Nebojša Stefanović

BELGRADE- State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of Education Aleksandar Belic said Tuesday that a recent debate at Serbian parliament’s Committee on Education about alleged Ph.D. plagiarism by Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic had had a political ćaracter and announced greater transparency regarding all doctoral dišertations.

BELGRADE - The Serbian police are still intensively working on the case of Pescanik website takedown, Police Director Milorad Veljovic told Tanjug on Tuesday.

Veljovic explained that the investigation is being conducted in close cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office for Hi-Tech Crime.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic laid a wreath on Sunday at the memorial to Jakov Nenadovic, one of the leaders of the First Serbian Uprising and the minister of internal affairs of Serbia at the beginning of the 19th century, on the occasion of the Day of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Police Day.

BELGRADE - Belgrade police paraded through the Knez Mihailova Street on Saturday on the occasion of the Day of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Police Day.

The parade included members of the traffic and criminal police, firemen-rescuers, the rescue team of the Serbian Interior Ministry, officers with dogs and members of the Cavalry Brigade.

Vladimir Pavicevic, of the opposition Nova Stranka (New Party), told a Friday debate in parliament that the case of Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic's plagiarism of parts of his PhD thesis "could not be more obvious".

BELGRADE - After three and a half hours of heated debate, the Serbian parliamentary committee on education, science, technological development and information society failed on Friday to adopt conclusions on alleged plagiarism in the doctoral thesis of Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic.

The protest held in Belgrade's main square against the Interior Minister was organized on Facebook by group called “Citizens against Nebojsa Stefanovic." 

It has attracted more than 4,200 likes and reflects the anger felt by some over claims that Minister Stefanovic plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis on local government.

Critics of minister's dissertation baffled by PM's comment

BELGRADE -- The authors of an article about Nebojša Stefanović's doctoral dissertation say they are unclear what PM Aleksandar Vučić meant when he said it was "stupid."

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said on Tuesday that it has been ascertained that the Pescanik website was attacked from two IP addresses, and underscored that the state had no part in the cyber attack.
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The Pescanik.net website said on Monday that it had been brought down by a Denial of Service (DOS) attack a day earlier, directly after publishing allegations that that Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic had plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis.

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