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How would you like to stay in a BEAUTIFUL 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, ground-floor condo in Fort Myers, a condo that you will remember for a long time to come, and want to visit again and again?
This beautiful furnished condo has been BEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED. The living room features a BIG SCREEN television with cable, DVD player and internet access (but you have to provide your own computer), and comfortable leather furniture--along with a small (but very nice) TV set in the bedroom as well. The bedroom features a queen-size bed, and bedroom set. The screened lanai (with sliding doors to the condo) is the perfect place for you to relax, and there is also a washer/dryer unit in the condo.
This condominium complex (Davis Woods), offers a swimming pool, a tennis court and shuffleboard. Designated parking is next to the condo. There are also plenty of exciting activities nearby--including golf courses throughout the area - like the GREAT SHELL POINT 18-hole golf course just right across the street. Close by are great beaches, including BUNCHE BEACH! Fishing, canoeing, water-skiing and other outdoor sports can be found in the immediate area, along with GREAT arts/cultural venues throughout the area.
There's an outlet mall down the street on McGregor Boulevard that's PERFECT for shoppers, and great restaurants throughout the surrounding areas! If you want groceries, there's a Publix supermarket nearby on Summerlin Road about 1 mile away. You won't get bored anytime soon!
I, the owner, live on the Davis Woods premises, and can help if you have any questions about anything!
There IS a one-time refundable $500.00 security/damage deposit to be paid no later than 7 days after condo is booked, with the remainder of the balance due no later than 60 days before your stay in the condo. This deposit will be refunded within 3 weeks after your departure if there is no damage to the condo, lost keys, missing items or extra laundry.This deposit will be refunded within 3 weeks after your departure if there is no damage to the condo, lost keys, missing items or extra laundry. Renters Who Reserve Condo Less Than 60 Days Before Arrival Pay All Costs up Front.
FEBRUARY & MARCH 2016: $1675/mo. (February & March 2016 are no longer available)
APRIL 2016: $1500/mo.
MAY-NOVEMBER 2016: $600 per month
DECEMBER 2017: (No longer available)
JANUARY 2017: (No longer available)
FEBRUARY 2017: (No longer available)
MARCH 2017:(No longer available)
APRIL 2017: (No longer available)
MAY-DECEMBER 2017: $600 per month
A $500.00 security/damage deposit is required no later than 7 days after condo is booked, with the remainder of the balance due no later than 60 days before your stay in the condo This deposit will be refunded within 3 weeks after your departure if there is no damage to the condo, lost keys, missing items or extra laundry.
Renters Who Reserve Condo Less Than 60 Days Before Arrival Pay All Costs up Front.
Renter Pays, in addition to the monthly rent, a monthly $160 internet/cable TV fee, and a one-time $95 Cleaning Fee. 6% Florida State Sales Tax and 5% Lee County Tourism and Development Tax added on to the final balance and the rent/internet/cleaning fee.
Personal Checks or bank checks are accepted! However, no Credit Cards or Cash!
Attention: locals seeking residential housing:
If you are looking for a traditional year-round residential property where the landlord picks up your check month after month, then this is probably not the condo for you. My condominium is a vacation property geared toward people who are vacationing in Southwest Florida--and VRBO is, after all, a site dedicated to vacation rentals.
Note: Until confirmed, rates are subject to change without notice.
Deposits are normally returned if notice of cancellation is received by me in writing or e-mail 90 days before your scheduled arrival date. If I receive notice in less than 90 days before your scheduled arrival, then the deposit will only be refunded if I am able to re-rent the condo for the full term of your reservation at the same rate. If I receive notice in less than 60 days, then the rental fee will be forfeited unless I can rent the condo for the full amount of your reservation at the same rate.
There is also a $50.00 administration fee for all cancellations.
No pets or smoking allowed. Please also note that the only sleeping facility is the bedroom's queen-size bed. The condo's couches do not accommodate sleepers, and I do not provide extra accommodations for overnight or extended stay visitors. It is mainly designed for singles and couples; families with children might find that this condo is a little too small to accommodate such a large group of people.
Tenants are subject to swift removal from the condo at any time if they are caught violating the laws of Lee County, the State of Florida, or the Davis Woods complex. They are also subject to swift removal from the condo at any time if they consistently interfere with the peace and quiet of other tenants at the Davis Woods complex. Use common sense and common decency and you will be fine.
If the tenant or tenants do not depart the condo by the specific date and time as stated in the rental agreement, then appropriate legal steps will be taken to have the tenant or tenants removed from the condo.
I can also offer you information about both travelers' insurance and renters' insurance, if you are interested. These types of insurance can help if an emergency comes up and you must end your stay sooner than you expected. In addition, if an unexpected matter arises and you have to relocate to another residence, please note that I am NOT responsible for the costs of your relocation. I am also not responsible for any of your items that get lost, damaged or stolen during your stay in my condo.
I believe that you will LOVE this condo!
Please contact me if you have any questions--I'll be happy to help you!
Nick provided a very clean, comfortable condo. Condo is equipped with everything you need. He was available at a moments notice if you had a question.
We look forward to our return visit next year.
Very light and bright with attractive furnishings. Close to the beach, shopping and the causeway to Sanibel Island. I stayed for two months and would have stayed longer if I could have.
I stayed in this condo twice in the last year! I found the owner to be very accommodating and very responsive to any issue I had. I would not hesitate to stay here again and would highly recommend it to family and friends. I found the condo to be extremely neat, clean, bright and even though it was a one bedroom, it had plenty of room for me during my month's stay-loved it. And one of the nicest features is the location-to able to bike over the causeway to Sanibel was wonderful!
My husband and I just spent 3 months in this GREAT condo. It is very neat and clean and so close to so many attractions such as shopping and the beach. Just minutes from Sanibel. We were very lucky in that our landlord lived on property. If we had any questions or concerns, he was more than willing to help us. This is a very welcoming place to stay and we made many good friends during our stay. I woul highly recommend this condo to anyone wanting to stay in the Fort Myers area.
My husband and I stayed here and were more than happy with it! It was very clean and neat and had everything we needed for our full month's stay. We had to cut our visit short due to family issues back home but are looking forward to staying here again in the near future! We would recommend this condo to any couple who is looking for a very pleasant and convenient place to spend a month or longer. It is close to everything we wanted to do (Sanibel Island, Naples, dolphin watching, manatee watching, etc.) We can't wait to go back!
If you are looking for a condo that so close to the beach,shopping,restaurants,pleasant surroundings,this is the one to rent.I found it clean and all the amenities that I would need. The owner was very helpful with information on local places to go with directions to some. I said I was there to relax and enjoy my reading,he left me a nice choice of books and to my privacy. I felt very comfortable there.


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Nations in Transit
2013 Scores
Democracy Score(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Regime Classification
National Democratic Governance(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Electoral Process(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Civil Society(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Independent Media(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Local Democratic Governance(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Judicial Framework and Independence(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Corruption(1 = best, 7 = worst)
Capital: Belgrade
Population: 7.3 million
GNI/capita, PPP: US$11,550
Source: The data above are drawn from The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2013.
* Starting with the 2005 edition, Freedom House introduced separate analysis and ratings for national democratic governance and local democratic governance, to provide readers with more detailed and nuanced analysis of these two important subjects.
