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The public service broadcaster has, from 2020 to the present, contracted advertising for its own TV programs in pro-regime tabloids worth over 90 million dinars (approximately 780,000 euros), according to data from the Public Procurement Administration. RTS is the largest individual advertiser on the list of around forty public institutions and organizations that issue tenders for advertising and award contracts to tabloids. Why RTS, a non-commercial television station with the widest coverage, needs advertising in other media, particularly the least professional ones, remains unanswered by the public service.

Due to the continuous broadcasting of content that insults the dignity of the Montenegrin people, denies Montenegrin national identity, incites hate speech and discrimination, and demeans the dignity of citizens and institutions of Montenegro, the Council of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (SAMU) has made a decision to temporarily limit the reception and rebroadcasting of the entire program of "Informer TV," whose broadcaster is the company "Insajder Team" d.o.o. from Serbia, as announced by the AMU.

After his visit to Serbia from May 18 to 21, 2026, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O'Flaherty, stated that the situation has worsened since his previous visit in April 2025.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) and the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) announced that their offices will be open on Saturday, May 23, for all journalists and media workers.

Based on the competition for project co-financing of media content in Serbia for the year 2026, funds have so far been distributed to 28 local governments, amounting to a total of over 355 million dinars.

While a panel discussion on the polarization of Serbian society was being held at the editorial office of the local Slovak-Serbian media outlet Storyteller at the end of April, stands of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party were "coincidentally" positioned in front of the doors. For the journalists of this independent minority media from Kulpin, this is neither the first nor, they say, probably the last pressure they are experiencing. This is their story.

For three projects related to children, health, and cultural landmarks in Belgrade, Informer received 10.5 million dinars (approximately 90,000 euros) from the Belgrade budget last year. We scrutinized the content published under these projects: not only were the articles that cost millions short, superficial, and trivial, but in some cases, journalists "lifted" sentences and paragraphs from other media or their own older articles, and for the project on cultural landmarks in Belgrade (3.5 million dinars), they even plagiarized texts from the official city website. They were no less lazy when it came to sourcing interviewees, as they simply used quotes from other media for some articles without citing the sources.

Former KRIK journalist Jelena Radivojević stated today at the trial involving KRIK, following a lawsuit from the judge of the Appellate Court in Belgrade, Dušanka Đorđević, that she believes this is a clear example of an attempt to intimidate journalists. “The judge and her husband requested that no more articles be written about them and that previous texts be deleted – not because anything is inaccurate, but because they claim we do not have the right to write about it, even though the judge is a public official,” Radivojević noted.

“How did the system collapse? I believe that this question best illustrates where Serbia stands today regarding the safety of journalists. What we are witnessing are not isolated incidents. This is not a temporary deterioration of the situation. It is a collapse of the mechanisms that are supposed to prevent attacks, protect journalists, investigate threats, and ensure accountability,” emphasized Tamara Filipović Stevanović, the General Secretary of the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS), at the two-day OSCE conference “Strengthening Journalism as a Public Good.” According to her, what we are witnessing are not isolated incidents and it is not a temporary deterioration of the situation.