Milos Jankovic

Deputy Ombudsman Milos Jankovic says the fact that the number of Serbians who are in favor of reintroducing the death penalty is on the rise is worrying.

According to Jankovic, who spoke on the occasion of October 10, World and European Day Against the Death Penalty, last year a little over half of those surveyed favored this, while now the number has reached over two thirds.

Deputy Ombudsman Milos Jankovic says the fact that the number of Serbians who are in favor of reintroducing the death penalty is on the rise is worrying.

According to Jankovic, who spoke on the occasion of October 10, World and European Day Against the Death Penalty, last year a little over half of those surveyed favored this, while now the number has reached over two thirds.

Work to produce a new media strategy will begin during the summer, Assistant Minister of Culture and Information Milos Jankovic has announced.

Jankovic spoke during a debate dubbed, "Who owns the media in Serbia," Tanjug has reported.

Supporters of the Let's Not Drown Belgrade campaign that opposes a government-backed plan to develop the city's riverfront say police officers denied them access to the site during Sunday's official foundation stone laying ceremony.

BELGRADE - Torture does not exist in Serbia as a systemically organised and encouraged phenomenon, but there are individual cases of abuse, which are tolerated by the authorities, Deputy Ombudsman Milos Jankovic said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - An exhibition titled Regimental and Volunteer Flags From the Great War, authored by Andjelija Radovic, opened at the Military Museum in Belgrade on Friday.

The exhibition was opened on the Day of the Military Museum, commemorating August 22, 1878, when Prince Milan Obrenovic established the institution by a decree.

BELGRADE - Deputy Protector of Citizens Milos Jankovic has said that more than 4,000 migrants from Asian and African countries whose ultimate goal is reaching Western Europe countries expressed intention to seek asylum in Serbia in the first half of this year.