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Otpor! (Cyrillic: ОТПОР!) was a pro-democracy youth movement in Serbia which is widely credited for leading the eventually successful struggle to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. The students who led Otpor (whose name means "Resistance" in the Serbian language) used Serb translations of Gene Sharp's writings on nonviolent action as a theoretical basis for their campaign.

The candidate list of "Otpor - Freedom, Solidarity and Justice" led by Čedomir Cupić won 62,116 (1,6%) votes in the Serbian parliamentary election, 2003, but no seats in the parliament.