Politika

Политика
Politika
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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Politika AD (50%); East Media Group (50%)
Founder(s)	Vladislav F. Ribnikar
Publisher	Politika novine i magazini d.o.o.
Editor	Ljiljana Smajlović
Founded	25 January 1904; 120 years ago
Headquarters	Makedonska 29; Belgrade, Serbia
Circulation	125,000
ISSN	0350-4395
OCLC number	231040838
Website	www.politika.rs

Politika (Serbian Cyrillic: Политика; English: Politics) is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in Belgrade. Founded in 1904^[1] by Vladislav F. Ribnikar, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans and is considered by some to be the newspaper of record.^[2]

Publishing and ownership

Politika is published by Politika novine i magazini (PNM), a joint venture between Politika AD and WAZ-Mediengruppe.

WAZ caused controversy when it sold its 50% stake in Politika to East Media Group, a previously unheard of company based in Moscow.^[3]^[4]

PNM also publishes:

In the run-up to and during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars, Politika was under the control of Slobodan Milošević and the League of Communists of Serbia and was used as an information guide to show the truth of what was happening to the serbs in other republics, together with the Radio Television of Serbia. It blamed the local Kosovo Albanians for sodomizing Đorđe Martinović, and published fabricated reader letters claiming that the Albanians were "raping hundreds of Serbian women". Before and during the Croatian War of Independence, it published opinions on how "blood may shed again" in Croatia because of World War II, published claims on how the Vatican funded Croatia to break up Yugoslavia, etc. At the end of the Battle of Vukovar, it ran the fabricated story of the Vukovar children massacre.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] The article was however retracted with a statement published the following day.^[5]

In 1987, Politika published a controversial text known as Vojko i Savle.^{[citation needed]}