopus" that the mayor says has Vucic in its sights.

"All honest and hard-working people can find place for themselves in the Serbian Progressive Party, to fight even harder for the people of Serbia," Vucic said, along with a video of a meeting of the extended composition of the SNS Executive Board with members of the Belgrade City Board.

Biden's Order

US President Joe Biden, at the time U.S. Vice President, addresses the Bosnian parliament during his visit to Sarajevo, 19 May 2009. EPA/STR

The session of the Main Board of the SNS began in the Kombank Hall in Belgrade with an address by the party leader, Aleksandar Vui.
The second item on the agenda of the Main Board was the unification of the Serbian Progressive Party and SPAS.

Early next year, there will be local elections in Belgrade, an election for president and, most likely, parliamentary elections too.

Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, are faring worst in the capital, where the Progressive administration is accused of corruption and mismanagement.

As meetings of city and municipal committees of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, begin throughout Serbia, some SNS boards have voted to dismiss Defence Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, until recently one of the closest allies of Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic.