University of Belgrade

In 2019 its Professional Ethics Committee found that Siniša Mali had copied other people's texts word for word on 51 pages of his doctoral thesis, and the Senate unanimously revoked his degree. The Administrative Court twice annulled those decisions on procedural grounds, and the case has been stalled since January 2024. When the government cut academic staff salaries, the University refused to be an “instrument of pressure on students” and asked the Constitutional Court to review the decree, while the rector and deans were targeted by an Informer campaign.

Affairs

• Siniša Mali's annulled doctorate: The Board found that others' texts had been copied, the Senate annulled the doctorate twice, and new proceedings have stalled since 2024
• NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones: Said the rector's chief of staff had been under covert surveillance for almost a year on the BIA's orders and asked the prosecutor's office to establish the circumstances
• Students as “terrorists”: a campaign by the authorities and tabloids: Rector and deans targeted by Informer campaign; they announce legal action
• Pressure on universities and professors' salaries
• Government decree and professors' pay cuts: Teaching staff's salaries cut; sought a constitutional review of the decree

People

• Jovo Bakić: professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
• Ognjen Radonjić: professor at the University of Belgrade
• Vladan Đokić: rector of the University of Belgrade
• Ognjen Radonjić: full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
• Vladimir Obradović: professor at the University of Belgrade
• Ognjen Radonjić: head of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade