The Blic interview came couple of days after Knežević gave a similarly explosive interview to Montenegrin daily Vijesti in which he effectively accused Đukanović and his associate Stanko Subotić of ordering the October 2008 murder of Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanić.
The paper was started on October 10, 2011, as the fourth Montenegrin daily newspaper (besides Pobjeda, Vijesti and Dan).
In March 2007 he was frequently quoted in Montenegrin press (namely Vijesti daily) saying that he wants to play for Montenegro, but he made himself unavailable for their inaugural match on 24 March 2007 due to, as he said, "objective circumstances".
This practice inspired other publishers from the Region to follow the example of Vijesti.
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Following the referendum in May 2006 and Montenegrin independence, Vijesti became the most vicious critic of Đukanović and his administration.
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With a group of colleagues, Ivanović founded the first independent daily newspaper Vijesti, which started coming out on 1 September 1997.
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Đukanović then begun a long term campaign of pressures and attacks on Vijesti, in order to diminish their influence and change the editorial policy.
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Under his management in October 2003, daily Vijesti started the publishing action that counted over 3 million printed books of various content-from encyclopedias to belletristic and art books.
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Cetinje: Dignitas, 1994 (first edition); KPZ, Podgorica, 1998 and 2000 (second and third editions); Plima, Ulcinj, 2001 and 2003 (fourth and fifth editions, the fifth with other selected works);Vijesti, Podgorica, 2006 (sixth edition).
Since the beginning, Vijesti went through various phases of the relationship with the authorities in Podgorica.