NOTE: The ratings reflect the consensus of Freedom House, its academic advisers, and the author(s) of this report. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the author(s). The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 7 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a given year.
General elections in May 2012 yielded a new coalition government comprised of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), and the United Regions of Serbia (URS), with SPS leader and former Slobodan Milošević spokesman Ivica Dačić as prime minister. The Democratic Party (DS), which had led the government for most of the previous decade, was relegated to the opposition, reflecting broad public dissatisfaction with its stewardship of the economy, anticorruption efforts, and other governance issues. SNS leader Tomislav Nikolić also defeated incumbent and DS leader Boris Tadić in the presidential polls.
The new government placed European Union (EU) integration, relations with Kosovo, and anticorruption efforts at the top of its agenda. Despite calls for decentralization from the government and during the election campaign, the division of responsibilities between the central and local levels of power remained unclear in 2012. Right after the government's formation, the Constitutional Court handed down a ruling limiting the powers of the multiethnic Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in northern Serbia.
Though Belgrade remained emphatic in its non-recognition of Kosovo's independence, relations between the two governments showed some progress as a result of EU-facilitated bilateral negotiations. Brussels rewarded this progress by granting Serbia EU candidate status in March, a long-awaited milestone. Negotiations stalled during Serbia's election season but resumed in October with EU-mediated meetings between Dačić and Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaçi, the first high-level political encounter between the neighbors since 2008. The EU says Serbia must develop good neighborly relations with Kosovo to begin accession negotiations, which will commence no earlier than December 2013.
Burdened with a high budget deficit, the new government pushed through a package of revenue-raising measures, including a 2 percent increase in value added tax (VAT) in October. In addition to priorities such as Kosovo and EU integration, the new leadership pledged to fight organized crime and corruption. Compared with previous governments, it has shown the first real political will to take on graft and misconduct.
National Democratic Governance. Following the May general elections, the new government prioritized EU integration, anticorruption efforts, and the ongoing bilateral dialogue with Kosovo. Top-level meetings between prime ministers Dačić and Thaçi in October resulted in the implementation of a significant border management agreement in December, in connection with which Serbia won EU candidate status and was awaiting a start date to begin accession talks at year's end. Some EU countries demanded the reintroduction of visa requirements for Serbian citizens in an effort to reduce asylum seekers, but there were no formal requests to suspend visa-free travel during the year. To bolster the country's struggling economy and reduce the budget deficit, the government increased VAT for the first time. In October, President Nikolić claimed that police had tapped his phones and those of Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić; the case that remained unresolved at year's end. Serbia's national democratic governance rating remains unchanged at 3.75.
Electoral Process. May parliamentary elections deemed free and fair by monitors resulted in the formation of a new governing coalition between the SNS, SPS, and URS, led by Prime Minister Dačić of the SPS. With voters disappointed by the former government and other options on the parliamentary candidate list, the number of "white," or unmarked, ballots doubled from the previous elections, in 2008. The same month, SNS leader Nikolić defeated incumbent President Tadić in a runoff. Political parties were required to submit various financial and other campaign reports to the independent Anticorruption Agency, but many were incomplete. Serbia's electoral process rating remains unchanged at 3.25.
Civil Society. Civic groups in Serbia continued to struggle financially in 2012, with some 80 percent unable to even cover their annual costs. Most civil society organizations (CSOs) see the state as an important funder of the nonprofit sector, but still complain that government institutions are generally uninterested in their work. The leadership made no progress on minority rights in 2012 and banned the Belgrade gay pride parade for the second consecutive year on the basis of security concerns. Serbia's civil society rating remains unchanged at 2.25.
Independent Media. Although the government adopted a Media Strategy in October 2011 that aims to improve the transparency of media ownership and privatize state-owned outlets, it remains to be implemented. The state continues to own many media outlets and control the dissemination of information. Most media are struggling financially, and see state ownership as a key to their survival. Political influence on the media is high, especially during the preelection campaign season. Several print media closed shortly after the elections. There were a number unsolved attacks on journalists during the year. Serbia's independent media rating remains unchanged at 4.00.
Local Democratic Governance. Serbian politicians promoted further decentralization in their election campaigns, but once in office the government decided to cut costs by closing the Office of the National Council for Decentralization. After the new government was formed in July, many local governments reconfigured to reflect the new SNS-SPS-URS state-level coalition. The Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and its jurisdiction were drastically reduced after the Constitutional Court ruled some of its provisions unconstitutional. Some local nongovernmental organizations said the ruling threatened the province's development. Serbia's local democratic governance rating remains unchanged at 3.50.
Judicial Framework and Independence. Though the EC noted some positive steps in 2012 to improve accountability and efficiency, the judiciary continues to struggle with excessively long trials, a large case backlog, and poor access to justice, partly owing to a previous overhaul of the court network that the new government has announced plans to reverse. In September, the Constitutional Court reinstated around 300 judges, prosecutors, and deputies who lost their jobs in a controversial reappointment procedure that was part of the judicial reform. In early 2012, three years after appointing Nata Mesarović as president of the Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS), the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the Law on Judges under which she was elected. To ease prison overcrowding, the government adopted a new amnesty law that will affect some 3,500 prisoners. Serbia's judicial framework and independence rating remains unchanged at 4.50.
Corruption. One of the new government's stated priorities is the fight against corruption and organized crime. During the year, authorities pursued major corruption cases, including suspect privatizations and an ongoing, large-scale investigation of loan fraud at state-owned Agrobanka. Anticorruption Agency Director Zorana Marković was dismissed in November after allegations surfaced that she had tried to allocate a state-owned apartment for herself. Independent polls indicate that nearly half of Serbian citizens believe corruption increased in 2012, while almost 90 percent see graft and misconduct as commonplace. While the government has demonstrated the first real political will in years to tackle corruption and launched several investigations, the fight is just beginning. Serbia's corruption rating remains unchanged at 4.25.
Outlook for 2013. In 2013, Serbia's priorities will be revitalizing the economy, fighting organized crime and corruption, and continuing bilateral negotiations with Kosovo. In the next round of talks, the two sides are expected to discuss the "parallel" public health, education, and other services Belgrade funds in majority-Serb areas of Kosovo. The EU wants these shadow institutions dismantled.
At year's end, Brussels was expected to give Serbia a firm date in 2013 to start accession negotiations, which will begin no earlier than December. Among young Serbians, support for joining the EU has fallen in recent years, and stood at 41 percent at the end of 2012.[1] At the same time, 66 percent of respondents to a December survey declared support for EU accession reforms, and 62 percent specifically support "solving problems in relations between Belgrade and Priština."[2]
To improve the economy, leaders will focus on attracting foreign investment. At the end of 2012, the government began talks with the International Monetary Fund on a new loan agreement.[3]
Parliamentary elections in May yielded a new ruling coalition comprised of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), and the United Regions of Serbia (URS). SPS leader and former Slobodan Milošević spokesman Ivica Dačić became prime minister, while the Democratic Party (DS), which had led the government for most of the previous decade, was relegated to the opposition. In a runoff vote on 20 May, DS leader and incumbent president Boris Tadić lost to former ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolić, the head of the SNS. President-elect Nikolić subsequently resigned as SNS leader, saying he wanted to represent all Serbians. Tadić effectively assumed blame for DS's electoral loss by giving up his party's leadership in November.
