Protest against the lithium mine in Serbia

Tens of thousands gathered in Belgrade on Saturday in a protest against the opening of a lithium mine in Serbia, despite warnings from officials about their “suspected plot” to topple populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government. President Vucic said earlier that he had been informed by Russian intelligence services that “massive riots and a coup” were being prepared in Serbia on Saturday by unspecified Western powers, who want to oust him from power. The large crowd chanted “There will be no mining” and “Treason, treason”. Government officials and state-controlled media waged a widespread campaign against the rally, comparing it to the Maidan uprising in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, that led to the 2013 ouster of the country's then-pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. The organizers of the protest in Belgrade said that the protests will be peaceful. “Our rally today is ecological and has no political ambitions, but the government has accused us of trying to organize a coup,” said the well-known actress Svetlana Bojkovic. “We came here today to speak out against something that is beyond politics,” she said. In the evening hours, protesters blocked the railway lines in Belgrade. The rally in the center of the capital followed weeks of …

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