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Milica Jovanović
@placesoft.bsky.social
ghost writer, human editor
"For the past 72 hours, students have been blockading Serbia’s state-owned public broadcaster (RTS). This morning, they greeted the arrival of the Serbian police by singing the Imperial March"
via tw/@filipejdus
April 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
April 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
April 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"Vučić has made his regime a trailblazer for modern European rightwing revanchism, the primary driver of regional instability, a hub for Russian and Chinese influence and disruption, and a magnetic pole for modern far-right ethnonationalism and genocidal ideation."

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
Why is the EU ignoring Serbia's student protests?
The policy posture from Brussels remains on autopilot, effectively siding with Serbia's authoritarian president Aleksandar Vučić against the student-led protesters, while continuing 'happy talk' about the enlargement process.
euobserver.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
a moment of silence to honor the victims of tragedy in novi sad

these months of student-led protests across serbia have been truly cathartic. shame and resentment of the recent past, anger and apathy, precarity, helplessness, as if all of it transformed and fuelled a new hope
January 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
novi sad, january 31, 2025. video by serbian green–left front
January 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
tomorrow marks three months since corruption and the arrogance of power claimed 15 lives in the northern city of novi sad. tonight, students from across serbia are gathering there. citizens have lined the streets to welcome them, and local students prepared beds for them to rest.
January 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
on recent events in serbia and some background context

* the author is boban arsenijević, a serbian linguist and professor at university of graz, austria neodinamika.blogspot.com/2025/01/from...
From Tragedy to Resistance: The Rising Wave of Student Protests in Serbia
Serbia is an abducted state, with a degree of totalitarian power hard to imagine for those who have not experienced it firsthand concentrate...
neodinamika.blogspot.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
having full and accurate information about a country is crucial for a local OSCE mission

serbia does not have a presidential system; in fact, the role of the president is largely ceremonial. while the incumbent has indeed grabbed all power, we shouldn't legitimize such overreach
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
razvoj događaja, 1. novembar 2024 - 20. januar 2025.
visual: lazar čovs/bbc news na srpskom
January 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by Milica Jovanović
Tested whether DeepSeek avoids referring to "Tiananmen Square", as per Reddit, and it does!
January 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
a 24-hour sit-in in belgrade began at 10 am today blocking one of the key traffic routes in the city

* the footage was posted on x by a reporter on site
January 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
belgrade by night

📷 aleksandar babić
January 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reposted by Milica Jovanović
Beograd, 27.01.2025
January 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Milica Jovanović
It is remarkable that for all the edgelord shit they still talk in these euphemisms. It’s so incredibly cowardly. Also Italy was famously unified in the 19th century after being conquered and reconquered, italian is the opposite of a timeless ethnic identity bsky.app/profile/thes...
Elon Musk: "race mixing is bad. Italy for Italians!"

*woman next to him moves as far away as possible*
January 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Reposted by Milica Jovanović
Srećno svima koji slave.
January 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
a massive 24-hour sit-in about to begin in belgrade
traffic cameras stills:
January 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
trump's "special envoy for special missions" gave his two gaslighting cents yesterday on protests in serbia. the irony is rich

* nb: every documented instance of violence has been perpetrated by police/secret services or pro-government thugs whose prosecution is now one of the students' demands
January 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
'Cause everybody's sick and tired
We'll all be dancing when you die
Goodbye, my dictator, goodbye
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQOR...
Michelle Gurevich - Goodbye My Dictator
YouTube video by Michelle Gurevich
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Milica Jovanović
Da vas podsjetim i pozovem na vožnju Umetnobilom. Kroz svijet korupcije, partijskih poslušnika, ljudskih prava, Jugoslavije, vozi vas Den Kupekovski uz društvo @danlikov.bsky.social. Prihod od prodaje karata za vožnju, odnosno knjiga, kao i slobodne donacije idu studentima u blokadama.
January 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
more surreal scenes from belgrade this morning instead of the usual rush hour congestion
general strike
January 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
belgrade this morning (via tw): a truly rare sight on a rainy friday morning when streets are usually packed
it's the general strike ✊
January 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
amid massive protests for justice and accountability in serbia, brussels chose to disregard systemic human rights violations, rampant corruption, and the partisan capture of state institutions by the autocratic regime.

that's it. that's the future history textbook footnote.
January 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM