Demokracija
{{Short description|Slovenian weekly news and political magazine}}
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Demokracija is a Slovenian right-wing weekly news and political magazine published in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is known as the party magazine of the Slovenian Democratic Party. It has been in circulation since 1990.
History and profile
Demokracija was founded in January 1990{{cite web|author1=Everete E. Dennis|author2=Jon Vanden Heuvel|title=Emerging Voices: East European Media in Transition. A Gannett Foundation Report|date=October 1990|url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED326913.pdf|work=Ganet Foundation|access-date=28 November 2014|format=Report|page=76}} as a dissident and pro-Spring magazine.{{cite book|editor1=David H. Weaver|editor2=Lars Willnat|title=The Global Journalist in the 21st Century|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ETE5vVTeLQkC&pg=PA284
|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-88576-8|page=284|location=New York; London|chapter=Journalism in Slovenia|author1=Peter Lah
|author2=Suzana Žilič Fišer}} The magazine is published weekly on Thursdays.{{cite web|title=Slovenia|work=World Press|access-date=26 November 2014|url=http://www.worldpress.org/newspapers/europe/slovenia.cfm}}{{cite web|title=Demokracija|url=http://download.cnet.com/Demokracija/3000-2164_4-75555556.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141126095856/http://download.cnet.com/Demokracija/3000-2164_4-75555556.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 November 2014|work=Cnet|access-date=26 November 2014}} Its headquarters is in Ljubljana.
Demokracija has a right-wing and conservative stance.{{cite book|editor=Lavinia Stan|title=Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAqUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA220|year=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-97099-4|page=220|location=London|chapter=Slovenia|author=Tamara Kotar}}{{cite book|editor1=Ljiljana Saric|title=Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim.Cultural Identities in Public Discourse|page=125|display-editors=et. al.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vFeeIodS-AC&pg=PA125|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-84769-486-7
|location=Bristol; Buffalo, NY; Toronto|chapter=Krekism and the Construction of Slovenian National Identity: Newspaper Commentaries on Slovenia’s European Union Integration|author=Andreja Vezovnik|date=15 November 2010 }} In its early days the weekly was considered to be close to the Slovenian Democratic Union. Then it is considered to have links with the Slovenian Democratic Party.{{Cite web|author=Saška Cvetkovska Delić|date=28 February 2020|title=Oiling Orbán's Propaganda Machine|url=https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/oiling-orbans-propaganda-machine|url-status=live|archive-date=29 February 2020|access-date=19 October 2020|work=OCCRP|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229194126/https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/oiling-orbans-propaganda-machine}}
The magazine focuses on political news in Slovenia and in the world, but also covers sections about history, culture, film, sports and entertainment.
In July 2017, Ripost, a Hungarian media company, acquired a majority share in Demokracija
In June 2024 Russia blocked Demokracija as part of a wider blockade of European media. In response Demokracija stated, that Russia has a problem with their reporting about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite web |title=Rusija blokirala več evropskih medijev, tudi slovenska Nova24TV in Demokracija |url=https://siol.net/novice/slovenija/rusija-blokirala-vec-evropskih-medijev-tudi-slovenska-nova24tv-in-demokracija-637590 |website=Siol |access-date=2024-06-25}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.demokracija.si/}}
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Category:1990 establishments in Slovenia
Category:Conservatism in Slovenia
Category:Conservative magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1990
Category:Mass media in Ljubljana
Category:News magazines published in Europe
Category:Political magazines published in Slovenia
Category:Slovene-language magazines