Announcements

The weekly publication *Radar* published on November 21, 2024, an article by prominent journalist Vuk Cvijić about the "collapse of Serbia's electricity system," based on facts presented by a competent source, Doctor of Electrical Engineering Bojan Ivanović, who has been working for 26 years at the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS), the Serbian Electric Power Grid (EMS), and Electric Distribution (EDS).

The student editorial team "Blokada Info" has still not received all the equipment that was confiscated from them on September 5 of this year at the Rectorate in Novi Sad, when the police, along with the rector, entered the premises and held students and citizens confined for several hours.

Member of the Main Board of the largest ruling party SNS, Siniša Vučinić, after recently announcing on Informer the murder of student P. C., has now posted a message on social media spreading hate speech and targeting and insulting citizens who are protesting, as well as journalists and the media.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns the endangerment of the safety of student and activist P.C. by Siniša Vučinić on TV Informer, who made a disturbing announcement about a potential murder. Although Vučinić later apologized and stated that he mentioned it only hypothetically, this does not justify the publicly spoken word and intimidation, and it is unacceptable to mention names and target individuals in such a context.

Smiljana Milinkov, a journalism professor and head of the Department of Media Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, has received a death threat. A message arrived at the official address of the faculty: "The Black Hand has marked you."

The Russian intelligence services claim that critical and independent media, with the help of the European Union, aim to provoke a "Serbian Maidan." The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) assesses this as conducting a special propaganda war that further endangers the safety of journalists and local media that professionally report on events in Serbia.

Another threat has been directed at Dinko Gruhonjić, a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, this time in the form of a letter that arrived at the faculty’s address, signed "Greetings from Ratko Mladić".

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns yet another threat received by Dinko Gruhonjić, this time via phone calls and SMS messages in which his family is threatened with death.

The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has not yet responded to the request from journalistic and media associations for changes to the process of project co-financing of media content. Based on the application form for registration in the register for members of the new commissions, it is evident that none of the proposals regarding the scoring of candidates has been accepted.