The 1000th issue of the weekly of the Croatian minority in Serbia “Hrvatska riječ” was published
ZAGREB, June 18, 2022 – On Friday in Subotica, the publication of the 1,000th issue of the weekly of the Croatian community in Serbia “Hrvatska riječ” was solemnly celebrated.
Addressing the ceremony, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zlata Vasiljević said that many events, achievements and problems of Croats in Serbia would not have been covered by the media if it were not for the newspaper “Hrvatska riječ”.
This 52-page weekly is published every Friday.
“These 1000 issues of the newspaper bear witness to the political, social and economic changes in the country we live in, and they also bear witness to the political relations between Serbia and Croatia. What is even more important, these first 1000 issues covered everything that happened in the Croatian community in Serbia.” , said Vasiljević.
The president of the Croatian National Council in Serbia (HNV) Jasna Vojnić said that the leadership of that national minority is proud of the newspaper and praised the journalists in the newspaper for being respectable, professional, honest and incorruptible.
She recalled numerous obstacles and problems and pointed out that in some areas in Serbia there is still a fear of buying and reading the Croatian word in public.
The president of the DSHV party, Tomislav Žigmanov, said that the paper has grown into “the biggest mine of information about the Croatian community in Serbia.”
Dubravka Severniski from the Croatian Central Office for Croats outside Croatia praised “Hrvatska riječ” as a quality newspaper that helps ethnic Croats in Serbia to preserve their language and identity.
The publication of this weekly is financed from the budget of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.