BIRN on Thursday published “Serbia on the Streets”, a comprehensive collection of reports by Balkan Insight about Serbia’s mass protest movement from November 2024 to May 2025.
The e-book is free to download in PDF and EPUB formats. It opens with the first report published by Balkan Insight about the Novi Sad railway station disaster of November 1, 2024, which left 16 people dead – the initial spark for the protest movement.
In the aftermath of the disaster, people took to the streets all over Serbia, accusing the authorities of corruption and negligence.
The reports compiled in the e-book document how students took the lead in the movement with faculty occupations, street blockades, pickets, marches and rallies. Analysis pieces, interviews and on-the-spot reportage articles look deeper into the issues raised by the protests.
“Balkan Insight’s journalists have covered the protest movement since the beginning and have produced a wealth of in-depth reportage and analysis as it developed. The material compiled in this e-book represents an important document of a complex period,” Gentiana Murati, BIRN’s deputy regional director, said.
“It includes numerous voices from the streets and squares, but also valuable expert views on the crisis, which is still ongoing,” Murati added.
The e-book is available to download here.