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"Corruption Kills:" How Tragedy Sparked a Protest Movement in Serbia (www.journalofdemocracy.org)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29136407

Serbs are once again taking to the streets to protest the corruption and political dysfunction of President Aleksandar Vučić and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) with Prime Minister Miloš Vučević already resigned.

The demonstrations began after a concrete canopy above the entrance of Novi Sad’s railway station collapsed on November 1, crushing fifteen people in the country’s second-largest city. The station had reopened only in July after undergoing repeated renovations as part of a project to modernize the Belgrade-Budapest railway under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). ...

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