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Lawyer Ivan Ninic in the N1 studio — Photo: N1, article on Ivan Ninic's complaints after KRIK's Kokeza and Vidic report.

Lawyer Ivan Ninic says he filed two criminal complaints against Kokeza

Published: July 1, 2026 at 01:15 PM. Updated: July 1, 2026 at 04:10 PM.

N1 reports that lawyer Ivan Ninic said on July 1 that he filed two criminal complaints after KRIK's publication about Slavisa Kokeza's Sky messages and alleged threats against Nemanja Vidic. According to Ninic, one complaint was filed with the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against Kokeza, and the other against unidentified members of the Interior Ministry's organized-crime service on suspicion of abuse of office and assistance after a criminal act.

EducationBelgrade

On July 1, UB faculties were still waiting for the state-funded quota decision

Published: July 1, 2026 at 08:30 AM. Updated: July 2, 2026 at 04:10 PM.

N1 wrote on July 1, citing the UB Rectorate, that after entrance exams ended University of Belgrade faculties still did not have the government's decision on how many students may study on the state budget. Faculties mostly relied on last year's quotas in their admissions calls because the decision was supposed to be made before the calls were published but was delayed; on July 2, N1 separately reported that the UB Senate adopted amendments to decisions and a supplement to its opinion on the number of state-funded students, but that article does not confirm publication of the government decision.

A NIS petrol station in Serbia — Photo: BETAPHOTO/EMIL VAS/EV via Danas, article on OFAC licenses for NIS.Image credit: BETAPHOTO/EMIL VAS/EV

Politics

Danas: NIS approaches July 1 with two OFAC licenses expiring

Published: June 30, 2026 at 08:09 AM. Updated: June 30, 2026 at 01:05 PM.

Danas writes that both key OFAC licenses for NIS expire on July 1: the operating license for crude imports via JANAF and the license for Gazprom Neft-MOL talks on the Russian stake. N1 later added Hungarian context: HVG notes that the European arrest warrant for MOL chief Zsolt Hernadi remains valid, although a Budapest court refused in March to recognize the Croatian judgments; in parallel, Hungary is expanding its excess-profit tax on MOL.

Composite image of Slavisa Kokeza and Nemanja Vidic — Photo: Nemanja Jovanovic/Nova.rs/N1 via N1, article on Sky messages and threats against Vidic.Image credit: Nemanja Jovanović/Nova.rs/N1

Courts and Prosecution

Vidic seeks answers after KRIK reports alleged Kokeza-linked threats

Published: June 30, 2026 at 08:10 PM. Updated: June 30, 2026 at 09:09 PM.

On June 30, N1 and Danas relay KRIK's publication of 2020 Sky messages: according to those messages, former FSS president Slavisa Kokeza allegedly sought people to intimidate and physically attack Nemanja Vidic after his public criticism of Serbian football leadership. Vidic said he was disappointed that institutions had not told him his life was threatened and asked whether he is still in danger; Vucic replied that if a crime was committed the state will deal with it, while lawyer Borivoje Borovic told Danas/N1 that he had expected a response from the organized-crime prosecutor.

Aleksandar Vucic presents the new measures package on June 29 — Photo: Novosti, Tanjug/Rade Prelic, article on the new measures package.Image credit: Tanjug/Rade Prelic

Economy

Vucic announces measures package: pensioner payments, aid for benefit recipients and cheaper medicines

Published: June 29, 2026 at 08:15 PM. Updated: July 8, 2026 at 09:18 AM.

On June 29 Aleksandar Vucic presented a package of measures worth more than 600 million euros: pensioners were promised one-off payments of 35,000, 27,500 or 20,000 dinars depending on pension level, social-assistance recipients 25,000 dinars, families receiving child allowance 25,000 dinars per child, and pensioners with income up to 80,000 dinars 30,000 tourism vouchers worth 10,000 dinars each. N1 and Danas highlighted the pension package's cost, the end-September deadline and medicine co-payment cuts of 10-40%, while Kurir and Novosti framed the package as major state aid and added Vucic's claim that it would be paid without new debt.

Politics

BIRODI: Vucic received 67 hours in central news shows in the first four months of the year

Published: June 29, 2026 at 01:15 PM. Updated: June 29, 2026 at 04:10 PM.

BIRODI said that from January 1 to April 30, Aleksandar Vucic appeared for 67 hours in the central news programs of seven TV stations, including five national-frequency broadcasters, N1 and Nova. According to the monitoring, 57% of coverage was positive, 23% negative and 18.8% neutral; the Serbian government received just over 50 hours in total, while Prime Minister Djuro Macut was, in BIRODI's assessment, almost invisible.