Academics say state universities across the country are coming under increasing pressure from the authorities, who see them as a hotbeds of organised political dissent that could challenge the Serbian Progressive Party’s long rule at the next elections.
Katarina Baletic
Carrying a banner with a message of defiance taken from the lyrics of legendary Serbian singer Djordje Balasevic, students, professors and their supporters rallied on Saturday at King Milan Square in the southern city of Nis.
Before voicing their demands, they stood in silence to commemorate the victims of the 2024 Novi Sad railway station disaster, which sparked an ongoing wave of student-led protests against alleged corruption and authoritarian governance.
Nis is the latest flashpoint in the ongoing discontent. It erupted after the authorities decided to merge three departments of Nis University’s Faculty of Philosophy into a newly established faculty with a symbolically ‘patriotic’ name – the Faculty of Serbian Studies.
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