1998: Year Serbian pro-democracy student group Otpor formed to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic
$25M: Appropriated by the U.S. government to bring down Milosevic.
2.5 million: Number of Otpor stickers reading “gotov je,” or he is finished, in Belgrade in 2000.
24th: Day in September opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica won the popular election.
25th: Day in September Milosevic claimed nobody won the election and set date for re-vote.
5th: Day in October 2000 when hundreds of thousands of people, and one bulldozer, converged on Belgrade, Serbia, to topple the government.
7th: Day in October Milosevic officially resigned
2000: Year Otpor received MTV’s Free Your Mind award in Stockholm.
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