In November 2024, mass protests began in Novi Sad after the city's railway station canopy collapsed, killing 16 people and leaving one severely injured. By March 2025, student-led protests calling for
Protesters at Slavija Square in Belgrade on 22 December 2024
Campuses in Belgrade blocked by students, left to right: School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Philosophy, and Faculty of Fine Arts.
RTS employees publicly express their support for students, during the protest on 17 January.
A march during the general strike in Belgrade on 24 January 2025. The banner in the foreground reads "Само Студент Србина Спашава" (Only a Student[s] Saves the Serbs), a play on the national slogan "Only Unity Saves the Serbs".
Aleksandar Vučić is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party, he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023,
2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
…Press suggested that the collapse also served as a flashpoint for expressions of dissatisfaction with the Serbian government as a whole. President Aleksandar Vučić, Minister of Construction Goran Vesić and pro-government news outlets initially claimed the canopy was never reconstructed, despite videos and images…
Vučić and Tomislav Nikolić on the founding congress of the Serbian Progressive Party, Belgrade, 2008
Vučić and U.S. secretary of defense Leon Panetta in Washington, D.C. in 2012
Prime minister Aleksandar Vučić with Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi