Two men accused of attempting to smuggle US military technology to China and harassing a dissident Chinese-American artist have escaped house arrest in Serbia, sparking an international search.
Students and others marched in Belgrade on September 8, demanding accountability for what they say was police brutality against protesters in Novi Sad three days earlier. Both demonstrations were part of a long-running movement that began in 2024 after a fatal building collapse in Novi Sad.
Police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse students protesting at Novi Sad University, the latest in Serbia’s 10-month movement demanding reform, early elections, and accountability for corruption.
Hundreds of police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters around the University of Novi Sad campus on September 5. The protest was part of a 10-month movement to demand reforms in the wake of a fatal railway station roof collapse in 2024.
As students continue months of large-scale protests following the collapse of a railway station roof in Novi Sad last November that killed 16 people, universities are trying to get them back in the classroom.
A translator remembers babies kept in pizza boxes at a refugee camp in Serbia. Ten years after Europe’s refugee influx, RFE/RL caught up with three people it interviewed at the height of the crisis in 2015 to see how it had changed their lives.
After nine months of anti-government protests in Serbia, led by students, there is a surge in violence. Why now?
A wave of protests that began in Serbia in November 2024 has entered a new phase, with daily clashes between demonstrators and police since August 12, when violence broke out in the northern cities of Vrbas and Backa Palanka.
The Serbian government is facing renewed scrutiny after RFE/RL reviewed documents revealing a significant expansion of its controversial surveillance program in collaboration with Chinese tech giant Huawei despite public protests and legal challenges.
A Serbian military special operations brigade has completed joint training with a Chinese brigade in China despite strong objections from the European Union and the United States.
Serbia will conduct military training exercises with China this month, becoming the first-ever EU candidate to do so as the two countries take a new step toward deepening military cooperation.
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