Serbia’s striking students are finding time to play, read or just hang out together during long protest blockades they organize to put pressure on the populist authorities.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?  –Brecht The Socialist Federal

Hundreds of striking Serbian students have resumed their 2-day anti-graft protest march from the capital, Belgrade to the northern city of Novi Sad

They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off. Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer, or 50 mile, march toward the northern city of Novi Sad.

Tens of thousands of people blockaded three bridges on the Danube River in Serbia's second city of Novi Sad on Saturday in the latest anti-government protest over a railway station disaster that killed 15 people in November.

By Tatyana Kekic in Novi Sad Serbia is in the throes of a political crisis, sparked by a deadly infrastructure collapse in Novi Sad late last year, with ongoing student-led protests putting immense pressure on the government.

The growing movement began following the collapse of a concrete canopy at the central train station in Novi Sad, killing 15 people.

Novi Sad, Serbia - 01, 2025 The Duga Bridge over the Danube is overflowing with people on foot, waving banners, sounding vuvuzelas and shouts of “He's ruined!” in reference to Serbian President Alexandr Vucic.