The new government inherited a challenging economic and budgetary situation. In September, State Audit Institution (DRI) President Radoslav Sretenović informed URS leader Mlađan Dinkić, the newly appointed minister of finance and economy, that public debt in 2011 had been 49.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), rather than the 45.1 percent originally claimed by the Ministry of Finance—a difference of some €1.3 billion.[4] Shortly following this revelation, the government approved amendments to increase the value added tax (VAT) for the first time since 2005 as part of a larger package of revenue-raising measures. These efforts, the new leadership claimed, had saved the state from bankruptcy.[5]
Though Belgrade remained emphatic in its non-recognition of Kosovo's independence, relations between the two governments showed some progress in 2011 and 2012 as a result of bilateral negotiations facilitated by the European Union (EU). Following a series of meetings in 2011, negotiating envoys from Pristina and Belgrade reached two key deals in February 2012. First, Belgrade agreed to participate in regional meetings with Pristina (previously, Serbian leaders had boycotted meetings attended by Kosovar officials); and second, the two sides agreed to allow Kosovar and Serbian officials joint management of their shared border. In March, Brussels recognized this progress by granting Serbia EU candidate status, a long-awaited milestone.[6]
The official date for beginning Serbia's accession negotiations will be set in 2013. In September, a group of German parliamentarians led by Andreas Schockenhoff from the Christian Democrats visited Belgrade to present seven conditions for accession, from improving relations with Kosovo to officially recognizing as genocide the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces. Responding that these conditions only reflected "one opinion," Vincent Degert, head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, said all EU countries, not just Germany, would make the final decision on Serbia's EU application.[7]
Negotiations with Kosovo stalled after the May elections but resumed in October with meetings in Brussels between Prime Minister Dačić and Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Thaçi. Both sides called the meetings—the first high-level summits between these countries since 2008—a positive step toward further cooperation. Nevertheless, issues like the so-called "parallel" governing structures funded by Belgrade in majority-Serb areas of Kosovo remained unresolved by year's end, despite EU pressure. In December, Dačić and Thaçi did finalize the Integrated Border Management (IBM) agreement agreed to in February, which was implemented that month.[8]
At the end of 2012, some EU countries demanded the reintroduction of visa requirements for Serbian citizens wishing to travel within the union in order to decrease the number of asylum seekers, especially to Germany, which no longer deports asylum seekers under legislation passed in winter. However, there were no formal requests to revoke visa-free travel, the most concrete benefit Serbian citizens have received in the EU accession process.
In October, President Nikolić accused police of tapping his phone and that of Defense Minister Aleksandar Vučić, the new head of the SNS. Media reported that Criminal Investigations Police Chief Rodoljub Milović had signed a wiretapping warrant, which then "disappeared."[9] Milović flatly denied the allegations, calling the episode an "attack from behind."[10] A preliminary investigation showed that Nikolić and Vučić were indeed under surveillance, but no one had been charged by year's end. Vučić has pledged to get tough on corruption, even if that means investigating cases involving coalition members.[11]
Led by Nikolić, the SNS and its allies won 73 seats in the May 2012 parliamentary elections. The DS-led bloc took 67 seats, followed by the SPS-led bloc, including the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and United Serbia (JS)—which won 44. The Serbian Radical Party (SRS), led by Vojislav Šešelj, currently on trial for alleged war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, lost all of its seats.
Having won twice as many votes in 2012 as it did in 2008, the SPS bloc emerged as the kingmaker in coalition negotiations, since neither the SNS nor the DS took enough seats to govern alone. As a result, Dačić called his coalition the "real winner of the Serbian 2012 elections."[12] Initially, Dačić agreed to form a coalition with the DS, but this fell through after Nikolić defeated Tadić in a 20 May presidential runoff with 51.2 percent of the vote.[13] (Tadić had called early presidential elections after Serbia won EU candidacy.) The DS had also lost public support due to a foundering economy beset by 20-plus percent unemployment and numerous political corruption scandals.
After receiving Nikolić's blessing in June, Dačić formed a coalition government with SNS and URS in July. The DS went into opposition, and Tadić effectively assumed blame for the party's electoral losses by stepping down as its leader. He was succeeded by Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas in November.
While the elections reflected dissatisfaction with the DS, they also revealed a general loss of confidence in Serbia's political elite. Around 170,000 voters (or 4.3 percent) expressed their displeasure with all the options on offer by casting "white," or unmarked, ballots.[14] Several smaller and former opposition parties ran in the elections together on one list, called Preokret, winning 6.53 percent of the popular vote. Preokret received 19 seats in the national legislature, but did not get enough votes in Belgrade to enter the city parliament. Some Preokret members blamed the "white ballots" for their loss.
After the first round of presidential voting, on 6 May, Nikolić accused Tadić of election fraud, saying the DS had printed extra ballots. The SNS filed criminal charges,[15] but dropped them in October. DS discounted the lawsuit as part of a campaign to bolster support for Nikolić between the first round of presidential voting and the runoff. Nikolić's win was greeted with surprise in most Serbian and regional media, especially since state-owned media had reported throughout the campaign that Tadić was leading the polls.[16]
After the elections, political parties were required by law to submit campaign expense reports and donor lists to the Anticorruption Agency, which also collected parties' annual financial reports. The agency received some 400 reports, but according to a review by the Serbian branch of Transparency International (TS), most parties did not take the endeavor seriously, submitting incomplete reports with difficult-to-decipher data.[17] The agency has yet to establish a track record of effective oversight of party funding, according to an annual progress report by the European Commission (EC), published in October 2012.[18]
The May 2012 polls followed a 2011 amendment to the Law on the Election of Members of Parliament that introduced closed electoral lists, as well as a comprehensive and up-to-date voter database. Ranking on voter lists now determines who wins a parliamentary seat, so seats can no longer be transferred to other party members between elections. Under the new law, one-third of listed parliamentary candidates in May 2012 were women.
International observers declared the May elections "free, fair, and peaceful," noting an improved range of voter choice and more peaceful atmosphere than in 2008.[19] However, monitors also stated that "additional efforts are needed to further enhance the integrity of the election process, particularly with regard to the transparency of voter registration."[20
Roughly 18,000 civil society organizations (CSOs) operate in Serbia, but their impact on governance and other key areas is rather weak. According to a 2011 report by the Belgrade-based Civic Initiatives watchdog, nearly 80 percent of CSOs are underfunded. The same report finds that 70 percent of CSOs say financing is their biggest problem, and only a little more than 20 percent are able to support themselves without direct government support.[21] Some organizations do not fully understand how to access funding for projects, often because staff members are undertrained. Many CSOs also complain that international donors are pulling money out of Serbia since the 2008 global economic downturn. The private sector, meanwhile, rarely donates to CSOs.
Cooperation between civil society and government institutions is still relatively infrequent. According to Civic Initiatives, around 40 percent of CSOs say the state takes little interest in their work. In 2012, the government announced plans to cut costs by closing its Office for Cooperation with Civil Society, though ultimately the office was spared. Since launching in 2011, the office has played an important role in encouraging cooperation between CSOs and public officials.[22]
As the May elections approached, CSOs became more politically engaged. Some openly supported certain political parties, while others had members who sought office themselves. For example, Civic Initiatives founder Miljenko Dereta won a parliamentary seat on the Preokret list.
Citizens enjoy freedoms of assembly and association, though a 2009 law banned meetings of fascist organizations and the use of neo-Nazi symbols. Radical right-wing organizations and violent "sports fans" remain a serious concern, and the Constitutional Court banned a second such group in 2012.
Attacks on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) citizens occur every year. In September, a young gay man brutally beaten in Belgrade. On 6 October, the day of a planned gay pride parade in Belgrade, police banned all public demonstrations, evidently fearing a recurrence of the violence that occurred after extremists attacked a similar event in 2010. The parade has been banned for the last two years on the basis of security concerns, despite vocal objections from rights groups. Instead, a week's worth of LGBT rights–related events were held indoors, including a press conference in Belgrade's Media Center, conducted under police security. Three members of the European Parliament attended, including Marije Cornelissen of the Netherlands, who called the ban a disappointment and said the new government failed its first test by allowing extremists to win.[23] Swedish Minister for EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson warned: "This ban in a European city means discrimination, and that's not the Europe I want to live in. The EU won't accept inequality and homophobia."[24] Members of the LGBT community protested outside the Media Center where the other events were held.
The Serbian Orthodox Church remains influential and takes active positions on a number of politically sensitive issues. Patriarch Irinej openly supported banning the gay pride parade in October.[25] Media also reported that the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church had sent a strongly worded letter to President Nikolić demanding that the government reject the Integrated Border Management agreement with Kosovo, though it was not clear who sent the letter on the church's behalf.[26] Nikolić met with Patriarch Irinej a number of times in 2012, seeking support for government policy on Kosovo.
Every Serbian government since the country gained independence has promised to end state media ownership, but none has. Transparent media ownership and privatization are the main principles of the government's Media Strategy, which was adopted in 2011 but has yet to be implemented, despite a similar mandate in the 2003 Law on Media and EU pressure to expedite the process. The president of the Independent Journalism Association of Serbia (NUNS), Vukašin Obradović, warned in a July interview: " … in this way the state wants to keep media under control by being its owner even if it knows that by owning media it is breaking the law."[27]
With most media struggling financially, state ownership is one of the only ways to ensure their survival. Even outlets that criticize state ownership of media are not usually in a position to risk going it alone.
Media owned by the state or by persons with clear political interests became a ready political tool before and during the 2012 elections. The daily Pravda, for instance, is owned by an SNS member and promoted the party throughout the campaign season. The Bureau for Social Research said election reporting was characterized by "latent censorship" and "elements of propaganda."[28] According to the report, positive coverage of incumbent president Tadić completely overwhelmed positive (or even neutral) discussion of challenger Nikolić in all mainstream media, including public broadcasters.
Media ownership in Serbia is opaque and volatile, contributing to the lack of reliably balanced and analytical reporting in the country. In July, the ownership structure of Politika, the oldest daily newspaper in the Balkans, changed overnight when German media group WAZ sold its 50 percent stake to East Media Group, a murky Moscow-based company registered in January 2012. The media reacted with shock to the sudden sale, hinting at foul play. Most political parties and press associations accused DS of being behind the sale,[29] though DS denied these allegations. In November, the businessman and Delta Holding owner Miroslav Mišković announced his withdrawal from the daily Press after hiding ownership for years. In December, police arrested Mišković on corruption charges in connection with several privatizations.
Days after the end of the election season, Pravda canceled its print edition, switching to online publication only. The Econom:east magazine, which was connected to the former deputy prime minister for EU integration and minister of science and technical development, Božidad Đelić (DS), also stopped publishing only after the elections, despite the fact that the magazine had been unable to pay its staff's salaries for six months.[30] The daily Kurir founded another tabloid called San, which published for only a month-and-a-half.[31] Press canceled its print edition in November. Also in November, Avala Television stopped broadcasting, with a new channel, Pink 2, appearing on its station almost overnight. The change came after regulators blocked the sale of Avala by co-owner Željko Mitrović, who also owns TV Pink, and stripped its broadcast license for failing to pay certain fees.[32]
Internet use is rising in Serbia. In 2011, 41 percent of Serbian households had internet access, compared with 26 percent in 2007, according to the EC's October 2012 progress report.[33]
Physical attacks and harassment of journalists continued in 2012. In September, the tires of Pink TV editor Mladen Mijatović were slashed. In two separate incidents in October, attackers threw Molotov cocktails at the homes of Damir Dragić, director of the daily Informer, and Kopernikus TV journalist Biljana Vujović. Also in October, family members of former B92 journalist Tanja Janković were attacked and beaten by police; several days later a bomb was found in their yard. None of these cases had been resolved by year's end. The murders of journalists Slavko Ćuruvija (1999), Dada Vujasinović (1994), and Milan Pantić (2001) are also as yet unpunished. In 2012, the government announced plans to form a commission to determine why the investigations have failed and launch new ones with the help of international investigators.[34]
Defamation was officially decriminalized in December 2012. Earlier in the year, press freedom organizations had strongly criticized Serbia for imprisoning a journalist, Laszlo Šaš, who was unable to pay a 150,000 dinar ($1,800) defamation fine. Šaš had been convicted of insulting ultranationalist Hungarian politician Laszlo Toroczkai in a 2007 article. Two weeks into Šaš's 150-day prison sentence, President Nikolić announced a presidential pardon and the journalist was released. Towards the end of his presidential campaign, Nikolić himself brought civil defamation charges against two dailies, Kurir and Blic, demanding 200 million dinars ($2.4 million) from each.[35]
Municipal governments formed relatively quickly after local elections in May 2012. However, after a state-level coalition emerged in July, a number of newly formed local governments reconfigured themselves to reflect the power dynamics at the central level (i.e., the exclusion of the DS from the ruling coalition). In Novi Sad, Serbia's second-largest city, the local government changed in September, with the SNS candidate becoming mayor. Prime Minister Dačić expressly stated that local governments should align with the state-level coalition wherever possible.[36]
Belgrade proved a notable exception to this practice. Dragan Đilas was reelected mayor and the DS maintained power in coalition with the SPS. Representatives of the SNS announced after the elections that they would not participate in the Belgrade city administration out of respect for the party that won the majority there. Aleksandar Vučić, the SNS mayoral candidate, insisted that he could not be mayor because "it [was] known how the citizens of Belgrade [had] voted."[37] The coalition remained intact at year's end.
Most political parties publicly promote decentralization as necessary for balanced governance in Serbia. It was a key issue during the elections, and defined the URS party's entire political campaign. However, since coming to power the new government has done little more than pay lip service to decentralization, even going so far as to cut costs by shutting down the state Office of the National Council for Decentralization in October.
Before coming to power, SNS leaders warned of increased separatism in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, a multiethnic territory in northern Serbia. After Nikolić won the presidency and it became clear the SNS would join the new government, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional certain provisions in the law on establishing the jurisdiction of Vojvodina. Under the decision, Novi Sad can no longer be called the "capital city" but, rather, the "administrative center" of the province. Additionally, Vojvodina cannot have a representative office in Brussels or in other regions within its jurisdiction.[38] Some Vojvodina-based NGOs said the ruling would drastically reduce the province's autonomy and characterized it as a serious threat to Serbia's development as a modern European country—one capable of returning Serbia to "the politics of centralization during Slobodan Milošević's regime."[39] The DS, which won a majority in Vojvodina in 2008 and again in 2012, made campaign promises to protect the autonomy of the province.
