Fireworks as thousands greet Serbian students who cycled to France seeking EU support for protests

Serbian students take aim at state TV in battle against propaganda

For Serbian civil society, it is the authorities’ widespread corruption that is seen as the trigger behind the tragedy at the heart of the mobilisations.

Fireworks as thousands greet Serbian students who cycled to France seeking EU support for protests

NOVI SAD, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of people greeted on Tuesday a group of Serbian university students who had cycled more than 1,300 kilometers (780 miles) this month to draw European Union attention to their struggle against corruption in the…

Performative Imagining of Something New

The Serbian flag is ours again! Students have cleansed it from the awkward performative tears at the UN General Assembly, and similar political follies. We are obviously collectively unlearning from the war and healing from nationalism. It stands in solidarity with the flags of various Serbian universities and faculties. Absent, however, are the flags of the European Union (as well as those of Russia, or China), which comes as no surprise, consi…

There has been a change in the timetable, the cyclists' welcome will be at 9:15 pm on Radomir Putnik Square. On Thursday, April 24, citizens and students will meet the cyclists, who traveled more than a thousand kilometers to send a message all the way to Strasbourg. See you in as many numbers as possible - because they rode for all of us, say the students. The post The cyclists' welcome time has changed appeared first on Glas Šumadije.

Thousands of people in Novi Sad welcomed a group of Serbian university students with fireworks on Tuesday night as they returned from a more than 1,300-kilometer bike ride from Serbia to Strasbourg to draw attention to their fight against corruption in the country, the AP reported. The group of about 80 university students in Novi Sad - the capital of the autonomous region of Vojvodina - was welcomed with fireworks, drumming and whistling. The p…

Protesting Serbian students return after cycling across Europe