Student protests

27.March 2025. Tijana Stanic

Rebellion in Serbia: Land subsidence or calm before the storm?

Twelve days have passed since the largest protest in the history of Serbia, and the most common question is: what next? The government and the citizens are on opposite sides, repression is getting stronger, the opposition is looking for a solution, and the students are thinking of their next move. Everything suggests that this is just the calm before the storm

Faculty blockade

24.March 2025. TS

The student rebellion continues: Is the academic year lost?

Four months after the beginning of the blockades, the students' demands are still not met, and an imminent return to the faculties is not in the offing. At the same time, the regime tries to divide students into those who want to and those who don't want to study, and the pressure on professors is also starting. Will students persevere at the cost of a missed academic year?

Protests in Serbia

24.March 2025. KS

For the General Staff: New big student protest in Belgrade

The students in the blockade called for another large protest, this one in front of the destroyed General Staff building in Belgrade, on March 24, the day when the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began 26 years ago.

Student protests

15.March 2025. KS

Protest schedule and map

Students in the blockade published a map and plan of the protest. Gathering at several points in the city and walking together towards the Parliament of Serbia

Preparations for March 15th

12.March 2025. Ma. J.

Pionirski Park is filling up: Who is calling for conflicts?

First, the students, "students who want to learn", came to the camp. And then Pionirski Park began to fill up with various suspicious groups, right next to the plateau in front of the National Assembly, where the central gathering of students in the blockade should take place on March 15. It seems as if Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić wants to provoke a conflict that he will be able to observe from the balcony on Andrićev venc

Fight in the Serbian Parliament

06.March 2025. TS

How do students view the moves of the opposition?

The students interviewed by "Vreme" are not enthusiastic about the opposition's methods of struggle. While some see the moves of the opposition as a necessary resistance, others perceive them as a political performance with no essential benefit

Big student protest in Belgrade

03.March 2025. Ma. J.

"Vreme" learns: March 15 is the gathering at the Assembly

After Autokomanda, Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Niš - the students called for a protest in Belgrade on March 15, which is considered crucial for the continuation of the struggle. Where it will be held and how it will proceed

Student protest in Niš

02.March 2025. Ma. J.

From the pump truck to the love of the north and the south: What marked Nis

At the largest ever protest in the history of the city of Nis, everyone pumped in their own way - from children with mini-vuvuzelas, to students who were thinking of their colleagues from Novi Pazar who are celebrating Ramadan. The protest also brought the "Student Edict", a message from students about their main values

Serbian Orthodox Church

27.February 2025. Ma. J.

"Students are Serbian Ustasha": Who is Bishop David, the parent of this thought

Metropolitan David of Kruševac once again spoke out about the students, calling them "thugs, manitos and people from Veresia", but also "Serbian Ustashas". This term is lexically and historically impossible, because the Ustasha authorities are responsible for murders and persecutions of Serbs in concentration camps like Jasenovac.

First visit to Serbia

26.February 2025. Ma. J.

Who hates Pizzula more?

The rapporteur of the European Parliament for Serbia, Tonino Picula, was on his first visit to Serbia since taking office and wrote a sharp report. The authorities competed to tear him apart as much as possible, but they met with him anyway