Mila Manojlovic is a social-media producer for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Archaeologists in Belgrade have unearthed new segments of an aqueduct -- part of a 2,000-year-old water supply system built by the Romans. The find in the city, known in ancient times as Singidunum, was made while digging out land for an underground parking garage.
Serbia's armed forces have proposed a return to conscription after more than a decade as an all-volunteer army, with the president vowing to "look into modernizing" the laws on military service. The announcement has met with resistance, with critics accusing the government of politicking.
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.
Dozens of people marched in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, to call for peace in Israel. Jewish communities in Serbia and an association promoting Jewish heritage jointly organized the event on October 15.
Tens of thousands joined an anti-government march in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on June 17. It was the seventh in a series of mass protests held after two unrelated gun attacks in early May. The protesters blocked a highway leading through the city.
Serb Mladen Perovic merely opened his doors to ethnic Serbs and Albanians alike when violence broke out this week in Zvecan and other cities. Now he's asking why that makes him a "traitor" in the eyes of Serbian ultranationalists.
Why would angry Serbs in northern Kosovo adopt a symbol of naked Russian aggression as they clashed with Kosovar police and NATO troops?
A Chinese genetic-research company is under investigation across the European Union and was blacklisted by the United States for its suspected links to the Chinese military. But Belgrade is deepening its partnership with the controversial entity through new agreements and a production center.
A report from the NGO Safeguard Defenders about Chinese "police stations" abroad has created ripples around the globe and sparked investigations across Europe. But in Hungary and Serbia, two countries with warm relationships with Beijing, authorities appear keen to "sweep it under the rug."
A Chinese contract to build a sewage plant in the Serbian city of Kragujevac as part of a multibillion-dollar venture has been issued without a tender or public procurement, raising questions about transparency and corruption.
Kosovo risks becoming a reluctant laboratory for invasive Chinese surveillance technology at the hands of neighboring Serbia, an "iron-clad" friend to Beijing.
President Aleksandar Vucic caps two weeks of military exercises with surprising talk of making Serbia's army "twice as strong as today."
Even if the novel coronavirus hasn't reached Serbia, a global pandemic is no joke. But that hasn't dissuaded senior officials in Belgrade from floating the odd conspiracy theory or making light of COVID-19 as one more reason to have a shot.
Trying to come back from a sexual assault scandal that caused a prestigious Nobel from not being awarded, the Swedish Academy has a new problem with its new choice for the award.
