Press: Election fever, NIS deal

Presidential candidates are aware time is short until the end of campaigning, and today's newspapers' front pages reflect this. ALO—"I will not hurl insults", is the title the paper chose for its interview with President Boris Tadic, who is running to be reelected. Press: Election fever, NIS deal Serbian volleyball national team has qualified for the Beijing Olympics, prompting a headline that reads, "Serbia all the way to Beijing", a pun on a 1990s slogan, which suggested that an ever-expanding Serbia would eventually reach Tokyo. BLIC—"Americans in charge of Nikolic's campaign", the daily reveals, and explains that the Radicals have hired a U.S. PR firm to shape their mostly anti-U.S. campaign. "New Serbian passports in royal red", says the headline to an article exploring the color of the new Serbian travel documents that will be issued starting March. "Serbia's Olympic spike in Izmir", is also about the volleyball qualifying tournament, held in Turkey. BORBA—"Using internet to get to voters" is a front page article about ongoing presidential election campaigning. "On Kosovo on Wednesday", announces a UN Security Council session. VECERENJE NOVOSTI—"Investments full throttle ahead", reports that a controversial energy deal with Russia is ever closer. The Democrats' Political Council Chairman Dragoljub Micunovic is interviewed under, "Against Radical policies". GAZETA—"I will never surrender Kosovo", Tadic says on the front page. "Radical MP beaten", is about an incident that took place early Sunday, when SRS member Nemanja Sarovic was reportedly assaulted by several DS activists. GLAS JAVNOSTI—"Moscow was 'Cyprus'" says a cryptic headline, reporting about Euroaxis Bank's business. Meanwhile, Russia's new NATO ambassador, Dmitry Rogozin, is interviewed by the paper, under the headline, "There will be no Greater Albania". As seven Serbian tennis players are set to take part in this year's Australia Open, another article speculates about what this may come to: "First Serbian Grand Slam?" DANAS—As if to express fatigue with the campaigns, the daily looks four days ahead in its front-page headline: "Electoral silence starts at midnight Thursday". "Vuk Jeremic: Kosovo's partition possible", quotes an interview the foreign minister granted to Germany's Der Spiegel, reported in our pages Sunday. "Incredible change of luck for Beijing", is about the volleyball team success. KURIR—"Do not blackmail", is about the Gazprom offer for NIS, where the message was allegedly sent by the Russians. The wife of exiled tycoon Bogoljub Karic, Milanaka, who is running for president in this election, is quoted in true tabloid style: "Bogoljub has lost 14 kilos". "Spaniards fell", is about the volleyball squad victory. Dmitry Rogozin's statements also caught the daily's attention, and it reported them under, "Radovan is my countryman", referring to war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, and revealing that one of Rogozin's maternal grandparents was a Serb, although the actual quotes from the new Russian NATO ambassador suggest that Karadzic "could" be his relative. POLITIKA—"Planned sabotage", claims the daily, as it reports about a helicopter crash Saturday that killed 11 Macedonian troops near Skopje, and quotes eyewitness statements that "explosions were heard" before the aircraft went down. More on the Gazprom-NIS saga under, "51 percent of NIS worth at least EUR 2bn".

Press: Election fever, NIS deal

Serbian volleyball national team has qualified for the Beijing Olympics, prompting a headline that reads, "Serbia all the way to Beijing", a pun on a 1990s slogan, which suggested that an ever-expanding Serbia would eventually reach Tokyo.

BLIC—"Americans in charge of Nikolić's campaign", the daily reveals, and explains that the Radicals have hired a U.S. PR firm to shape their mostly anti-U.S. campaign.

"New Serbian passports in royal red", says the headline to an article exploring the color of the new Serbian travel documents that will be issued starting March.

"Serbia's Olympic spike in Izmir", is also about the volleyball qualifying tournament, held in Turkey.

BORBA—"Using internet to get to voters" is a front page article about ongoing presidential election campaigning.

"On Kosovo on Wednesday", announces a UN Security Council session.

VEČERENJE NOVOSTI—"Investments full throttle ahead", reports that a controversial energy deal with Russia is ever closer.

The Democrats' Political Council Chairman Dragoljub Mićunović is interviewed under, "Against Radical policies".

GAZETA—"I will never surrender Kosovo", Tadić says on the front page.

"Radical MP beaten", is about an incident that took place early Sunday, when SRS member Nemanja Šarović was reportedly assaulted by several DS activists.

GLAS JAVNOSTI—"Moscow was 'Cyprus'" says a cryptic headline, reporting about Euroaxis Bank's business.

Meanwhile, Russia's new NATO ambassador, Dmitry Rogozin, is interviewed by the paper, under the headline, "There will be no Greater Albania".

As seven Serbian tennis players are set to take part in this year's Australia Open, another article speculates about what this may come to: "First Serbian Grand Slam?"

DANAS—As if to express fatigue with the campaigns, the daily looks four days ahead in its front-page headline: "Electoral silence starts at midnight Thursday".

"Vuk Jeremić: Kosovo's partition possible", quotes an interview the foreign minister granted to Germany's Der Spiegel, reported in our pages Sunday.

"Incredible change of luck for Beijing", is about the volleyball team success.

KURIR—"Do not blackmail", is about the Gazprom offer for NIS, where the message was allegedly sent by the Russians.

The wife of exiled tycoon Bogoljub Karić, Milanaka, who is running for president in this election, is quoted in true tabloid style: "Bogoljub has lost 14 kilos".

"Spaniards fell", is about the volleyball squad victory.

Dmitry Rogozin's statements also caught the daily's attention, and it reported them under, "Radovan is my countryman", referring to war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadžić, and revealing that one of Rogozin's maternal grandparents was a Serb, although the actual quotes from the new Russian NATO ambassador suggest that Karadžić "could" be his relative.

POLITIKA—"Planned sabotage", claims the daily, as it reports about a helicopter crash Saturday that killed 11 Macedonian troops near Skopje, and quotes eyewitness statements that "explosions were heard" before the aircraft went down.

More on the Gazprom-NIS saga under, "51 percent of NIS worth at least EUR 2bn".