Nevena Bogdanovic is a correspondent based in Belgrade for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Former President Aleksandar Vucic, who dominated Serbian politics for the past 14 years, conceded defeat in the country's parliamentary elections after polls closed on October 25. Preliminary results showed the movement called Students' List taking a decisive lead.
After 14 years dominating Serbian politics, Aleksandar Vucic faces the biggest challenge to his rule in parliamentary elections on October 25 from an opposition movement that has sprung from mass student protests. But there’s growing concern about whether voting will be fair.
Several villages in western Serbia, known for their agricultural production, have found themselves on the route of a highway to Montenegro, which is being built by the Chinese company CCCC. But expropriation process has triggered a string of lawsuits.
Serbian human rights groups say Bangladeshi workers at the Chinese-owned Linglong tire factory faced withheld passports, unpaid wages, and poor living conditions, prompting a new probe by Serbian prosecutors.
An investment company founded by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, has withdrawn from a planned $500 million hotel construction project in Belgrade amid a swirling controversy over the site, which was destroyed during the NATO bombing in 1999.
Massive crowds of protesters in Belgrade observed 15 minutes of silence to honor the 15 people who died after a railway station roof collapsed in Novi Sad in November. The demonstration was the largest in a wave of student-led protests demanding the government be held accountable for the tragedy.
Residents of Novi Sad cheered as hundreds of students completed a nearly 80-kilometer walk from Belgrade. It was the culmination of months of protests after the deadly collapse of the roof of a train station in Novi Sad, followed by a campaign of arrests and attacks targeting the protesters.
Hundreds of people, mainly students, set off from Belgrade on a two-day walk to Novi Sad in the latest of a wave of protests in Serbia. The protests started in November after the deadly collapse of a railway station roof, a tragedy that protesters blame on government negligence and corruption.
Landfills on the outskirts of cities, whether illegal or poorly managed, are a widespread phenomenon in Serbia. Local residents and experts say they contaminate water supplies and cause fires, and they want them shut down.
Thousands of people joined the Pride parade in Belgrade on September 7, demanding legislation on same-sex unions and gender identity. Some mentioned persisting prejudice and stereotypes in Serbian society. The police cordoned off a group of demonstrators opposing the LGBT event.
A Serbian government decision to resume preparations for a massive lithium mine has ignited fresh anger two years after the foreign-backed project was put on hold.
As expressions of concern and outrage pile up over the possible fate of Belarusian journalist and regime critic Andrey Hnyot, the 42-year-old exile remains in legal limbo in an extradition battle, he says, “to save my life.”
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.
By appointing two members who are under U.S. sanctions to the new Serbian government, Belgrade has only nurtured its relationship with Moscow, a senior associate with the Berlin-based Council for Democratization Policy told RFE/RL on April 30.
A Kazakh refugee in Serbia who has waited nine years for official residence status has finally been given a new kind of document: a "refugee passport." Baha Sarsenov, who fled political persecution in Kazakhstan in 2015, will finally be able to travel again.
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.
Some 30 years after the Balkan wars, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina still grapple with the legacy of wartime leaders. Both countries are home to public memorials honoring leaders convicted of war crimes, but it's the activists who protest against those displays who face repercussions.
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.
The annual LGBT Pride parade was held in the Serbian capital for the 11th time on September 9. Organizers said it was the most attended so far. Police cordoned off protesters waving Serbian Orthodox symbols.
Russian anti-war activist Vladimir Volokhonsky fled to Serbia after he faced arrest at home, but now fears deportation back to Russia. Opponents of Moscow's war on Ukraine say Serbia is increasingly working in concert with the Kremlin to target them.
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