Pravda (, which means "Justice") was a daily tabloid newspaper published in Belgrade, Serbia.
Pravda was published by Pravda Press, a limited liability company with Nemanja Stefanovià(48%), Jugoslav Petkovià(47%), and Nikola Petrovià(5%) listed as its owners. Nemanja StefanoviÃÂ's brother is Nebojà ¡a StefanoviÃÂ, a Serbian Radical Party (SRS) and later Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) official.
The first issue of Pravda appeared on 5 March 2007, about six weeks after the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, in which the most popular political party in Serbia at the time, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) led by Vojislav à  eà ¡elj who had been in the dock at the Hague since 2003, once again won the most seats (81 out of 250). Still, despite yet another impressive electoral showing, SRS had trouble forming a government due to facing a situation where no other party wanted to enter into a coalition with them. Within days of the premiere issue, journalist Predrag PopoviÃÂ, who previously edited Nacional, became editor-in-chief. Popoviàwould later reveal that he had been hired by Aleksandar VuÃÂiÃÂ, a high-ranking SRS official at the time.
Pravda adopted an anti-establishment editorial policy within the Serbian context and was critical of the Serbian ruling coalition formed around the policy of cohabitation between prime minister Vojislav Koà ¡tunica of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the president of the republic Boris Tadiàof the Democratic Party (DS). The paper generally espoused rightist political views and promoted the SRS political agenda. Pravda created minor controversy in Serbia when in November 2007 it started publishing irregular columns by Mira MarkoviÃÂ, the wife of late Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloà ¡eviàand herself a fugitive from the Serbian justice system.
The paper's 1 June 2012 issue was announced to be its last as the newspaper folded. It switched to an all-digital online format.
Pravda is frequently cited, including by Predrag Popovic, its onetime editor-in-chief, as having been a publication controlled by Aleksandar VuÃÂiàand tailored for his personal day-to-day political needs, When the daily got launched in March 2007, VuÃÂiàwas a high-ranking member of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), an opposition party whose leader Vojislav à  eà ¡elj had been detained in the Hague, awaiting trial, since February 2003.
In a November 2014 interview, upon being temporarily released from detention, Vojislav à  eà ¡elj mentioned that the roots of VuÃÂiÃÂ's row with Serb businessman Miroslav Mià ¡koviàand the tycoon's subsequent persecution and incarceration were in their past dealings over Pravda: <blockquote>"According to my information, VuÃÂiàasked Mià ¡koviàfor money for Pravda on several occasions, but got rejected each time. Mià ¡koviàreasoned that already paying Tomislav Nikoliàoff with large sums of money was more than enough so he figured why now also pay VuÃÂiÃÂ. VuÃÂiànever forgot that and as soon as he grabbed power in Serbia, he decided to exact revenge on Mià ¡koviÃÂ".</blockquote>