The tone of the transformation of the Serbian government media in covering the huge protests, the test leader

When tens of thousands of demonstrators prevented three main bridges across the Danube River, the second largest city in Serbia, this week, the country besieged the country in the country issued a strict warning-not for the demonstrators but to the broadcasting service that is controlled in the country to report About reporting they.

After mostly three months of the street demonstrations led by students across the country, Serbia, the radio television, which was prominent in Polan, to President Alexander Fuzic, suddenly turned the gears and put the protests in Novey sad over the news bulletins.

Worse, at least for the ruling party, it was actually reported without condemning the demonstrators as a traitors in the salaries of foreign intelligence services or dolls from the opposition, as they were in the past.

The Serbian Progressive Party of President Vioichk complained in an extraordinary statement late on Saturday about the “scandalous reports” by the broadcaster, saying that “he greatly misunderstood the press profession by bending with politicians who will destroy the constitutional system of the Republic of Serbia.”

Control of the media was a major pillar of the Serbia regime during the reign of Mr. Vucic, which allowed it to overcome multiple rounds of protests through the demonstrators’ demonstrators and the distortion of the demonstrators, and to maintain a strong grip on power for more than 12 years.

However, many people now ask whether this control is sliding, and that is increasingly authoritarian judgment of the president.

“This is a small but maybe revolutionary change,” said Yassma Bonovic, a veteran state prosecutor in Belgrade. She added that the loyalists for a long time were hesitating throughout the regime because they “get rid of their fear” from losing their jobs in the state or facing disciplinary work.

She said that many judges and prosecutors you know, although everyone ultimately depends on the state for their professions, now support students, at least separately. On Sunday, the Bar Association in Serbia voted the lawyers to suspend work for a month in solidarity with students, who prepared universities throughout the country.

Weekly weekend protests in Novi Sad, which were held three months after the newly renewed railway in the city, kill 15 people, not only was limited to students from local universities and Belgrade, but also crowds of elderly people angry at what they see as a well -known system Corruption.

The collapse was crushed on November 1 from a concrete umbrella at the entrances to the station, the people below it and the protest movement on the snowball, which was driven by the belief that official negligence and graft were responsible for the tragedy. The station was renewed by a consortium from the state -owned Chinese companies, and the umbrella was carried out by a private Serbian contractor who was promoted by officials.

The recent protests over several weekends represent the largest flow of discontent since the street demonstrations in the late 1990s against Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian national leader during the Balkan wars that followed the collapse of Communist Yugoslavia.

Svetlana Bistrovic, 43, a nurse and mother of two children, said she decided to chant for students who block a major railway and the Road Bridge in Novi Sad on Saturday after she saw Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic in a basketball match on Friday evening wearing a shirt with the phrase ” Students are the heroes. “

A banner decorated with protest slogans and characterized by a plastic tennis striker.

She said that Mr. Djokovic, whose family in the past was explicit in supporting President Fuzic, was standing next to the demonstrators, showing that “change comes in this country.”

But Mr. Vocic does not show any sign of surrender. Last week, his Prime Minister, Milos Vosfic, a loyal ally, a former Novi Sad mayor and head of the ruling party, known as SNS, abandoned the country without a government.

But Mr. Vcic, is sure that his party can defeat the opposition opposition parties in any new elections, given the stadium that is unequal, has since pledged to be attacked against its political opponents and contact the public elections if Parliament fails to agree to a new government according to its desire.

“I will not give anyone this country on a dish,” the supporters said on Saturday. “I will fight, fight and fight.”

Nipgsa Vladislajevich, a professor of political science at the University of Belgrade, described Serbia as a “dictatorial dictatorship”, which, like other governments after communism in neighboring Hungary and other places, “less repressive but more tampered.”

He said that the sudden shift in correspondence by the state broadcaster, “RTS” is just part of a game to show that there is little fair media coverage.

He added that Mr. Vocic still controls a battery of strong media weapons, such as a private TV station, which is still uncomfortable. A group of glass tablidoids does not appear any sign of the frequency in its support for the president.

The tablous newspaper, like the informant, a particularly evil attack dog for the government, saved students to students as they serve the neighboring Croatia, the main enemy in Serbia during the 1990s wars on the ruins of Yugoslavia.

Mila Bagic, a university student in November, said that she was photographed by the government alignment media as “mentally unstable.” She had a demon as a hostility to the Serbian, as she published a video clip about her argument with her boyfriend and confirmed that the couple were fighting about secret financing from abroad. She accused her of being in Cahoots with Croatia.

She said that the story of the tablide was “invented completely” and turned “an ordinary argument between two people in the twenties into a national scandal.”

She said that the state broadcaster turns into a more sympathetic coverage of the protests “is not a big step forward, but it is a small step in the right direction.”

Mr. Vladislajevich, the political scientist Belgrade, explained the condemnation of the ruling party for RTS journalists to cover neutral events in Novi Sad as a “preventive step to keep them in a line” and a message to the extremely party rural base that “has not really changed.”

“They are concerned that the media may fluctuate. They are concerned about the army, about the prosecutors, everyone.” But we are not at a turning point yet. “