Serbians march in 4 cities against government pressure and hate speech

Protests Leave Serbia’s Politics Finely Balanced

For months, hundreds of thousands of citizens have been protesting against corruption and authoritarianism in Serbia, a strategic Balkan country to which a series of nefarious rulers seem to have tried to lose the train of European history in the 21st century. The collapse of a marquee in the railway station of Novi Sad, in the north of the country, which on November 1st last year killed 15 people, has generated an unprecedented recent social mo…

Serbians march in 4 cities against government pressure and hate speech

Thousands of people have marched in four Serbian cities against government pressure and hate speech targeting university students and professors behind months of anti-corruption protests shaking populist President Aleksandar Vucic.

The current uprising in Serbia, carried by the students, serves as a school of democracy. For four and a half months now, universities in Serbia have been the epicentre of an unprecedented student uprising: the endemic corruption and authoritarianism of the regime of Aleksandar Vučić. In schools occupied by students, classrooms are no longer dedicated to teaching, but to sleeping, organizing actions and deliberations on the future of the movemen…

Protests in Serbia: no turning back now

On 15 March, the largest anti-government demonstration in the country’s history took place in Belgrade. President Vučić wants early elections – but in today’s Serbia these can not be free elections. For some, the only acceptable solution is a transitional caretaker government.

For months, various forms of violence and pressure by opposition activists and blockaders have been taking place in Serbia, threatening to escalate into complete anarchy.