The results of the analysis pointed at the correspondence of the ideas and motives conveyed by the five narratives to the ideas and motives of the messages promoted within pro-Russian disinformation campaigns, identified and disproved within the EUvsDisinfo EEAS project. One such message is that the entire Western military machine has been deployed against Russia, […]
The new government will have 25 ministries. „This is the first time we have formed a government under war circumstances, when you see that there is no end to this conflict in sight. I am counting on our wisdom, our commitment, and from what the SNS proposes, 55 percent of our quota is women, I […]
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on 17 October that it had carried out a “massive” attack on military targets and energy infrastructure across Ukraine using high-precision weapons. The attacks came a week after a wave of Russian missiles killed at least 19 people across Ukraine in the heaviest bombardment in months, Radio Free Europe […]
What is an average citizen of Serbia really exposed to during one day? Do the headlines make him dizzy? All the announced wars and frequent crises and ‘crises’? What are his earworms? Can he escape the role assigned to him, or is the blue pill an inevitability actually?
“Vučić crushed by both the East and the West,” “EuroPride is a hybrid war against Serbia,” “Litany procession remotely controlled from Moscow,” “America pushing us into the LGBT war,” “EuroPride – a difficult test for Vučić and the country,” – these are some of the headlines used by national newspapers on their front pages to […]
If Vučić and the Progressives, who used to be Radicals, cleanse themselves of everything that has happened in the last ten years with a new name change, then it will be a completely new level of what is incredible, but possible. Because when they renounced the Radicals, the Progressives had to formally renounce Vojislav Šešelj, […]
Looking beyond the context of the war in Ukraine, Russia has now replaced the United States in the lead position in terms of the number of mentions in the Serbian media. Although open support for Russia has subsided somewhat since the beginning of the war, the most influential media still report more often in Russia’s […]
Somehow lost between West and East, democracy and authoritarianism, disturbing facts about the crimes committed in the recent Yugoslav wars and idealized picture of the self, Serbia gives a scary example of how slow and troubled transition can be, and how difficult it is to overcome the past. In the present day, the most powerful […]
The claim that the Croats hate us, and that one should never holiday on their coast, was avoidable only by getting your news from a single newspaper, or staying away from newspapers altogether, and by every means avoiding television channels with news shows. Some wondered what the intention of the tabloid editors could be, whether […]
According to the officials from Russia, China and some of the media outlets and social media users in Serbia, Ukraine hosts dozens of “American labs for biological weapons and destruction of Russians”. Conspiracy narratives mention that these labs precisely are the only Russian targets during the current invasion of Ukraine. None of these theories has […]
