Ljiljana Smajlovic

The question is whether it is possible for the two great world powers to reach an agreement, i.e. to avoid a conflict, but also whether Serbia will be asked to choose sides if a conflict occurs.

The attack was in this way extended to publisher and journalist Slavko Curuvija, 20 years after his murder, and several days after a verdict was passed, sentencing those who carried the crime out to a total of a hundred years in prison, the commission said.

Veran Matic, the president of the Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists, has been an inevitable target over the past month and a half in a special war of sorts, that weekly Ilustrovana Politika has been waging.

Such a cover story, she said, invites violence.

At the same time, Mihajlovic denied the allegation that top state officials supports the publication of such content in the media.

After the front page in the weekly Ilustrovana Politika "The Hounds Have Been Released," and the offensive mention of US Ambassador in Belgrade Kyle Scott, this weekly has taken Ljiljana Smajlovic, a journalist, in its sights, while sanctions by the authorities are missing now, as had been the case the last week.

In a press release on Tuesday signed by the Commission's president, Veran Matic, it is added that the practice commenced with the article "Curuvija welcomed bombs" in Politika Ekspres several days prior to the killing of Slavko Curuvija (in 1999).

The front page, that features an image of a growling dog and the heading, "The Hounds Are Unleashed," has caused President Vucic's media adviser Suzana Vasiljevic to resign from the supervisory board of Politika AD, the publisher of the weekly.

BELGRADE - Wreaths were laid and candles lit in downtown Belgrade last night at the memorial to the 16 Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) employees killed in a NATO air strike in 1999.

Family members, colleagues and friends gathered in Belgrade's Aberdareva Street at 2:06 am - the exact time of the deadly strike 17 years ago - to pay their tributes, also observing a minute of silence.

BELGRADE - Wreaths were laid and candles lit in downtown Belgrade last night at the memorial to the 16 Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) employees killed in a NATO air strike in 1999.

Family members, colleagues and friends gathered in Belgrade's Aberdareva Street at 2:06 am - the exact time of the deadly strike 17 years ago - to pay their tributes, also observing a minute of silence.

BELGRADE - President of the Journalists Association of Serbia (UNS) Ljiljana Smajlovic and officials of the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) laid wreaths on Wednesday at the site of the former Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which was destroyed in NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, killing three Chinese journalists.