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Freedom House states that dirty campaigns and abuse of state institutions are being used to settle accounts with independent media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabi\u0107 said that the Freedom House report is relevant to her, but that she disagrees with its findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely don&#8217;t think and don&#8217;t feel like I live in a partially free country, rather I think that I live in a country that&#8217;s freer than it was a few years ago,\u201d said PM Brnabi\u0107.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 15, 2019 Serbia has lost its status as a free country and now finds itself among partially free countries, due to the ever-worsening conditions under which elections are being conducted, but also as a result of attacks on independent journalists, according to the latest report of U.S.-based organisation Freedom House, entitled \u201cFreedom in the World 2019\u201d. 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