Kurir

Kurir is a Serb Quotidien published in Belgrade. It appeared for the first time the May 6th 2003. It belongs to Radisav Rodić which also has the daily newspaper Glas javnosti. Newspaper with the corrosive tone, even irrévérentieux, Kurir exerts an important influence on the public opinion in Serbia. Since the May 6th 2006, it leaves an special edition for the countries the Western Europe.

History

The history of Kurir goes up with the assassination of the Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Đinđić the March 12th 2003. After its death, the state of emergency was issued and, the March 18th 2003, the Minister for the culture and information Branislav Lečić suspended for a time the daily newspaper the Nacional , because it called into question the state of emergency while wondering about his true raison d'être. The bankruptcy court of the town of Belgrade pronounced its défitive prohibition and its liquidation on April 1st 2003. The team of the Nacional then created the daily newspaper Kurir , which resembled by its corrosive tone the old prohibited newspaper.

The newspaper played a part in the fall of the government of the Prime Minister Zoran Živković; end 2003, Kurir blamed of the doubtful practices of vote at the Parlement of Serbia and was caught some particularly with the deputy Neda Arnerić. The coalition which directed Serbia then, the Democratic opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije), flew in glare. The newspaper called some with new elections. Articles were written blaming the Minister of Interior Department Dušan Mihajlović, showing it to have concluded from the fraudulent markets via its Lutra company. The newspaper undoubtedly held its sources of members of the party G17+, which, knowing the taste of Kurir for information with scandal, benefitted from it to compromise gouverment and to get rid of a political enemy. But G17 was also attacked by the newspaper. Articles reflect in question the president of the party Miroljub Labus in a business of conflict of interests: having obtained a grant for his/her daughter via the group Ericsson, Labus took share with the negotiations between the Swedish company and the national group Telekom Srbija. A little later, the governor of the national Bank of Serbia, Radovan Jelašić was blamed in the purchase its villa Dedinje.

The December 8th 2005, 90% of the personnel of Kurir left the newspaper, and in particular its editor association Đoko Kesić and its vice-president Dragan J. Vučićević. They créérent, with others, the daily newspaper Close .

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