Defend the Rivers of Stara Planina movement (ORSP)

A movement that, together with the Association of Local Communities of Stara Planina, organised protests against small hydropower plants, drawing thousands of people in Pirot and Belgrade. After a meeting in 2019, its representatives said Vučić would propose a ban on building small hydropower plants in protected areas. Because the state had failed for a year and a half to enforce the order to remove the pipes, in 2020 local residents and activists breached the pipe on the Rakitska river themselves, and the police did not intervene.

Affairs

  • Small hydropower plants and Stara Planina: He called for construction to be halted and for power plants built in breach of the law to be demolished. In Rakita, local residents and activists broke open a pipe

People

  • Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta: president of the “Defend the Rivers of Stara Planina” movement