Velimir Ilic

Djindjic was assassinated because he was about to strike a mortal blow to one of the most powerful criminal syndicates in the country. The people who murdered him acted in order to avoid going to prison. He was killed in a conspiracy concocted by the Zemun Clan, a band of thugs from Serbia's underworld, and members of the country's security establishment.

Aleksandar Vucic says he asked SNS Assembly members to secure a stable majority themselves to elect Ana Brnabic as prime minister.

Opposition New Party member and former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic told BIRN that prosecutors should launch an investigation into health minister Zlatibor Loncar over his alleged connections with the notorious Zemun Clan, whose members were found guilty of murdering Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003.

The Nova Srbija (New Serbia, NS) party will sign a coalition agreement will this coming weekend with the SNS, in order to go to early elections together.

NS leader and cabinet minister Velimir Ilic announced this on Friday.

KRALJEVO - Part of the embankment on the River Ribnica near Kraljevo, built to provide permanent flood protection to homes along the riverbanks, has been washed away by a swollen river because local firm Zapadna Morava had done a poor constructing job.

BELGRADE - The State Audit Institution (DRI) announced on Thursday that it has filed 204 requests to launch misdemeanour proceedings, 17 criminal charges and 19 corporate offence charges against current and former officials.

PM "takes responsibility - but doesn't know what for"

OBRENOVAC -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says the Serbian Army (VS) is conducting "a professional investigation" into the crash of one of its helicopters last week.

The results will be published "soon," Vucic told reporters in Obrenovac on Tuesday.

CACAK - A total of 36,000 landslide sites have been registered in Serbia, Minister for Emergency Situations Velimir Ilic has said in Cacak, expressing concern that new ones may appear once the snow melts.

Serbia has 36,000 landslide sites - minister

CACAK -- A total of 36,000 landslide sites have been registered in Serbia, Minister for Emergency Situations Velimir Ilic said on Thursday in Cacak, central Serbia.

He added he was worried that "new ones may appear once the snow melts."

Bogoljub Karic's big return

Bogoljub Karic, businessman and leader of "Serbian power movement" will be back in Serbia only if indictment against him about "Mobtel" affair is withdrawed.

According to "Blic", Karic, who lives in Moscow, where he escaped from Interpol's wanted list, has no intention of coming back to Serbia and risk of being arrested on the airport.