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2024 Serbian Environmental Protests
In July 2024, a series of environmental protests began in Serbia against the Jadar mine, a European Union–backed and Government of Serbia, Serbian government-approved lithium mining project. The project was proposed by Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto (corporation), Rio Tinto to develop Europe's largest lithium mine in the West Serbian region of Jadar (Serbia), Jadar, causing significant backlash due to its potential Environmental degradation, environmental damage and Exploitation of natural resources, exploitation of the local population for economic and geopolitical gain. Background Lithium is a critical element needed for the production of Electric battery, batteries used in electric vehicles and mobile devices, and had significantly increased demand in the 2020s due to the global shift towards renewable energy and electric transportation, especially for the automotive industry. The European Union and the United States have designated lithium as a "strategically important resour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šabac
Šabac ( sr-Cyrl, Шабац, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river Sava. , the city proper has population of 51,163, while its administrative area comprises 105,432 inhabitants. Name The name ''Šabac'' was first mentioned in Republic of Dubrovnik, Ragusan documents dating to 1454. The origin of the city's name is uncertain; it is possible its name comes from the name of the city's main river, the Sava. The city is known by a variety of different names: ''Zaslon'' in medieval Serbian, ''Szabács'' in Hungarian language, Hungarian, ''Böğürdelen'' in Turkish language, Turkish, and ''Schabatz'' in German language, German. History Archaeological evidence attests to more permanent settlement in the area from the Neolithic. In the Middle Ages, a Slavs, Slavic settlement named ''Zaslon'' existed at the cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Serbia)
The Democratic Party (; , abbr. DS) is a social democratic list of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. Srđan Milivojević has led the party as its Democratic Party (Serbia)#List of presidents, president since 2024. The party is colloquially known as the ''žuti'' (yellows) because of one of its main colours. DS was founded in 1990 by a group of intellectuals who sought to revive the Democratic Party (Yugoslavia), Democratic Party, which was active in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Dragoljub Mićunović was the first president of DS until 1994 and under his leadership DS gained representation in the National Assembly of Serbia and took part in anti-government protests against Slobodan Milošević. After Zoran Đinđić's election as president of DS in 1994, DS was reorganised. Đinđić led the party into the Coalition Together, Together coalition, and DS took part in the 1996–1997 protests in Serbia, 1996–1997 protests that occurred after the Electoral Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Vučić
Aleksandar Vučić, (born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, First Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014, and Prime Minister of Serbia from 2014 to 2017. Born in Belgrade, Vučić graduated as a lawyer from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Faculty of Law of University of Belgrade. Vučić began his political career in 1993, as a member of the Far-right politics in Serbia, far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in the National Assembly of Serbia. In 1995, he became the secretary-general of SRS. He was appointed Ministry of Information and Telecommunications (Serbia), minister of information in 1998 in the government of Mirko Marjanović. During his tenure as minister, which lasted until the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000, Vučić introduced restrictive meas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratko Ristić
Ratko (Cyrillic script: Ратко) is a male given name of Slavic origin. It is a diminutive form of the names Ratibor and Ratimir. Notable people *Ratko Čolić (1918–1999), Serbian footballer * Ratko Dautovski, Macedonian percussionist, interested in world percussion * Ratko Delorko (born 1959), German pianist, composer, producer and conductor *Ratko Đokić (1940–2003), Yugoslavian-Swedish mob boss, a leader of the so-called "Cigarette Mafia" * Ratko Dostanić (born 1959), Serbian football (soccer) head coach * Ratko Glavina (born 1941), Croatian actor * Ratko Janev (1939–2019), physicist * Ratko Kacian (1917–1949), Croatian footballer *Ratko Mladić (born 1942), Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995 *Ratko Nikolić (born 1977), Serbian handballer * Ratko Ninković (born 1967), football manager and former player from Bosnia-Herzegovina * Ratko Perić (born 1944), the Bishop of Mostar-Duvno and Apostolic Administrator of Trebin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta
Aleksandar Jovanović ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Јовановић; born 30 September 1966), commonly known by his nickname Ćuta, is a Serbian environmental and political activist who has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since August 2022. Born in Belgrade, Jovanović often stayed at Stara Planina, a mountain in Eastern Serbia, and was interested in rock music, football, and chess during his youth. He founded the Defend the Rivers of Stara Planina organisation in 2017, which primarily concentrated on combating the construction of small hydros in the Stara Planina region, although over time, Jovanović shifted his presence over other regions of Serbia. He gained recognition in the media and has been noted as one of the representatives of environmental activism in Serbia. Jovanović has organised environmental protests and gatherings around Serbia and managed to stop the construction of several projects. Jovanović was the organiser of the Ecological Upri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Of Serbia
