Why is the student victory in Serbia really a unique event? On October 25, Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party, in power for more than 14 years, lost the parliamentary elections to the student list, a movement that arose a little over a month ago and grew out of protests after the collapse of the canopy at the Novi Sad train station. The winners were not supported by Western or Russian politicians, local oligarchs or any existing Serbian political forces. How did they win? claims Alexander Baunov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Berlin Center for Russian and European Studies. Open with VPN | No VPN.