"For the past 72 hours, students have been blockading Serbia’s state-owned public broadcaster (RTS). This morning, they greeted the arrival of the Serbian police by singing the Imperial March"
via tw/@filipejdus

tourdestrasbourg.com ✊

Why is the EU ignoring Serbia's student protests? The policy posture from Brussels remains on autopilot, effectively siding with Serbia's authoritarian president Aleksandar Vučić against the student-led protesters, while continuing 'happy talk' about the enlargement process.

"Vučić has made his regime a trailblazer for modern European rightwing revanchism, the primary driver of regional instability, a hub for Russian and Chinese influence and disruption, and a magnetic pole for modern far-right ethnonationalism and genocidal ideation."

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

How a train station tragedy threatens to bring down a hardline European president | CNN On the first day of November, Aleksandar Matkovic was running late for a train. He was traveling from Novi Sad, in the north of Serbia, to its capital Belgrade, where he works as an economic historian...

fairly comprehensive layout of current protests in serbia

edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/e...

a moment of silence to honor the victims of tragedy in novi sad

these months of student-led protests across serbia have been truly cathartic. shame and resentment of the recent past, anger and apathy, precarity, helplessness, as if all of it transformed and fuelled a new hope

novi sad, january 31, 2025. video by serbian green–left front

tonight's gathering point is in front of the train station in novi sad, the site of the tragedy. the station is in the background

tomorrow marks three months since corruption and the arrogance of power claimed 15 lives in the northern city of novi sad. tonight, students from across serbia are gathering there. citizens have lined the streets to welcome them, and local students prepared beds for them to rest.

From Tragedy to Resistance: The Rising Wave of Student Protests in Serbia Serbia is an abducted state, with a degree of totalitarian power hard to imagine for those who have not experienced it firsthand concentrate...

on recent events in serbia and some background context

* the author is boban arsenijević, a serbian linguist and professor at university of graz, austria neodinamika.blogspot.com/2025/01/from...

you can contact the students directly, they are the crux of it all

notably on x: @sviublokade_fdu and @studentblokade

having full and accurate information about a country is crucial for a local OSCE mission

serbia does not have a presidential system; in fact, the role of the president is largely ceremonial. while the incumbent has indeed grabbed all power, we shouldn't legitimize such overreach

razvoj događaja, 1. novembar 2024 - 20. januar 2025.
visual: lazar čovs/bbc news na srpskom

Serbia's prime minister resigns as anti-corruption protests grow A canopy collapse, which killed 15 people in the city of Novi Sad, has become a flashpoint reflecting wider discontent with the increasingly autocratic rule of populist President Aleksandar Vucic.

too little, too late. it's high times for criminal responsibility apnews.com/article/serb...

Tested whether DeepSeek avoids referring to "Tiananmen Square", as per Reddit, and it does!

a 24-hour sit-in in belgrade began at 10 am today blocking one of the key traffic routes in the city

* the footage was posted on x by a reporter on site

belgrade by night

📷 aleksandar babić

Beograd, 27.01.2025

It is remarkable that for all the edgelord shit they still talk in these euphemisms. It’s so incredibly cowardly. Also Italy was famously unified in the 19th century after being conquered and reconquered, italian is the opposite of a timeless ethnic identity bsky.app/profile/thes...

Srećno svima koji slave.

a massive 24-hour sit-in about to begin in belgrade
traffic cameras stills:

trump's "special envoy for special missions" gave his two gaslighting cents yesterday on protests in serbia. the irony is rich

* nb: every documented instance of violence has been perpetrated by police/secret services or pro-government thugs whose prosecution is now one of the students' demands

Michelle Gurevich - Goodbye My Dictator YouTube video by Michelle Gurevich

Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
'Cause everybody's sick and tired
We'll all be dancing when you die
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQOR...

Da vas podsjetim i pozovem na vožnju Umetnobilom. Kroz svijet korupcije, partijskih poslušnika, ljudskih prava, Jugoslavije, vozi vas Den Kupekovski uz društvo @danlikov.bsky.social. Prihod od prodaje karata za vožnju, odnosno knjiga, kao i slobodne donacije idu studentima u blokadama.

more surreal scenes from belgrade this morning instead of the usual rush hour congestion
general strike

belgrade this morning (via tw): a truly rare sight on a rainy friday morning when streets are usually packed
it's the general strike ✊

amid massive protests for justice and accountability in serbia, brussels chose to disregard systemic human rights violations, rampant corruption, and the partisan capture of state institutions by the autocratic regime.

that's it. that's the future history textbook footnote.

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

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(maznula sa tw)

on december 1, 2024, the president of serbia justified drivers ramming into protesters. people compiled footage of some of the incidents since