Serbia's judiciary lags behind and impedes broader efforts to ensure rule of law in the country. Judicial reform in Serbia began in late 2009, but a number of its elements have proved problematic, and it has yet to be completed. In September, Serbia's new justice minister, Nikola Selaković, accused failed reforms of contributing to crime and corruption, and called the repair of the judicial system "an absolute priority."[40] Fallout from these reforms is such that the Ministry of Justice has promised to reverse the unpopular measures and introduce no new ones.[41]
Civil proceedings remain extremely slow and their effectiveness is hindered by poor implementation of judicial decisions, among other factors. In some cases, witnesses and even defendants do not show up in court. The backlog of cases continues to grow and was at nearly 3.34 million cases at the end of 2011, according to the Supreme Court of Cassation's analysis.[42]
Among other changes, the judicial overhaul initiated in 2009 attempted to increase efficiency by merging the country's 138 municipal courts into 37 basic courts, a move that has actually limited access to justice, according to Judges' Association of Serbia President Dragana Boljević: "With slower proceedings and higher costs, the judiciary is less accessible, and the court network is non-functional."[43] In October 2012, the government announced plans to roughly double the court network to 65 courts in 2013.
When the courts were merged, the number of full-time prosecutors, judges, and judicial employees was cut from 6,000 to 4,000. Particularly controversial was a related reappointment procedure in 2009 and 2010 that ultimately cost hundreds of judges and prosecutors their jobs. In July 2012, the Constitutional Court abrogated this procedure—carried out by the High Judicial Council (HJC) and State Prosecutorial Council (SPC)—because it was not impartial, as required by law, and because the SPC's decisions were based on criteria that could not be challenged by prosecutors.[44] Some 300 officials who had appealed their non-reappointment had been reinstated at year's end.
The judicial system remains vulnerable to political influence. In December 2012, the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the Law on Judges under which Nata Mesarović had been elected president of the Supreme Court of Cassation under the previous government, three years earlier. In November, Goran Knežević, SNS minister of agriculture, forestry, and water management, was acquitted of abuse of office charges after spending 13 months in detention. Knežević insisted the prosecution had been politically motivated and engineered by members of his former party, the DS. Also in November, President Nikolić pardoned—without explanation—former Red Star FC soccer player and president Dragan Džajić, who was arrested in 2010 on charges that he illegally received millions of dollars from the sale of four former Red Star players to foreign teams. The pardon came right after Deputy Prime Minister Vučić had reinstated Džajić as Red Star president.
In November, the Constitutional Court rejected a request to ban SNP Naši, a far-right extremist group. Similar organizations were banned in 2012, reflecting the subjectivity of such decisions.
Despite these shortcomings, the European Commission noted some improvements in judicial accountability during the year. The HJC and SPC introduced new internal disciplinary procedures, though the SPC has yet to establish the relevant bodies to investigate cases of misconduct and impose penalties. New laws to improve efficiency also came into force in 2012. In January, the new Criminal Procedure Code took effect in organized crime and war crimes cases, giving prosecutors primacy in gathering and presenting evidence in court. The code, which will apply to all criminal cases as of January 2013, is intended to reduce the length of investigations.[45]
To ease chronic prison overcrowding, the government fast-tracked a bill to amnesty prisoners sentenced for up to three months; those sentenced to up to six months will see their prison time halved. Passed in October, the measure affects some 3,500 of Serbia's roughly 8,000 prisoners.
Graft and misconduct remain widespread, especially in public procurement and privatization. The state has yet to establish a track record of investigating and prosecuting corruption, especially in high-profile cases. However, the new government has declared a strong commitment to anticorruption efforts and Deputy Prime Minister Vučić, who is also the coordinator of the Intelligence Services, has called the fight against corruption his "life mission."[46] Vučić says investigations will be blind to political affiliation or rank.
There was a marked uptick in high-profile arrests in the last months of 2012. In early December, Miroslav Mišković, owner of Delta Holding, a conglomerate that is the largest private-sector employer in Serbia, was arrested in connection with over 20 suspect privatization deals. Between August and November, some 20 people were arrested on suspicion of abuse of office, bribery in capital valuation, and receiving fraudulent loans from the state co-owned Agrobanka, which saw its license revoked in May after regulators discovered that the bank was €300 million in debt.[47] Former Deputy Prime Minister Jožef Kasa was among those detained in what Vučić predicted would be a lengthy investigation.[48]
Some members of the former ruling party DS were arrested or indicted in 2012. At the end of October, prosecutors indicted Oliver Dulić for abusing his former office as minister of environment and spatial planning by awarding the Slovenian company Nuba with a contract to install optical cables along Serbian roads without opening the opportunity to other bidders in 2009. In November, Saša Dragin, the former DS minister of agriculture, was also detained on abuse of office charges. The DS supports the fight against corruption while simultaneously accusing the ruling SNS of "political persecution" against its members.[49] Goran Knežević, who quarreled with his fellow DS party members when he was mayor of Zrenjanin, was charged with abuse of office and embezzlement of urban land in 2009. Knežević joined the SNS in 2010, and spent 13 months in detention before being acquitted in November 2012. Knežević's lawyers described the trial as a "political proceeding… in which he was found guilty in advance by President Boris Tadić and Minister Oliver Dulić."[50] There are others who view Knežević's release after the new government took power as evidence of SNS pressure on the judiciary. Shortly after his release, Knežević was appointed minister of agriculture, forestry, and water management.
The alleged Balkan drug lord Darko Šarić remained at large in 2012, though at least 12 of his purported associates have already been indicted. Šarić and Montenegrin businessman Rodoljub Radulović, allegedly a key member of the venture, will be tried in absentia in 2013 before the Belgrade Special Court for Organized Crime. Šarić's alleged drug operation functioned largely unhindered until 2009, when authorities intercepted a shipment of 1.8 tons of cocaine bound for Europe from Argentina. Media speculated throughout 2012 that the network of people involved in Šarić's money-laundering efforts may have included politicians from the past and current ruling coalitions.[51]
Serbia's Anticorruption Agency, established in 2010, is tasked with coordinating the work of state bodies in the fight against corruption, though in practice its accomplishments have been limited. In 2012, the agency began to implement the 2011 Law on the Financing of Political Activities.[52] In October, the EC criticized the agency for failing to exercise the full scope of its powers and cooperate with various stakeholders to investigate asset declarations effectively.[53] In November, agency director Zorana Marković was dismissed by the agency's supervisory board for "actions harmful to the agency's reputation."[54] Marković is accused of shielding politicians from investigation and trying to allocate a state-owned apartment in Belgrade for herself. Lawyer Tatjana Babić was appointed acting director.
An official Anticorruption Council was formed in December 2001 as an advisory body to the government. Council president Verica Barać, one of Serbia's most respected anticorruption activists, died of cancer in March 2012. During Barać's tenure, the council issued approximately 30 reports on the most important corruption cases in Serbia, though few of the criminal complaints filed by the council has ever been prosecuted.[55]
Nearly 50 percent of Serbians believe the level of corruption in the country increased in 2012, and almost 90 percent agree that corruption is a "common practice" in Serbia, according to a June poll by TNS Medium Gallup.[56] Respondents reported giving bribes most frequently to doctors, police officers, and civil servants, and perceived corruption to be most widespread in public procurement. At the end of 2012, the government passed a new law, in line with EU and International Monetary Fund standards, to criminalize public procurement violations.
