Iva Martinovic is a video journalist for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
One year ago, Serbia was rocked by two separate mass shootings just a day apart, one at a Belgrade school, the other in villages in central Serbia. The killings triggered several months of protests but promised government action to tighten gun control is progressing slowly.
The Terekh family moved to Serbia from Russia in 2019, seeking a better life. They've found jobs, paid taxes, and say they never made trouble. But now Serbia is threatening to deport them. Officials refuse to explain why the family was labeled an "unacceptable security risk."
Journalists in northern Serbia are facing "unprecedented levels" of intimidation, including threats of physical violence. Dinko Gruhonjic found death threats graffitied outside his home. He is one of seven journalists in Serbia to be targeted in March.
Migrants trying to cross into Serbia from North Macedonia en route to the European Union told RFE/RL that Serbian police beat them with batons. The claims come after video footage was published of migrants who said they were forced to undress in near-freezing temperatures by Serbian police.
Activists and residents say Serbia's most visited mountain resort of Zlatibor is under threat from overdevelopment, with the local authorities seeking to attract 1 million visitors annually.
After signing an open letter critical of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yelena Koposova had her application for residency in Serbia rejected on "security" grounds. Now other anti-war Russians in Serbia fear they could be next.
Hooked to an IV drip, 49-year-old legislator and mother of two Marinika Tepic pledges to keep up her hunger strike in a fight against what she says were fraudulent elections -- but for a host of other reasons, too.
Kosovars and Montenegrins take issue after tennis ace Novak Djokovic and his Serbian national teammates take to the court for late-round Davis Cup matches to a tune that calls for the Serbian flag to fly over foreign lands.
Serbian police have displayed guns collected in a nationwide disarmament campaign. President Aleksandar Vucic came on May 14 to a depot in the city of Smederevo where the police showed some of the firearms, explosives, and ammunition seized or voluntarily turned in by people.
Serbian police have been rounding up people traveling toward the European Union and taking them to government-run camps around the country. A nongovernmental group said the EU was pressuring Belgrade to stop the flow of people, mostly from Afghanistan and Syria, heading for the EU.
Leading Serbian news outlet Danas is under police protection after receiving a threat that it would suffer the same fate as the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, where several journalists were murdered in an attack by Islamist extremists in 2015.
Twenty-four-year-old comic author Gleb Pushev left his hometown, St. Petersburg, after posting a caricature of the Russian president in bloody clothes with a knife in his hand on social media. Fearing arrest, in early March he went to Belgrade, where he continues to draw anti-war cartoons.
Anti-war activists are removing symbols of Russia's war on Ukraine that have appeared on city streets throughout Serbia since the early days of the invasion. The works include murals of Vladimir Putin and Russian paramilitary groups accused of war crimes.
The Chinese tech giant Huawei has been linked to large, shadowy offshore payments sent to Serbian lobbyists close to the country’s state telecommunications company -- giving a rare insight into how the company wins influence in the Balkan nation.
In August 1991, as Yugoslavia disintegrated, national army troops and paramilitary forces laid siege to the city of Vukovar in northeastern Croatia. One resident, Pavo Zivkovic, has spent decades trying to find his son Goran, who he believes was among the victims of a massacre near the city.
Serbia's president was eagerly courting Minsk's embattled authoritarian leader as recently as last month. But he and other Balkan leaders have been noticeably quiet since Belarusians erupted in postelection protest.
Cyrillic has a place in Serbia's constitution, and students there learn it first. But Latin script is making inroads.
Distraught parents fear that officials told them their newborns were dead so they could be trafficked in the 1970s.
Young Serbs took to the streets in raucous -- and remarkably persistent -- protests following this month's presidential vote.
An RFE/RL correspondent recently rode on a Belgrade bus packed with Afghans and other refugees heading to the EU. What she saw on the trip shocked her.
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