The Serbian Police (), formally the Police of the Republic of Serbia (), is the national civilian police force of the Serbia. The Serbian Police are responsible for all local and national law enforcement. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia), Ministry of Internal Affairs. History Serbian Revolution The roots of public security in revolutionary Serbia appear during the Serbian Revolution. At the 1807 Revolutionary Assembly police authority in ''nahijas'' (districts) was entrusted to ''Voivode, voivodes'' and ''obor knezovi'', and in local communities to local ''knezovi''. The executive officers of the ''obor knezovi'' were represented by ''golaći'' or ''bećari''. Later, the role of executive bodies of the newly established courts was taken over by ''Pandur, pandurs''. The organization of police authorities in Belgrade and other places was established on 30 December 1807 with regular and permanent police force stationed in Belgrade, which consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia Must Not Stop
Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Must Not Stop (, AV–SNSDS), commonly shortened to just Serbia Must Not Stop, is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of Serbia, led by the Serbian Progressive Party. SNS gained its parliamentary status following the formation of "Forward, Serbia" parliamentary group in September 2008, and a month later it was renamed to "Serbian Progressive Party", following the registration of the party. It had cooperated with the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and New Serbia (political party), New Serbia (NS) from its formation until 2010, when SNS formed a coalition with NS, and two other parties, the Movement of Socialists (PS) and Strength of Serbia Movement (PSS). The coalition was formalised for the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, 2012 parliamentary election under the "Let's Get Serbia Moving" banner, in which it won 73 seats, and formed a government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and United Regions of Serbia (URS). Tomislav Niko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party Of Serbia
The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a populist political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006. SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia with Slobodan Milošević as its first president. In the 1990 general elections, SPS became the ruling party of Serbia while Milošević was elected president of Serbia. During Milošević's rule, SPS relied on the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) from 1992 to 1993 while it later led several coalition governments with SRS, New Democracy, and Yugoslav Left. Mass protests against SPS were held in 1991, and after being accused of falsifying votes in major urban cities, such as Belgrade and Niš, 1996–1997 protests were also organised. The Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition defeated SPS in the 2000 general elections but Milošević declined to accept the results. This resulted in Milošević's ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime minister of Serbia, has served as its president since 2023. Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a split from the Serbian Radical Party, SNS served in opposition to the Democratic Party (Serbia), Democratic Party until 2012. SNS gained prominence and became the largest opposition party due to their anti-corruption platform and the protests in 2011 at which they demanded early elections. In 2012, Nikolić 2012 Serbian presidential election, was elected president of Serbia and succeeded by Vučić as president of SNS. A coalition government led by SNS and Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) was also formed. Vučić became prime minister in 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, 2014 while SNS became the largest party in Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Serbia
The government of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Government ( sr-cyrl, Српска Влада, Srpska Vlada), is the executive branch of government in Serbia. The affairs of government are decided by the Cabinet of Ministers, which is led by the prime minister. The government is housed in the Government Building in Belgrade. Jurisdiction According to the Constitution of Serbia, the Government: * Determines and guides policy * Executes laws and other general acts of the National Assembly * Adopts regulations and other general acts for the purpose of enforcing laws * Proposes to the National Assembly the laws and other general acts and gives an opinion on them when submitted by another proposer * Directs and coordinates the work of public administration bodies and supervises their work * Perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Party (Serbia, 2017)
The People's Party (, abbr. Narodna) is a conservative List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been led by Vladimir Gajić since 2024. Narodna was formed in October 2017 after Vuk Jeremić re-organised the People's Movement of Serbia (NPS), a political party led by Miroslav Aleksić (People's Party politician), Miroslav Aleksić. It cooperated with Dragan Đilas and the Movement of Free Citizens (Serbia), Movement of Free Citizens and Serbian Left (2015), Serbian Left, with whom Narodna took part in the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election and won 19% of the popular vote. Narodna then joined the Alliance for Serbia (SZS), a coalition formed by Đilas, which organised 2018–2020 Serbian protests, mass anti-government protests after the physical attack on Borko Stefanović in November 2018. Together with SZS, Narodna boycotted the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, 2020 parliamentary election, claiming that its conditions would not be free and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (Serbia)
Together () was a green political party in Serbia. Biljana Stojković and Nebojša Zelenović served as its co-presidents. Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta was also its co-president until September 2023. The party was formed in June 2022 as a merger of Together for Serbia, Ecological Uprising, and Assembly of Free Serbia, which were member parties of the We Must electoral alliance that took part in the April 2022 general elections. During 2023, it was an organiser of mass anti-government protests, which were held between May and November. Jovanović, one of the original co-presidents, left Together with other Ecological Uprising members due to internal disagreements in September 2023. Despite the Serbia Against Violence coalition winning 65 seats in the National Assembly in the 2023 parliamentary election, Together did not win any and thus lost representation. In December 2024, the party merged into the Democratic Party. Together served in opposition to the Serbian Progre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