In 2012, the EU demanded that Serbia investigate and prosecute two-dozen controversial privatizations—a request it has made of every government for the last decade. An official 2012–16 anticorruption strategy was still pending at year's end.
[1] Government of the Republic of Serbia European Integration Office, "High level of support for the reforms necessary for EU accession," news release, 2 February 2013, http://www.seio.gov.rs/news.101.html?newsid=1393.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Boris Cerni and Misha Savic, "IMF Starts New Loan Talks with Serbia as Inflation Rises," Bloomberg, 13 November 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-13/imf-starts-new-loan-talks-with-serbia-as-inflation-rises.html.
[4] "Državni revizor: Podaci o visini javnog duga do kraja oktobra" [State auditor: Information on amount of public debt by the end of October], Blic, 18 September 2012, http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Ekonomija/343426/Drzavni-revizor-Podaci-o-visini-javnog-duga-do-kraja-oktobra.
[5] "Mere donete da izbegnemo bankrot" ["Measures made to avoid bankruptcy"], B92, 16 September 2012, http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2012&mm=09&dd=16&nav_category=9&nav_id=643650.
[6] "EU Offers Serbia Candidacy for Membership," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), 2 March 2012, http://www.rferl.org/content/european_union_serbia_membership/24502015.html.
[7] Iva Martinović, "Srbija i pregovori sa EU: Kakav je značaj nemačih uslova" [Serbia and the EU: What is the importance of the German conditions], Radio Slobodna Evropa (Serbian RFE/RL service), 14 September 2012, http://www.slobodnaevropa.org/content/srbija-i-pregovori-sa-eu-nemacki-uslovi/24708782.html.
[8] Edona Peci and Bojana Barlovac, "Kosovo, Serbia Put Border Deal in Action," Balkan Insight, 10 December 2012, http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-serbia-put-border-deal-in-action.
[9] "Listinzi otkrivaju sumnjiva lica" [Listings reveal suspicious people], Večernje Novosti, 5 November 2012, http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.290.html:404701-Listinzi-otkrivaju-sva-sumnjiva-lica.
[10] Ibid.
[11] "Vučić: U novoj vladi neće biti zaštićenihhttp," Politika.rs, 23 July 2012, http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Politika/Vucic-U-novoj-vladi-nece-biti-zasticenih.lt.html.
[12] "Dačić: SPS-PUPS-JS istinski pobednik izbora" [Dačić: SPS-PUPS-JS is the real winner of the elections], RTV, 27 May 2012, http://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/politika/dacic:-sps-pups-js-istinski-pobednik-izbora_321928.html.
[13] "Serbian Socialist Gets Mandate to Form Government," RFE/RL, 28 June 2012, http://www.rferl.org/content/serbian-socialist-gets-mandate-form-government-dacic/24628866.html.
[14] Bojana Barlovac, "Social Networks Mobilise Army of 'White' Voters," Balkan Insight, 18 May 2012, http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/social-networks-mobilise-army-of-white-voters.
[15] In the absence of a specific, suspected culprit, the charges of voter fraud were filed against N.N. (nomen nescio).
[16] "Reakcije na pobedu Nikolića," [Reactions to Nikolić's victory], RTS, 21 May 2012, http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/1950/Izbori+2012/1106242/Reakcije+na+pobedu+Nikoli%C4%87a.html.
[17] Transparency Serbia, Opšti osvrt na finansijske izveštaje stranaka sa majskih izbora 2012 [Monitoring of campaign financing, Review on financial reports of political parties in 2012 elections] (Belgrade: Transparency Serbia, 2012), http://www.mc.rs/upload/documents/saopstenja_izvestaji/2012/071012-TS_Osvrt_na_finansijske_izvestaje_stranaka.pdf.
[18] European Commission (EC), Serbia 2012 Progress Report accompanying the document Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council, Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2012–2013 (Brussels: EC, October 2012), http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/key_documents/2012/package/sr_rapport_2012_en.pdf.
[19] "EU: Čestitamo na izborima" [EU: Congratulations on the elections], B92, 7 May 2012, http://www.b92.net/info/izbori2012/vesti.php?yyyy=2012&mm=05&dd=07&nav_id=607075.
[20] Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe/Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions (Belgrade: OSCE/ODIHR, OSCE PA, and PACE, 7 May 2012), http://www.osce.org/odihr/90335.
[21] Civic Initiatives, Procena stanja u sektoru organizacija civilnog društva 2011 [Assessment of the Situation in the Civil Society Organizations Sector in Serbia] (Belgrade: Civil Initiatives, September 2011), https://docs.google.com/a/gradjanske.org/file/d/0B3GsycnrBBm-RGZjNk5kVHFRaktuWnA3MjI2emxOZw/edit?pli=1.
[22] Support to Civil Society, "Održana završna konferencija projekta 'Podrška civilnom društvu'" [The final conference of the project "Support to Civil Society"], news release, 3 October 2012, http://www.civilnodrustvo.rs/sr/projects.php?page=news#91.
[23] "Prajd: 4 zida i minut na stiroporu" [Pride: 4 walls and a minute on styrofoam], B92, 6 October 2012, http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2012&mm=10&dd=06&nav_category=12&nav_id=649136.
[24] Ibid.
[25] "Serbian patriarch calls for ban of gay parade, exhibit," B92, 3 October, 2012, http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society.php?yyyy=2012&mm=10&dd=03&nav_id=82467.
[26] Bojana Barlovac, "Serbian Church Accuses Govt of 'Suicide' on Kosovo," Balkan Insight, n.d., http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbian-orthodox-church-criticizes-state-on-kosovo-policy.
[27] Interview with Vukašin Obradović, president of the Independent Journalism Association of Serbia (NUNS), 28 July 2012.
[28] Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI), Mediji u kampanji [Media in election campaign] (Belgrade: BIRODI, 2012), http://www.mediamonitor.rs/images/Mediji-u-izborima-WEB.pdf.
[29] "Germany's WAZ in surprise sale of stake in Serbian daily," B92, 17 July 2012, http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=07&dd=17&nav_id=81319.
[30] Ekonomist prestao da izlazi, zaposleni u štrajku" [Economist ceased to be published, employees on strike], Blic, 1 June 2012, http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/326334/Ekonomist-prestao-da-izlazi-zaposleni-u-strajku.
[31] "Ugašen tabloid SAN," Blic, 2 January 2013, http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/360771/Ugasen-tabloid-SAN.
[32] Bojana Barlovac, "Pink 2 Replaces Serbia's Troubled TV Avala," Balkan Insight, 6 November 2012, http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/pink-2-replaces-serbia-s-troubled-tv-avala.
[33] European Commission (EC), Serbia 2012 Progress Report accompanying the document Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council, Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2012-2013 (Brussels: EC, October 2012),
[34] D. Čarnić, "Osnovana međunarodna komisija za ubistva novinara" [International commission for murders of journalists is founded], Politika, 22 September 2012, http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Hronika/Osnovana-medjunarodna-komisija-za-ubistva-novinara.lt.html.
[35] Media Center Belgrade, "Media Institutions and Activities" in Media News Bulletin (biweekly), May 2012, http://www.mc.rs/media-institutions-and-activities.3169.html.
[36] "Dačić: Promena na lokalu gde je izvodljivo" [Dačić: Changes on local level where it is possible], RTS, 27 August 2012, http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/9/Politika/1163454/Da%C4%8Di%C4%87%3A+Promena+na+lokalu+gde+je+izvodljivo.html.
[37] "Vučić: Vlast u Beogradu ostaje ista" [Vučić: Belgrade city government stays the same], B92, 28 August 2012, http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2012&mm=08&dd=26&nav_category=11&nav_id=637731.
[38] The Constitutional Court of Serbia (USS), Decision No. Уз-353/2009, July 2012, http://www.ustavni.sud.rs/Storage/Global/Documents/Misc/Odluka%20APV.pdf.
[39] "Reagovanja na odluku Ustavnog suda" [Reactions to the Constitutional Court's decision], RTS, 11 July 2012, http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/9/Politika/1137700/Reagovanje+na+odluku+Ustavnog+suda.html.
[40] "Selaković: Loša reforma doprinela korupciji" [Selaković: Bad reform contributed to corruption], Kurir, 27 September 2012, http://www.kurir-info.rs/selakovic-losa-reforma-doprinela-korupciji-clanak-431128.
[41] "Neće biti nove reforme pravosuđa" [There will be no new judicial reform], B92, 18 September, http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2012&mm=09&dd=18&nav_category=11&nav_id=644120.
[42] Republic of Serbia Court of Cassation, "Анализа рада судова опште и посебне надлежности за 2011. годину" [Analysis of special and general jurisdiction courts for the year 2011], 3, http://www.vk.sud.rs/assets/files/aktuelno/analiza_rada_sudova_za_2011_sa_zakljuccima.pdf.
[43] Interview with Dragana Boljević, president of the Judges' Association of Serbia, 17 February 2012.
[44] European Commission (EC), Serbia 2012 Progress Report accompanying the document Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council, Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges 2012-2013 (Brussels: EC, October 2012),
[45] EC, Serbia 2012 Progress Report.
[46] "Life Mission," Cord Magazine, 27 September 2012, http://www.cordmagazine.com/component/content/article/570/570.html.
[47] "New Arrests in Serbian Corruption Scandal," SETimes, 24 October 2012, http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2012/10/25/feature-01.
[48] "Serbia Arrests Ex-Deputy PM in Agrobanka Affair," Balkan Insight, 20 November 2012, http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbia-continues-arrests-in-agrobanka-affair.
[49] "DS: Žale se na hajku" [DS: They complain on chase], Večernje Novosti, 12 October 2012, http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.289.html:400945-DS-Zale-se-na-hajku.
[50] Vuk Cvijić, "Advokati: Kneževića su unapred krivim proglasili Boris Tadić i Oliver Dulić" [Lawyers: Boris Tadić and Oliver Dulić found Knežević guilty in advance], Blic, 17 October 2012, http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Hronika/348293/Advokati-Knezevica-su-unapred-krivim-proglasili-Boris-Tadic-i-Oliver-Dulic.
[51] "Political Ties of Alleged Serbian Drug Lord Come under Spotlight," RFE/RL, 16 January 2013, http://www.rferl.org/content/saric-serbia-drug-lord-political-protection/24825516.html.
[52] EC, Serbia 2012 Progress Report.
[53] Ibid.
[54] "Serbian Anti-Corruption Agency Looks for a New Leader," SETimes, 15 November 2012, http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2012/11/15/feature-01
[55] The reports are indexed on the Anticorruption Council's official website: http://www.antikorupcija-savet.gov.rs/izvestaji/cid1028/index/.
[56] TNS Medium Gallup, Ispitivanje javnog mnjenja o korupciji, Peti talas [Survey of public opinion on corruption, the fifth wave] (Belgrade: UNDP Serbia, June 2012), http://www.scribd.com/doc/153872811/Istrazivanje-javnog-mnenja-o-korupciji.

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hi everyone
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been keeping fresh/saltwater /brackish fish for a looong time now , many years,,but decided too get back in the hobby ,after a few years off,,
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Hi and welcome to the forum!!! =D
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Hello and welcome to the forum. We hope you like it here.
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Welcome to TFK! What set ups do you currently have? Do you have any pics you can share? We love pics!
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hello and welcome.
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sponge or two behind some decor,that way you have
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Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create e.g. bookmark on https://www.google.com/ in Bookmarks Toolbar without name to see only favicon
2. Export bookmarks to HTML file
3. Import this file
Actual Results:
Some odd symbols in name
Expected Results:
Properly blank name
Could you please provide some screenshots?
I am also facing some trouble with the Import dialog and due to this
I am very interested in seeing this, since I cannot reproduce the
behavior on winXP with SP3.
juan, what do you think?
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Created attachment 473434 [details]
Also with importing 4MB bookmarks.html
I get this error many times:
"A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/omni.jar!/components/nsPlacesDBFlush.js:190"
Marking as WORKSFORME, because it not happens with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100911 Firefox/4.0b6pre
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Reopening because I exported bookmarks on XP and imported it to 7 and get this...
could I please get a copy of your bookmarks.html file by mail (don't attach it here since it contains sensitive data)
Also, are all of your boxes confiured with the same language? which one is it?
Is this a regression from Firefox 3.6?
(In reply to comment #8)
> Is this a regression from Firefox 3.6?
Don't know for sure, but probably yes.
(In reply to comment #7)
> could I please get a copy of your bookmarks.html file by mail (don't attach it
> here since it contains sensitive data)
> Also, are all of your boxes confiured with the same language? which one is it?
Sent (private bookmarks (less than 1%) was removed), exported with newest nightly of Firefox 4 64bit
Also I cant reproduce it anymore, only sometimes I get this funny symbols... and I don't know when this bookmarks are wrongly named, but probably on importing, not exporting
(In reply to comment #7)
> Also, are all of your boxes configured with the same language? which one is it?
Windows XP SP3 32bit Polish with Firefox 4 32bit
Windows 7 64bit Polish with Firefox 4 64bit
but this firstly occurred on exporting and importing on the same system like you can see on the first screenshots from XP
So, you noticed the problem in the 64 bit version on Windows? It's even possible there is some bug there, since we don't officially support 64bit Windows version yet. Btw, the fact this is Polish (thus localized) system is probably related.
I'll try to reproduce with your file, if this doesn't always happen could be hard to reproduce though.
Awww, I didn't mention that I use Firefox in EN-US language without any language packs
So, I tried importing in current nightly on Win7 x64, so far I don't see any problem, some bookmarks have japanese names, but that's expected. Maybe there's something wrong at system level with unicode fonts. It's pretty much hard to tell :(
Just in case, I tried to import multiple times with the win64 version, still no luck in reproducing.
I also tried many times and can't reproduce it anymore...
odd, I simply must stop auto-updating Fx & add-ons and backuping bookmarks next time when I see this to diagnose it completely ;p
so marking this RESOLVED WORKSFORME for now
OK, bug still exist on importing bookmarks with blank name from file bookmarks.html.
