By Tatyana Kekic in Belgrade Tens of thousands of people gathered in the southern Serbian city of Niš on March 1 to mark the fourth month since a deadly railway station disaster, in what has become the largest and most significant challenge to President Aleksandar Vucic’s decade-long rule.

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the southern Serbian town of Nis on Saturday (March 1) to commemorate victims of a railway station disaster and take part in a series of student-led protests that have become the biggest threat yet to President Aleksandar Vucic's grip on power.

NIS, Serbia (AP) — Fireworks and flares lit up the evening sky as Serbia's protesting students arrived Friday in a southern city on the eve of a huge rally this weekend, part of a massive anti-graft movement challenging the Balkan country's populist government.

Tens of thousands of people in Serbia gathered on Saturday for a huge student-led rally that vowed to turn the troubled, populist-run Balkan country into a free nation of justice and rule of law, with many proclaiming "We deserve better.

In Serbia, a student-led protest sparked by a deadly railway station roof collapse has evolved into mass demonstrations challenging President Aleksandar Vucic's decade-long rule. Accusations of corruption fuel the movement,

If the government and police truly prevented opposition councillors from entering the session of the Novi Sad Assembly, in which the new city administration was elected, then even the appearance of democracy no longer exists.