Serbia

• October 09, 2025

  Serbia Braces For Fallout After US Sanctions On Oil Firm NIS Take Force

  The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said sanctions against the Russian-owned Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS), Serbia's sole crude oil refiner, have taken force after several delays, a move that could hit the Balkan nation hard.

• October 05, 2025

  First She Fought Milosevic, Now This Serbian Writer Joins Anti-Vucic Protests

  Twenty-five years ago, she was a young Serbian student protesting against Slobodan Milosevic. Now, Anja Mijovic is back on the streets as mass demonstrations rock the nation again.

• October 05, 2025

  Activist Who Stood Up Against Milosevic Joins Serbia's New Protest Movement

  Twenty-five years ago, pro-democracy protests in what was then Yugoslavia forced authoritarian leader Slobodan Milosevic to resign on October 5, 2000. Anja Mijovic, who was part of that movement, has now joined a new student-led wave of protests fighting government corruption and authoritarianism.

• October 01, 2025

  Serbia Questions 11 Suspects Over Pig Heads And Other Hate Acts In France

  Authorities in Serbia have said they are questioning 11 people suspected of involvement in a series of hate acts against Muslim and Jewish sites in France, which included placing pigs’ heads outside mosques and daubing synagogues in green paint.

• September 23, 2025

  The Sakharov Prize: Who's In The Running For The EU's Top Human Rights Award?

  The EU’s top human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, will be decided this fall. With nominees ranging from jailed Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut to Palestinian aid workers, political jockeying in the European Parliament is already underway.

• September 20, 2025

  Serbia Stages Massive Military Parade Amid Opposition Criticism

  Tanks, jeeps, and soldiers paraded through the Serbian capital under bright sunshine on September 20, in a massive military spectacle that some opposition figures criticized as a politicization of the armed forces.

• September 16, 2025

  2 Men Wanted For Attempting To Smuggle Arms To China, Harassing Dissident Flee House Arrest In Serbia

  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.

• September 09, 2025

  Fresh Demonstrations In Serbia As Protesters Accuse Police Of Excessive Force

  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.

• September 06, 2025

  Police In Novi Sad Use Force To Respond To Student Protesters

  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.

• September 06, 2025

  Protesters Demanding Reforms Clash With Police In Novi Sad

  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.

• September 01, 2025

  Back To School In Serbia? Universities Seek To Break Student Boycott

  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.

• August 28, 2025

  'It Changed My Life': 10 Years On, Europe's Refugee Crisis Casts A Long Shadow

  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.

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