{"id":20500,"date":"2025-10-13T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/?p=20500"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:24:18","slug":"one-year-since-everything-changed-november-1-in-novi-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masina.rs\/eng\/one-year-since-everything-changed-november-1-in-novi-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Since Everything Changed: November 1 in Novi Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since November 1 last year, Serbia has been fundamentally transformed as citizens, led by students, came together to demand accountability for the Novi Sad tragedy. The government responded by calling protesters terrorists aiming to \u201cruin Serbia\u201d and by slandering them as foreign-funded agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The student-led movement initially declared that its goal was \u201csystemic change\u201d in Serbia, rejecting collaboration with existing parliamentary parties. They called on citizens to organize locally, promoting grassroots neighborhood councils that have since blossomed across the country. In May 2025, students added a new demand: emergency parliamentary elections. Since then, they have been assembling a \u201cStudent List\u201d of candidates they would nominate and support, though the list has not yet been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, after countless protests and significant achievements, the student movement has seemingly gone silent since announcing its demand for elections. In the meantime, a repressive campaign to intimidate students has emerged: police occupied the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad for days, while thugs (and police) were hosted at the State University in Novi Pazar. Many blockades of higher education and cultural institutions were violently broken up, and educational workers have been dismissed from their posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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