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Media expert Branimir Grulović has been selected as a member of the committee for evaluating media projects in 44 local governments out of 87 decision-making bodies established so far for project evaluation, as reported by the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) based on insights from the Unified Information System (JIS).

The Minister of Information and Telecommunications, Boris Bratina, stated today that Radio-Television of Vojvodina (RTV) receives financial support from the government amounting to 75 million dinars each month.

The Basic Court in Novi Sad has issued a ruling approving the request for a temporary measure in the proceedings initiated by N1 and Nova S against the Center for Social Stability, due to the unauthorized broadcasting of video content that, as stated in the lawsuit, contains false and harmful claims about the journalists of these television stations.

Starting today and in the coming days, the Vranje News portal will analyze the media competitions of the City of Vranje and the Ministry of Information, with an emphasis on how the media from Vranje, as well as from other cities that received funds from the citizens of Vranje through the city budget, fared in these competitions. The initial article pertains to how the projects of several media outlets owned by Zoran Zuja Veličković were evaluated in the competitions.

The deadline for proposing candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) is until May 23. The Council's task is to monitor the quality and diversity of content in electronic media, impose measures if television stations do not comply with regulations, and issue operating licenses.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) believes that the decision of the municipality of Sjenica to limit this year's competitions for co-financing media content exclusively to television broadcasters and media in the languages of national minorities constitutes discrimination against other media.

N1 condemns the inappropriate touching of their journalist at the press conference in Niš.

The President of the Committee of the Assembly of Serbia for European Integrations, Elvira Kovač, stated today that a new set of media and electoral laws, as well as the election of a new Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), which she referred to as the "condition of all conditions" for the opening of Cluster 3 in Serbia's negotiations for accession to the European Union, could be adopted by mid-June.

The SafeJournalists network strongly condemns the physical attack and threats directed at the journalistic team of the show *Provjereno* from Nove TV, which occurred during the filming of a news story about the destruction of the area along the Una River, in the Štrbački Buk region.