Pancevo refinery of NIS Serbian Oil Industry, mainly Russian-owned, is suspending production due to a lack of crude oil as a result of US sanctions imposed over Russia for the war with Ukraine; NIS will continue to supply domestic market

Extensive injuries sustained in a police crackdown on anti-government protesters in Valjevo in August 2025 show the use of force was often ‘punitive’, not an immediate response to danger, according to a report compiled by forensic medicine experts

Chinese and Russian companies have contributed in drafting Serbia’s mining regulations, now adopted by Parliament, raising concerns among non-governmental organizations, citizens and experts that say the practice could hide concessions

Police raids on opposition party's offices and University of Belgrade rectorate have respectively sparked a wave of indignation and clashes with security forces outside the athenaeum

Standard and Poor's credit rating agency has kept Serbia’s ‘Stable’, citing an economic outlook at the investment-grade level but underlining that political polarisation and protests may affect its appeal to investors