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The protests under the guidance of students represent the most severe threat to Serbian strong Aleksandar Vucic for 14 years in power, with over 100,000 out of Belgrade and cities across Serbia, urging systemic corruption throughout the Government.
On March 15, he saw what many believe that the biggest crowds were in recent history of Serbia, and about 300,000 people marched in the center of Belgrade.
Serbian President Vucic, who It remains near RussiaHe remained defiant, neglecting calls to deviate and accuse the protest movement of planning violent attacks and erasing the civil war.
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The protests under the guidance of students represent the most severe threat to Serbian strong Aleksandar Vucic for 14 years in power, with over 100,000 out of Belgrade and cities across Serbia, urging systemic corruption throughout the Government. (Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)
“Moscow and Belgrade have promised to fight the colors of 2021 together. This is dangerous because Russia can provide Serbia with intelligence support,” said Ivana Stradner, a scientific associate at the Democracy Defense Foundation, told Fox News Digital.
“Vucic hopes that protests in Serbia will stop, but they are growing more and more,” Stradner added.
Vucic accused the students of orchestrating the “revolution of a colored” and comparing the EuroMaid revolution for 2014 in Ukraine, when the dedicated president of Ukraine was overthrown for seeking closer relationships with Vladimir Putin over Europe.
Non -governmental organizations and organizations of civil society accuse the Government of using illegal weapons, including long -term acoustic devices (LRAD), a usual device to control the crowd that can cause serious hearing damage, during a commemorative silence for victims New sad collapse of railway railway in November.
“The Belgrade Center for Security Policy strongly condemns the illegal and inhumane arrangement of prohibited weapons, such as acoustic devices, against peaceful protesters during the public gathering of hundreds of thousands of citizens who pay tribute to the victims of the demolished roof in Novi Sad,” the group said.
Tens of thousands of students marched since December, demanding justice and responsibility after the death of 15 people in the downfall of the train station in the Serbian city of Novi tuma. (Igor Pavvicevic/Reuters)
The Serbian Foreign Minister, Marko Djuric, denied allegations in the post on X.
“Serbia categorically denies unfounded accusations that any illegal weapon, including so -called” sound cannons “, was used against demonstrants in Belgrade,” Djuric said.
President Vucic also denied claims, calling her a “awful lie” in addressing the nation and promised to explore the issue.
Protests consuming Serbia did not happen overnight and have been held for months.
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Tens of thousands of students marched since December, demanding justice and responsibility after the death of 15 people in the downfall of the train station in the Serbian city of Novi tuma. The canopy at the train station collapsed on November 1 after a renovation run by two Chinese companies.
What originally started as spontaneous protests that expressed dissatisfaction Government’s failed answer The railway disaster turned into a movement that opposed the broad corruption and erosion of the rule of the law under Vucic.
What originally began as spontaneous protests that expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s failed response to the railway disaster into a movement opposed to the broad corruption and erosion of the rule of the law under Vucic. (Mitar Mitrovic/Reuters)
“It is also important to recognize that the cause of the protest lasts deeper – many people consider the state as corrupt and are widely dissatisfied with the Vucic government. They call for greater freedom and responsibility for the press,” said Helena Ivanov, a senior associate at the Fox News Digital Institute.
Ivanov said that the Government attempts to alleviate the situation, such as the arrest of individuals involved in corrupt contracts from several years ago or the resignation of the Prime Minister in January, considered too little, too late by protesters and politicians of the opposition.
Many experts and observers of the Balkans were disappointed with the regional policy of the Biden administration, claiming that the administration had extinguished the Vucic regime and refused to call its anti -democratic practices. Efforts to move Vucic -Ai maintaining close connections with Belgrade were considered an integral Serbia-Kosovo normalization The process and their path to the ascent of the European Union.
Serbian President Vucic, who remains close to Russia, remained defiant, neglecting the calls of deviation and accusing the protest movement of planning violent attacks and drawing a civil war. (Milos Miskov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Former high diplomat with professional knowledge of Balkan told Fox News Digital that Vucic mistakenly portrays protesters as inspired and led by the “globalist elite”, hoping to attract the attention and support of President Trump.
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If President Trump wants a fast, cheap victory for him and now in the Balkans, Diplomat said Trump should transfer US regional posture from an attractive Vucic to him. Such posture in Serbia will show that he is not joking in the Balkans now and wants a peaceful conflict solution, while using the doctrine of “peace with power”.
