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SANADER'S MEDIA PLAN The former Prime Minister planned to unify the significant marketing budgets of state owned companies under the umbrella of Fimi-media so that he could direct money towards obedient media houses and destroy those who would not toe the line

PSEUDO-STATE APPARATUS AT WORK

Sanader created a media-control apparatus through Fimi-media

The Croatian judiciary has received confirmation from seven persons of the claims made by Damir Mihanovic, a member of the board at insurance company Croatia… More

  • Mladen Barišić

    A LOVE & BUSINESS soap opera

    Love in the midst of the HDZ swindle

    Just how close the head of customs and, until recently, HDZ chief treasurer Mladen Barisic was to Nevenka Jurak, a woman who put together deals with… More

  • SDP PRESIDENT Zoran Milanovic with Slavko Linic, who is mentioned in the intelligence report

    CORRUPTION scandal takes a new twist

    SDP also embroiled in the Hypo affair

    "The decision of SDP head Zoran Milanovic to call for the resignation of the Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic, is one that is truly difficult to… More

  • THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT feels that his role is also a political one, not just ceremonial, and that is why he will take an active role in the concrete creation of national policy; he will be assisted in this by young aides, and he wishes to strengthen the role of his future Chief of Staff

    POLITICAL report

    A young team on the road to Pantovcak

    The election of Ivo Josipovic to the post of President could lead to significant changes in Croatia's political makeup. During the election campaign… More

  • SANCTIONS LOOM UEFA confirmed for Nacional in two e-mails that it wishes to speak with Miroslav Blazevic. What is more, UEFA is threatening to sanction Blazevic if he continues to avoid meeting with them

    SCANDAL at the top of Croatian football

    Blazevic and Mamic under UEFA suspicion

    Nacional has discovered from well-informed legal sources in Croatia that UEFA representatives presented the Croatian police with extensive… More

  • CRACKED THE SURFACE OF THE OCTOPUS During his eight months at the post of Police General Director Vladimir Faber launched investigations into numerous corruption scandals, not knowing that some reached right to top national officials; here photographed with Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko

    EPILOGUE of the Sanader-Faber showdown

    Cast out for clearing the police of Sanaderites

    Former Police General Director Vladimir Faber was the first to, during his short stint at the post, start investigations into the corruption octopus… More

  • TOUGH RUSSIAN NEGOTIATOR Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with President Dmitri Medvedev – the Russian leadership is making Croatia's hook-up to their Southern Stream natural gas pipeline conditional on abandoning the idea of an LNG terminal, while Croatia needs both sources of supply

    CROATIA between a rock and a hard place

    Russia's natural gas coercion of Croatia

    If Croatia wants to secure its connection to the major Russian Southern Stream natural gas pipeline and sign a new long-term contract on the… More

  • SANADER AND ZUBOVIC The former Prime Minister and his trusted friend in the party, the person through whom most of the shady dealings related to state-owned companies went

    EXCLUSIVE

    The hunt for the head of the octopus

    While the great majority of the Croatian public believe that chucking former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader out of the Croatian Democratic Union broke… More

  • A NEW JUSTICE Ivo Josipovic feels that finding a way out of the economic crisis and winning the war on corruption and crime are necessary to bring optimism back to Croatia

    The new President's first interview

    'I want to bring optimism to Croatia'

    Ivo Josipovic is the new President of Croatia. On Sunday 10 January he won a convincing victory over Milan Bandic and took the majority of the vote… More

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Number 749

br. 749 - 09.02.2010.

Other stories

PSEUDO-STATE APPARATUS AT WORK

Sanader created a media-control apparatus through Fimi-media

04.02.2010.

A LOVE & BUSINESS soap opera

Love in the midst of the HDZ swindle

03.02.2010.

CORRUPTION scandal takes a new twist

SDP also embroiled in the Hypo affair

03.02.2010.

POLITICAL report

A young team on the road to Pantovcak

27.01.2010.

SCANDAL at the top of Croatian football

Blazevic and Mamic under UEFA suspicion

22.01.2010.

EPILOGUE of the Sanader-Faber showdown

Cast out for clearing the police of Sanaderites

22.01.2010.

CROATIA between a rock and a hard place

Russia's natural gas coercion of Croatia

22.01.2010.

EXCLUSIVE

The hunt for the head of the octopus

14.01.2010.

The new President's first interview

'I want to bring optimism to Croatia'

14.01.2010.

A DARK economic forecast

2010 – a year of crisis and the turning of the tide

07.01.2010.

Backroom games in the presidential race

The dark secrets and intrigues of the first round of the elections

31.12.2009.

POLITICAL REPORT

HDZ to decide Bandic's fate

30.12.2009.

TAKEOVER in Koprivnica

HSS victory in the battle for Podravka

30.12.2009.

SONDERKOMMANDO versus Ivo Sanader

Sanader's 13 interventions in Hypo under investigation

24.12.2009.

THREE models to save the economy

Rohatinski knows how to bail out companies

24.12.2009.

CONTROVERSY Surrounding INA and MOL continues

The fate of INA's oil fields in Syria remains unclear

23.12.2009.

POLITICAL report

Sanader's war against the Prime Minister

18.12.2009.