Jovana Krstic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
The case of Andrey Hnyot, a Belarusian journalist, filmmaker, and opposition activist, who is facing extradition from Serbia has highlighted how authoritarian governments can misuse Interpol's "red notices" to pursue dissidents on politicized charges outside their own borders.
Serbian environmental organizations rallied in the capital, Belgrade, against the government's plan to allow lithium mining. Tens of thousands joined the protests on August 10. A part of the protesters blocked the rail traffic overnight. The police dispersed the blockades early on August 11.
New agreements signed during Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Belgrade have experts and activists worried about shrinking press freedoms and Beijing’s growing extrajudicial reach.
Over 100 people gathered in Belgrade on February 5 to protest Serbia's Court of Appeals decision to acquit four former security officials in the killing of Slavko Curuvija, a journalist who was killed in April 1999. Demonstrators held mirrors in a call for the court to critically examine itself.
After a two-week break, new protests were held in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on January 16 over disputed national and municipal elections. Several thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the offices of the national election commission, demanding the annulment of the December vote.
Hundreds of students blocked one of the busiest crossroads in the heart of Belgrade on December 25 in front of government buildings. The protesters accuse the ruling Serbian Progressive Party of electoral theft and are demanding to see the voting register.
On December 17, Serbs vote in snap parliamentary, provincial, and municipal elections. Polls suggest most of the races will be won by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and its allies. A key exception could be the capital, where the opposition is in a tight race.
After Russia withdrew from a grain-export deal with Ukraine in July, Croatia began to look at ways it could help get the harvest to international markets. Experts suggest the grain could travel from Ukraine along the Danube River to the Croatian city of Vukovar.
Tens of thousands joined a May 27 anti-government march in Serbia's capital, Belgrade. It was the fourth in a series of protests held in the wake of two deadly gun attacks in early May. The protesters decried the scarce coverage of the protests by the public-service broadcaster, the RTS.
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.