Tested on Portable Firefox 3.6.15 and latest Firefox4b13pre 64bit nightly on Win 7 64bit.
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I see that this odd symbols in importing are caused by probably wrong exporting and writing some wired symbols instead of nothing

Wasz spob na studia

should be

Wasz spob na studia

This wouldn't block release, if it gets confirmed we could consider it as a .x issue.
the bookmarks.html file has the same symbols, so importing seems correct.
The problem seems to be in exporting then?
Unfortunately this bug is still missing steps to reproduce the issue starting from a new clean profile, if you could find a certain page that once bookmarked and exported causes a broken bookmarks.html file, that would be useful.
Yep looks like exporting is the problem. But I can hardly reproduce it. Once when I see that a bug occur I tried second time and it didn't happen anymore.
I will try with clean profile and new created bookmarks to give you guys detailed info.
*** Bug 645724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
confirming for investigation of what could cause broken codepage symbols in the html file.
I first experienced this problem with Firefox 4.0 (after upgrading from 3.6) on Win 7 64-bit. It occurs in the file generated by autoExportHTML. It happens nearly every time. The problem does not occur for me when I manually export my bookmarks to html.
I'd be happy to email files from my profile to one of the developers, if it might help.
which locale is your OS and your Firefox?
Sure, I'd be interested in getting your places.sqlite by mail to try to reproduce if filesize allows sending it.
Sorry, I misspoke - I have *32* bit Win 7 Professional. I believe all the locale stuff is US English. (I don't remember where to check to confirm that.) I will email a zip of my places.sqlite.
What's the status in diagnosing this bug guys ?
Branching is in a week for Firefox 6.
(In reply to comment #28)
> Branching is in a week for Firefox 6.
And then there will be 7 in 6 weeks, 8 in 6 weeks... we have a lot of work to do and not enough resources for every single bug. You're welcome to investigate the bug and make a patch if you wish, but as you said it's hard to reproduce, and that doesn't help.
Btw, looks like I never received the places.sqlite file :(
Awww, I think you got already Rod Spades' places.sqlite file on your email to investigate it.
So Rod Spade could you resend this file to Marco Bonardo ?
Also sorry for bugspam, but I want only remind some critical (like this) or easy fix (about bookmark button) bugs.
> So Rod Spade could you resend this file to Marco Bonardo ?
got it, was wrongly marked as spam :(
*** Bug 657099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
OK, I got it! I introduced this bug in importexport code in bug 420729. Looking at it, it's probably a typo on my side since I didn't mean to change this behavior (most likely I moved a brace and then moved it back to the wrong position).
Thank you very much for the places.sqlite file, I was unable to reproduce the bug with it, but as soon as I added an empty titled bookmark it became reproduceable.
I'll try to make a test, but due to the nature of the bug (using uninitialized memory) it may work only randomly.
Thanks guys for all the work you do.
I'm not a programmer, just a user. I enjoy Fx every day - all the more so when I'm forced to use another browser - whose name I won't mention - for sites that work only with it ..
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patch v1.0
To briefly explain what happens here:
- we are accessing uninitialized memory due to a missing '\0' when name is empty
- to test this I had to refactor the test
- the more complete test catched a bug causing dateAdded and lastModified to be ignored when importing to a folder, so I had to fix this as well, to have the test pass.
but I've been able to enable all the commented out subtests, so more testing!
Comment on attachment 537987 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v1.0
r=me. this looks fine. thanks for taking the time to fix those tests!
At first glance looks fixed.
Thank you!
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110609 Firefox/7.0a1
Shouldn't this be pushed to next stable (Firefox 5) ?
(In reply to comment #40)
> At first glance looks fixed.
> Thank you!
No, thanks always go to people who helped reporting and reproducing the bug, for patience and for trying to bring this on in a constructive way. Fixing it is the easy part often.
> Shouldn't this be pushed to next stable (Firefox 5) ?
Well, Firefox 5 is pretty hard (I'd say impossible) to do since it's already in beta stage.
Firefox 6 may be possible, but I'd not put a bet on that. Even if I don't like the bug at all (using uninitialized memory is always bad) it's something that happens in edge cases, when you have empty-named bookmarks. But don't be too much worried, releases happen every 6 weeks, so you won't have to wait like for previous major releases and Firefox 6 will soon be a beta.
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Many prokaryotes contain the recently discovered defense system against mobile genetic elements. This defense system contains a unique type of repetitive DNA stretches, termed Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs). CRISPRs consist of identical repeated DNA sequences (repeats), interspaced by highly variable sequences referred to as spacers. The spacers originate from either phages or plasmids and comprise the prokaryotes' 'immunological memory'. CRISPR-associated (cas) genes encode conserved proteins that together with CRISPRs make-up the CRISPR/Cas system, responsible for defending the prokaryotic cell against invaders. CRISPR-mediated resistance has been proposed to involve three stages: (i) CRISPR-Adaptation, the invader DNA is encountered by the CRISPR/Cas machinery and an invader-derived short DNA fragment is incorporated in the CRISPR array. (ii) CRISPR-Expression, the CRISPR array is transcribed and the transcript is processed by Cas proteins. (iii) CRISPR-Interference, the invaders' nucleic acid is recognized by complementarity to the crRNA and neutralized. An application of the CRISPR/Cas system is the immunization of industry-relevant prokaryotes (or eukaryotes) against mobile-genetic invasion. In addition, the high variability of the CRISPR spacer content can be exploited for phylogenetic and evolutionary studies. Despite impressive progress during the last couple of years, the elucidation of several fundamental details will be a major challenge in future research.
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Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 105.9 mg35.3%
Sodium 343.3 mg14.3%
Total Carbohydrates 578 g192.8%
Dietary Fiber 4.4 g17.8%
Sugars 464.2 g
Protein 1 g2.7%
Vitamin A 2% Vitamin C 29.9%
Calcium 1.1% Iron 2.9%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
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- Simulate LED in LTSpice
- 08-08-2007
- Dr Mitch
August 8, 2007, 2:01 pm
- Helmut Sennewald
August 8, 2007, 3:55 pm
Re: Simulate LED in LTSpice
You don't tell SPICE when a diode is on or off, you only specify model
Example.for a model specification of a LED with 20mA, 1.7V.
.model LED1 D(Is=1e-19 N=1.6 Rs=2.5 Eg=2.1)
Replace the value D of your diode in the schematic with LED1 and
place the model specifications on your schematic as a SPICE-directive.
I recommend to read some text about the basics of SPICE.
Best regards,
- Helmut Sennewald
August 8, 2007, 6:30 pm
Re: Simulate LED in LTSpice
Hello again,
Maybe I haven't correctly understood all questions when I answered first.
Just probe the current flowing through the LED in LTspice to see
whether it's "on" or "off". If a few milli-Amperes will be shown,
the LED will light in a real circuit.
Best regards,
August 8, 2007, 4:29 pm
Re: Simulate LED in LTSpice
Most likely you have miswired your actual circuit (LED wrong way
around perhaps)
Also, LEDs are very long lasting when operated within their allowable
parameters, but if you miswire and subject the LED to excessive
current or reverse voltage, you can destroy it in much less than a
second. If you did that previously, it will most likely look like an
open (infintitely high resistance) to the rest of the circuit now.
- D from BC
August 8, 2007, 6:44 pm
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