Female students are marking International Women’s Day in Serbia by leading the daily street protests against corruption, and thousands later joined a separate student-led rally against the populist go

Female students Saturday marked International Women's Day in Serbia by leading the daily street protests against corruption and sending a message decrying widespread violence against women in the Balkan country.

Tens of thousands of people marched through Belgrade on Friday to mark the deaths of 15 victims in a railway station disaster and to support a student-led call for a general strike aimed at challenging Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's hold on power.

Thousands of protestors walked 300 kilometers on March 1 from Belgrade to the southern city of Nis to rally support for an anti-corruption protest that took aim at the ruling party. Serbia's Russia-friendly President Aleksandar Vucic has often used a Kremlin playbook to discredit the protests that occasionally rise in a country balancing between Russia and the West.

The Kremlin supports Serbia's authorities as they face growing anti-government protests, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday following a phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Student-le

Since December, students from 65 of the country’s 80 faculties have been on strike. Schools are also on strike, and at major demonstrations, farmers have blocked main roads with dozens of tractors.

Fireworks and flares lit up the evening sky as Serbia’s protesting students arrived Friday in a southern city on the eve of a huge rally this weekend, part of a massive anti-graft movement challenging the Balkan country’s populist government.

A new protest action called “General Strike” is taking place across Serbia on 7 March, following a call from students who have been blocking university faculties and demanding accountability for the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad.

Belgrade, Serbia—Serbian opposition lawmakers lit flares and discharged suspected tear gas during the opening day of the spring session of parliament on

While much of Europe is wrestling with far-right politics, Serbia is seeing a student-led movement against corruption and its strongman president.