Pavle Dimitrijevic

The Serbian NGO Centre for Research, Transparency, and Accountability, CRTA, said that it has already received several hundred complaints from voters about the media coverage of the campaign for the March 4 local elections in Belgrade.

Using a special platform on CRTA's website, people have filed 308 complaints to the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Media so far.

Despite the fact that Serbia's Electoral Commission, RIK, has rejected a complaint against the presidential candidacy of spoof character Ljubisa Preletacevic - Beli, confirming his bid on Tuesday, supporters of the now well-known satirist still fear his campaign might be overturned.

Ban on entry of the head of Serbia's Kosovo Office - one of several recent bans - is designed to remind Belgrade that Kosovo does not want the Serbian election campaign conducted on its territory, experts say.

Serbian officials have rushed to quash rumours that the only Serbian university in Kosovo could be placed under the control of the Kosovo government.

Pavle Dimitrijevic, head of the Bureau for Social Research, BIRODI, told BIRN that rumours that the University of Pristina could be integated into independent Kosovo's institutions were false.

The process of implementing EU-led Serbia-Kosovo agreements on the Serbian side is marked by a lack of transparency, while much of the decision-making is in the hands of Srpska List, a Kosovo Serbian party backed by the Belgrade government.

These are the results of a report published last week by a Belgrade think tank, the Bureau for Social Research, BIRODI.