Lela Vujanić is a researcher, educator, and author from the former Yugoslavia, with a focus on public interest media, cultural politics, and social movements.
Ratko Mladić was a war criminal who died in detention last week in The Hague. But ahead of Serbia’s elections, President Aleksandar Vučić’s party shied away from criticizing the ethnonationalist general’s legacy.
The recent death of a student at the University of Belgrade triggered a police raid and fresh government attacks on education. Professors appear as the vanguard of a broad social movement, but their plans for change are less clear.
A deadly station roof-canopy collapse in Novi Sad, Serbia, last fall sparked months of protests. Blockades and rallies have mobilized masses of people — but the difficulty forcing institutional change has made some activists look to the electoral arena.