Speculation is mounting over who will run Serbia’s public broadcaster RTS after its director-general Manja Grcic acceded to Student List demands and resigned on Wednesday evening.

Following an attack on a gendarme guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, Serbia's caretaker Interior Minister Ivica Dacic raised the terror threat status to the highest level.

European officials and leaders from Balkan states congratulated the Student List on its election victory, expressing hopes for democratic changes that will accelerate Serbia’s progress towards EU membership.

Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic concedes defeat to Student List in major parliamentary elections on Sunday. The result brings an end to 14 years of rule by Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party.

People with disabilities and those who provide assistance tell BIRN of pressure - direct and indirect - to vote for Serbia’s ruling party amid fears they could lose a financial lifeline.

Ahead of Serbia’s high-stakes snap parliamentary elections on Sunday, citizens abroad are organising shared transport and accommodation to reach polling stations, sometimes thousands of kilometres away.

CRTA report warns of persistent 'electoral engineering' attempts by pro-government actors, including unequal media coverage, intimidation, hostility to independent election observers and offers of money for political support.

New rule obliging voters abroad to follow polling hours based on Central European Time means some diaspora Serbians in countries like the US and Australia will have to cast ballots in the middle of the night.

Under pressure from protesters, Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic vowed last year to root out corruption. Dozens of arrests followed, but more than 18 months later, barely a handful of people have actually ended up in court.

Ruling party mayor Aleksandar Sapic denies assaulting opposition councillor and breaking her nose and jaw in a street altercation - saying he only defended himself against the woman's husband.

After Serbia's president pardons 12 activists accused of plotting to subvert the state, one of them tells BIRN it only proves the whole case was 'fabricated from the beginning' for political purposes.

Much-anticipated election debate sees rare direct televised face-off between senior ruling party official and candidate from opposition Student List.

A medical professor from northern Serbia, Ilija Srdanovic suddenly finds himself at the head of a movement to end 14 years of rule by the Serbian Progressive Party and President Aleksandar Vucic. They have a month to win over the undecided.

Fears are growing for the editorial independence of the remaining media outlets that give space to dissenting voices in Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbia, after a change of ownership not long before elections.

As the European Parliament debates convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic's funeral in Belgrade, Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos says Serbia is failing to respect European values.

The funeral of Ratko Mladic was held in Belgrade with thousands of mourners including senior officials from Serbia and Bosnia’s Republika Srpska – defying EU warnings about glorifying the Bosnian Serb war criminal.

Hundreds joined the annual Belgrade Pride march, marking a quarter of a century since the first event was held in the Serbian capital in 2001, when it was disrupted by violence.

President Aleksandar Vucic’s trial podcast, featuring well-known basketball coach Miroslav Nikolic, follows an online self-promotion trend embraced by other politicians in the region and beyond.

A Serbian court has once again postponed the opening of the trial of 12 activists accused of plotting the overthrow of the authorities ahead of a mass protest in Belgrade in March 2025.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague was guilty of "uncivilised" and "unjustifiable" behaviour for not releasing the Bosnian Serb genocide convict before his death this week.