Pravda (Serbia)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Pravda Press d.o.o. |
| Editor | Predrag Popović |
| Founded | 5 March 2007 |
| Political alignment |
Sensationalism Populism pro-SRS (2007-2008) Pro-SNS (2008-2012) |
| Ceased publication | 1 June 2012 |
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| Website | www |
Pravda (Serbian Cyrillic: Правда, which means "Justice") was a daily tabloid newspaper published in Belgrade, Serbia.
Pravda was published by Pravda Press, a limited liability company with Nemanja Stefanović (48%), Jugoslav Petković (47%), and Nikola Petrović (5%) listed as its owners. Nemanja Stefanović's brother is Nebojša Stefanović, a Serbian Radical Party (SRS) and later Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) official.
The first issue of Pravda appeared on 5 March 2007, about six weeks after the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, in which the most popular political party in Serbia at the time, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) led by Vojislav Šešelj who had been in the dock at the Hague since 2003, once again won the most seats (81 out of 250). Still, despite yet another impressive electoral showing, SRS had trouble forming a government due to facing a situation where no other party wanted to enter into a coalition with them. Within days of the premiere issue, journalist Predrag Popović, who previously edited Nacional, became editor-in-chief. Popović would later reveal that he had been hired by Aleksandar Vučić, a high-ranking SRS official at the time.
Pravda adopted an anti-establishment editorial policy within the Serbian context and was critical of the Serbian ruling coalition formed around the policy of cohabitation between prime minister Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the president of the republic Boris Tadić of the Democratic Party (DS). The paper generally espoused rightist political views and promoted the SRS political agenda. Pravda created minor controversy in Serbia when in November 2007 it started publishing irregular columns by Mira Marković, the wife of late Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević and herself a fugitive from the Serbian justice system.
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