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On the last day of the deadline for submitting proposals for candidates for members of the REM Council, some names that will be in the running are already known.

This year, there have been 125 recorded attacks and pressures on female and male journalists, while there were 166 such incidents in the entire previous year, stated Marija Babić, a lawyer from the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS), today in Niš.

After the A1 portal pointed out irregularities in the competition announced by the Municipality of Sjenica in April of this year – which was intended exclusively for television stations – the local authorities retracted the previous decision and announced a new public competition, this time open to all public information services.

An email warning was sent yesterday to the email addresses of several editorial offices, stating that they will face criminal prosecution if they continue to publish "unfounded and offensive comments" regarding Aleksandar Vučić. The email also indicated that three advisors, who are allegedly associates of the company Meta, will assist in the fight against these media outlets.

From the 80,750,000 dinars allocated by the City of Niš for co-financing media content production projects, 29 projects received a total of 54,170,000 dinars, with the largest share (24 million) going to RTV *Zona plus*, owned by the youngest son of Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić. While in previous years, media outlets owned by Vidosav Vitko Radomirović received the most funding, this time none of the media from his empire received a single dinar. Notably, the portal *Niška inicijativa*, run by Srđan Nonić, made its debut among the recipients with 590,000 dinars.

The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia condemned the layoffs at Radio Television of Serbia, as well as the reasons that led to them.

The Media Fund Serbia is a program implemented by the Balkan Trust for Democracy of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in Belgrade/Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway (NMFA) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Serbia (SDC).

Three media laws were presented at the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications to members of the Working Group, as well as to journalistic and media associations. They are expected to be submitted to parliamentary procedure in the shortest possible time. Gordana Konstantinović, a lawyer for the UNS, claims that the presented draft text has been inaccurately represented as the text of the Working Group. However, Miloš Garić, advisor to the Minister of Information and Telecommunications, emphasizes that the members of the Working Group are very well acquainted with these three laws.

The channels Insajder TV, Blic TV, and Euronjuz Srbija were shifted to lower positions in the MTS programming schedule yesterday, without explanation or notification.