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The paper is published and managed by an entity called Daily Press d.o.o. - a limited liability company based in Podgorica. The company's ownership is currently split between Montenegrin partners (59%), Austrian Styria Medien AG (25%), and American fund MDLF started by George Soros (16%).
The paper was started on September 1, 1997 as only the second daily newspaper in Montenegro at that point with the long running state-owned Pobjeda being their only competition. Listed as the paper's owners were four individuals Miodrag Perovic, Ljubiša Mitrovic, Slavoljub Šcekic, and Željko Ivanovic.
At the precise time of the paper's launch, the political situation in Montenegro was fairly tense as former longtime DPS (ruling political party) allies Milo Ðukanovic and Momir Bulatovic were in the middle of a campaign for the 1997 presidential elections. Montenegro, at the time a part of FR Yugoslavia (federal country that also consisted of Serbia) was choosing between a pro-Miloševic leader in Bulatovic, and Ðukanovic who at that time started to cautiously distance himself from his former mentor Miloševic although he still favoured the idea of a unified country with Serbia. Vijesti openly supported Ðukanovic[1] who eventually won the highly controversial elections and thus became the president of Montenegro.
