2024120 Years Since the Publication of the First Issue of the Daily Newspaper Politika - First Day Cover

When Vladislav Ribnikar, the founder and editor-in-chief of "Politika", filed a request with the authorities back in 1904 regarding the launch of a new daily newspaper, he stated that the newspaper would be political and independent. The colporteurs who shouted the name of the new daily newspaper on the streets of Bel-grade on January 25, 1904, printed on four pages, in a circulation of 2,450 copies, and sold for five para, started a history that would last 120 years. During all that time, "Politika" gained its readership mainly among educated citizens and chose its contribu-tors from among significant cultural and scientific creators, such as Nobel Prize laureate Ivo Andrić, Miloš Crnjanski, Branko Ćopić, Jovan Dučić, Branislav Nušić, Desanka Maksimović, Slobodan Jovanović, Isidora Sekulić, Tin Ujević, Momo Kapor, Vladimir Bulatović Vib, Mihajlo Petrović, Vasko Popa, etc. Author's texts for "Politika" were also written by Sir Winston Churchill and Thomas Mann.