Serb Progressive Party (SNS)

TV host leaves station, and journalism, citing "boycott"

BELGRADE -- Danica Vucenic has decided to quit journalism because government officials have been "boycotting her show."

Vucic urges party to support president

BELGRADE -- In the first eight months of the current government it managed to "fully maintain the country's political and economic stability," Aleksandar Vucic has said.

Vucic serves as prime minsiter as is the leader of the ruling Serb Progressive Party (SNS).

Head of health insurance fund resigns

BELGRADE -- The director of the Republic Fund for Health Insurance (RFZO) on Thursday submitted his irrevocable resignation.

The Fund confirmed that Doctor Momcilo Babic had resigned, but did not provide any more details or reasons for his decision.

Šešelj returns to Serbia, addresses supporters

BELGRADE -- Vojislav Šešelj has returned to Serbia after spending eleven and a half years in detention at the Hague Tribunal in the Netherlands.

President's son elected as mayor of Kragujevac

KRAGUJEVAC -- Radomir Nikolić, the son of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, was on Tuesday elected as mayor of his hometown of Kragujevac in central Serbia.

Albanian PM's visit "to be good and fruitful"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has said he expects the visit of Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama on November 10 to be "good and fruitful."

Govt. seeks to criminalize participation in wars abroad

BELGRADE -- The government will discuss amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure that would treat participation of Serbian citizens in wars abroad as a criminal act.

Serbian Minister of Trade and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajić announced this in an interview for the Belgrade-based daily Danas.

SNS urged "to be committed to public interest"

POŽAREVAC -- Aleksandar Vučić says "Serbia is the priority of the SNS," and "warned all members who do not realize this there will be no place for them in the party."

Vučić serves as Serbia's prime minister and is the leader of the ruling Serb Progressive Party (SNS).

"State wouldn't give tycoons subsidies - so they took state"

BELGRADE -- The opposition Democrats (DS) say the offer to Milan Beko to take over as head of Serbian Railways is an unprecedented case of flagrant violation of the law.

Pundits interpret Vulin's "great powers" comment

BELGRADE -- Political analyst Đorđe Vukadinović says Aleksandar Vulin's statement about "great powers not wanting a prime minister with large support" is "exaggerated."

The labor minister suggested earlier that PM Aleksandar Vučić was the target of criticism for that reason.