This photograph taken on November 1, 2026 shows Ljiljana Tomovic, full professor at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade posing for a portrait in Novi Sad. Tomovic has supported the students since the blockades began and joined them at protests."It took a terrible tragedy for people to realise we had reached the edge of the abyss. After that, nothing was the same. Young people realised they did not want to live in a country with such values, and something began that brought us freedom and a sense of justice. We left them the mistakes we made for decades, and they turned them into something beautiful and joyful." Serbia's student anti-graft protest movement ended 14 years of right-wing nationalist rule, despite not having any clearly identifiable leaders. Final results from last month's vote showed the Student List 140 won seats in the 250-seat parliament, enough to govern alone. Two years of protests were sparked by the collapse of a concrete canopy at a railway station which killed 16 people in November 2024 in the northern city of Novi Sad. (Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC / AFP via Getty Images)