Slobodan Milošević, populist president of Serbia who gained power by capitalising on rising ethno-nationalist tensions, had recently come into office. These were the conditions under which Veran Matić, together with several other student journalists from Belgrade University, founded the radio station B92. “Tanks had already begun appearing on the streets, and the police threatened violence against our staff,” Matić said. Matić and his colleagues were buoyed, though, by an international campaign of solidarity in support of independent media in Serbia. “We responded by installing transmitters in Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a clandestine transmitter in Belgrade,” Matić told Index.