<article><h2>Instead of an answer to the question about how much the South Stream had cost Serbia - insults</h2><h2>Dačić: I assigned protection to Brankica Stanković</h2><p>In a written reply to Insajder.net, Ivica Dacic, the president of the Socialist Party of Serbia and current foreign minister, said that he did not know what had happened at the conference because he was away, in Moscow, but recollected that he assigned police protection to Brankica Stankovic while he was the interior minister, on the basis of a security assessment.</p><p>"I gave Brankica protection on the basis of security assessments. That is not a subject for political arguments. I will talk to Bajatovic about that," he said.</p><p>This was not the first time Dusan Bajatovic behaved inappropriately when Insajder asked him questions about the spending of the citizens' money. Every time we asked about the operations of Srbijagas, about the company South Stream in which Serbia, through the company that he is heading, has a stake of 49 percent, or around EUR 30 million as a financial investment, Dusan Bajatovic used different ways to avoid giving a concrete answer.</p><h2>Solidarity among journalists?</h2><p>Journalists are obliged to solidarity by the Code of Journalists. However, the problem is that the majority of journalists mostly do not adhere to that provision of the Code. The editorial office of Insajder believe that journalists should react, either by asking a question or by walking out of an event, every time a representative of the institutions or of the authorities insults or attempts to discredit a colleague from any media for asking questions.</p><p>The behavior of journalists in such situations is something that is not mentioned in public at all. The truth is that journalists do not even contemplate standing up in defense of the dignity of the profession, regardless of which media is being discredited. The latest example, the insult of Dusan Bajatovic, because of which the crew of Insajder left the conference, has shown how the journalists practically contribute themselves to the undermining of the profession.</p><p>The journalists not only stayed at the conference even after this incident, but one of them asked his question while the Insajder crew was still leaving the room, completely disregarding the incident. A more serious problem at news conferences is that some journalists attempt to interrupt their colleagues when they ask unpleasant questions, or even mumble in protest when such questions are asked.</p></article>

<h2>Instead of an answer to the question about how much the South Stream had cost Serbia - insults<p>Insajder has been asking questions since 2013, about how much the South Stream had cost Serbia, with the public enterprise Srbijagas assigned by the state to manage its construction.</p><p>Insajder covered the subject of the sale of the Serbian Oil Industry (NIS) and the construction of the South Stream in the series Energy (Mis)understanding in 2013. All the evidence that was disclosed at that time has since been officially confirmed. We have been asking questions about the spending of the Serbian citizens' money through the Russian-Serbian company South Stream ever since. Over the past three weeks, we attempted on several occasions to get answers from the director of Srbijagas, Dusan Bajatovic, about the purpose of the payment of EUR 17.8 million into the account of the South Stream company in Serbia, from the mother company in Switzerland, almost two months after the project was officially terminated. His initial answers were in general terms, advising us that we should learn something about economics, and even claiming that he had no obligation to answer because the company was private, although it was founded with the money of the Serbian citizens.</p><p>Dusan Bajatovic used the presentation of the business results of Srbijagas to accuse Insajder of conducting, in his words, a campaign against gas as a fuel, claiming that the journalists did that for donations. Throughout the conference, Bajatović referred to Insajder production as the Outsider agency.</p><p>To recollect - the journalist and author of Insajder, Brankica Stankovic, was given police protection in 2009 upon a decision of the relevant institutions, because of threats to her safety. Ivica Dacic was the minister of police from 2008 to 2014. It is interesting that, at the time when Brankica Stankovic was given police protection, Dusan Bajatovic was the deputy chairman of the Committee for Security of the Serbian Parliament, and then the chairman of that Committee.</p></h2><h2>Dačić: I assigned protection to Brankica Stanković</h2><p>In a written reply to Insajder.net, Ivica Dacic, the president of the Socialist Party of Serbia and current foreign minister, said that he did not know what had happened at the conference because he was away, in Moscow, but recollected that he assigned police protection to Brankica Stankovic while he was the interior minister, on the basis of a security assessment.</p><p>"I gave Brankica protection on the basis of security assessments. That is not a subject for political arguments. I will talk to Bajatovic about that," he said.</p><p>This was not the first time Dusan Bajatovic behaved inappropriately when Insajder asked him questions about the spending of the citizens' money. Every time we asked about the operations of Srbijagas, about the company South Stream in which Serbia, through the company that he is heading, has a stake of 49 percent, or around EUR 30 million as a financial investment, Dusan Bajatovic used different ways to avoid giving a concrete answer.</p><h2>Solidarity among journalists?</h2><p>Journalists are obliged to solidarity by the Code of Journalists. However, the problem is that the majority of journalists mostly do not adhere to that provision of the Code. The editorial office of Insajder believe that journalists should react, either by asking a question or by walking out of an event, every time a representative of the institutions or of the authorities insults or attempts to discredit a colleague from any media for asking questions.</p><p>The behavior of journalists in such situations is something that is not mentioned in public at all. The truth is that journalists do not even contemplate standing up in defense of the dignity of the profession, regardless of which media is being discredited. The latest example, the insult of Dusan Bajatovic, because of which the crew of Insajder left the conference, has shown how the journalists practically contribute themselves to the undermining of the profession.</p><p>The journalists not only stayed at the conference even after this incident, but one of them asked his question while the Insajder crew was still leaving the room, completely disregarding the incident. A more serious problem at news conferences is that some journalists attempt to interrupt their colleagues when they ask unpleasant questions, or even mumble in protest when such questions are asked.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

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