While Pride’s reception in Belgrade has improved since the first event there 25 years ago, efforts to raise awareness about LGBTQ+ issues elsewhere in Serbia have been marred by threats, abuse and police inaction.

Serbia has unveiled legal amendments to ‘protect’ schools from ‘misuse’, but critics say they are all about exerting control over an education system that has played a prominent role in anti-government protests.

After a week of fires blazing in the famous nature reserve known as ‘Europe’s Sahara’ amid searing temperatures in Serbia, authorities say they've finally got the situation under control.

A Serbian national allegedly linked to Serbian intelligence – arrested recently while on holiday in Croatia – is accused of hacking into several major state institutions and agencies.

Experts fear the newly-announced payments for all adult citizens in Serbia, announced by Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, are part of a political campaign rather than a social measure.

With the Danube River at a historical low in some parts of Serbia, fuel imports arriving by river are at risk and energy production is being reduced.

Financial pressures are now the greatest threat to the survival of small, independent media in Serbia, journalists say.

Serbian women’s right organisations welcome Montenegrin law amendments introducing paid menstrual leave – and call for similar advance in their own country.