Novi Sad

Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Wednesday that a major arms smuggling ring linked to France has been dismantled.

This followed the arrest of two Serbian nationals in the latest police clampdown in Novi Sad.

November 25, the day of Vojvodina's unification with Serbia, has been marked in Serbia's northern province.

Novi Sad Mayor Milos Vucevic and City Assembly President Jelena Crnogorac laid a wreath at a memorial plaque to the participants of the Great National Assembly.

Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic is visiting Iran where she chose to wear a black hijab during her meetings with Iranian officials.

Playwright and activist Biljana Srbljanovic has commented on this "choice of wardrobe", the Novi Sad-based website 021.rs is reporting:

RS President Milorad Dodik says it is good that Serbia is building build good relations in the region - but believes it has chosen the wrong partner in Bosnia.

During the past few days Novi Sad residents have been contacted by persons impersonating the town's Health Center employees, the website 021.rs is reporting.

According to the same source, these "doctors" offered citizens the possibility of having "blood samples drawn (for testing) in their homes."

Opposition officials say freedom of speech was violated after ruling party activists on Tuesday stopped opposition officials from holding a press conference in the northern city of Novi Sad.

After privatization of the state-owned media in Serbia started last week, the opposition Democratic Party has accused the ruling Progressive Party of trying to buy up some media outlets, hiding behind "front" companies to do so.

Bojan Pajtic has said that those who wrote the "Death to Pajtic" graffiti in Novi Sad "are known," and accused the police of not preventing them.

The Novi Sad-based 021.rs website is reporting that hate graffiti have appeared in Novi Sad's streets targeting the leader of the DS party Bojan Pajtic.

Pajtic also heads the provincial government in Vojvodina.

Members of the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) in Novi Sad on Tuesday discovered 30 illegal migrants from Syria and Turkey.

The police said the migrants were found while traveling in seven vehicles on the Subotica-Belgrade highway.