“WE ONLY ACCEPT RESIGNATIONS”: Students Respond to RTS’s “First Measure of Apology”! (VIDEO)

Students in Blockadeannounced that they do not accept an apology, but only resignations, after a statement by the new editorial board of RTS’s News Program was read during the Dnevnik 2 news broadcast, in which it was stated that this was the “first measure of apology.”

During this evening’s Dnevnik 2 broadcast on the public broadcaster, a report was read about the dismissal of editors at RTS, after which the presenter read a statement by the television station’s new editorial board of the News Program, stating that this was the “first measure of apology.”

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On the social media account of the students in blockade, they said that they do not accept the apology.

“We do not accept an apology. We only accept resignations,” reads the post on the social network X.

We do not accept an apology. We only accept resignations. @RTS_Vesti

— Studenti_u_blokadi (@studentblokade) October 29, 2026

Earlier today, representatives of the Student List held their first press conference following the elections held on Sunday, during which they said that citizens have the right to truthful information and demanded, in addition to the resignations of Manja Grčić and the editor-in-chief of the News Program, Bojana Mlađenović, which have been fulfilled, the resignation of Deputy Director General Dejan Jovanović.

She pointed out the irregularities and, on behalf of the students and the Student List, proposed a temporary management structure for RTS agreed upon with the representative trade unions.

After that, by decision of acting editor-in-chief of the News Program Borivoje Uskoković, the following editorial staff members were dismissed from their positions: Vesna Šiljegović from the Correspondents’ Office, Nikolina Rakić from the Region desk, Gorislav Papić from “Oko,” Zoran Stanojević from the Website, and Suzana Gvozdenović from the Diaspora desk. The editors of the main Dnevnik news broadcast at 7:30 p.m. were also dismissed: Milica Nedić, Dušan Ubović, and Ruža Jeremić Turudić.