Stevan Dojcinovic

Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin's Movement of Socialists party lashed out after KRIK published a report on Monday alleging that Vulin bought an apartment in Belgrade under suspicious circumstances with money he had borrowed from his wife's aunt in Canada.

The apartment of Dragana Peco, a Serbian journalist with the investigative network KRIK, was broken into on Friday, while she was out of the city.

The police took fingerprints from the scene, while KRIK announced that they would insist on the police conducting a thorough investigation.

Serbia's notorious pro-government tabloid, Informer, on Monday - under the front-page headline reading, "America and the EU paying liars and racketeers" - accused the investigative media organizations KRIK, CINS and BIRN, as well as the daily Kurir, of being financed by Western countries to destabilise the country.

Serbia's pro-government tabloid Informer on Thursday accused KRIK journalist Stevan Dojcinovic of planning to publish a false article about Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, alleging he had concealed ownership of millions-worth of assets.

The new Serbian organized crime prosecutorMladen Nenadic not only faces a tough job dealing with his caseload, but will be under close scrutiny because he was a controversial choice for the job.

After several hours of debate in the Serbian National Assembly on Monday, 139 of the 169 MPs present voted for Nenadic.

Informer announced on Tuesday that it will publish an article next week revealing who is financing three Serbian "anti-government" media organisations.

Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali has denied a media report that he owns a string of properties in Bulgaria.

In a statement, he said he owns only one apartment in Bulgaria, which he reported to the Anti-Corruption Agency when he became an adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister in January 2103.

NUNS has protested in the strongest terms the decision of Russian authorities to deny entry to a journalist.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) said it "expects the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian embassy to explain why Stevan Dojcinovic was not able to stay in that country," a statement said.