Dan (newspaper)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Jumedia Mont d.o.o |
| Editor | Mladen Milutinović (acting) |
| Founded | December 31, 1998 |
| Political alignment | opposition |
| Language | Serbian |
| Headquarters | 13. jula bb, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro |
| ISSN | 1450-7943 |
| Website | www.dan.co.me |
Dan (English: The Day; Serbian Cyrillic: Дан) is a daily newspaper published in Montenegro. Its first issue appeared on December 31, 1998. It took its name from the old day Cetinje monthly newspaper that was published in the old Montenegrin state at the beginning of the 20th century. It is one of the most read newspapers in Montenegro, for a time being the most popular, it now holds the second place after The News with a share of an estimated 31,6% of the country's total readers[1].
Right from its start, Dan was one of the harshest critics of Milo Đukanović's regime in Montenegro. In May 2001, as Croatian magazine Nacional) began a series of articles and insider interviews on state-sponsored cigarette smuggling in Montenegro under Djukanovic's regime, Dan was the only media outlet in the country to bring the details of the 'Nacional affair' to the Montenegrin public.
At around 11:45pm on May 27, 2004 Dan founder and editor-in-chief Duško Jovanović was assassinated on a Podgorica street in front of the paper's offices. Even though a prolonged police investigation produced a couple of arrests, along with an immediate assassin-suspect currently on trial, the individuals behind the murder have still not been identified. It is alleged that the DPS-controlled government both sponsored and covered up the event.
Furthermore, on July 11, 2005, an unidentified male left an explosive device in front of the paper's Podgorica offices. Luckily it did not activate.[1]
On June 3, 2006, Montenegrin state prosecutor Vesna Medenica decided to press charges against Dan columnist Dragan Rosandić due to the first post-referendum text in his regular column. The charge claims that through his piece Prokleta avlija, Rosandić "exposed to ridicule the peoples, national and ethnic groups of Montenegro that voted for Montenegrin independence".[2] The charges were later dropped as unfounded.