“I used the conversation with Ambassador Botsan-Kharchenko to hand him a letter for the President of the Russian Federation, Putin, in which, alongside congratulations for his electoral victory, I explained the difficult situation faced by the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, significant political challenges that await Serbia, along with gratitude to the Russian Federation […]
The Russian narrative about Maidan – the events in Ukraine from 2013/2014, which Russians portray as a foreign-orchestrated coup, while Ukrainians see it as a revolution of dignity that freed Ukraine from decades-long Kremlin influence – seems to have resonated well in public discourse in Serbia. Just as protests against violence due to two massacres […]
The misinformation we analyzed fits into the anti-gender narrative, including speculations about millions of abortions in Serbia, false information regarding the LGBT+ community, and unfounded accusations of child pornography. Viral posts often target specific groups, such as labeling monkeypox as a “gay disease”. Feminism has also been a frequent target, with claims that Western feminism […]
“Thus far, these have been the cleanest elections (almost, you can never implement an electoral process to perfection), the cleanest and fairest elections. They know it, and everyone knows it. That’s why I’ve never received so many congratulations from people in the European Union, even though I’ve never been a fan of parliamentary elections”, stated […]
On election day, when reports spread through the media and social networks about organized transport of voters from Bosnia and Herzegovina to vote in the Belgrade elections, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić made a statement. Commenting on a video showing buses in front of the Belgrade “Štark” Arena, Brnabić posted on the social network “X” that […]
When the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, expressed “enormous concern about tendencies of nationalist propaganda” in Serbia ahead of the elections held on 17 December, the response came at lightning speed. “She is concerned about nationalist tendencies… She probably listened to the speeches of people from the ‘Serbia against Violence’, who suddenly became patriots. Until […]
Ever since the shooting in the village of Banjska, in which a Kosovo police officer was killed, along with four attackers, representatives of the authorities and most of the media maintain the thesis that Albin Kurti is responsible for all the events in northern Kosovo. As Istinomer wrote before, in the first hours after the conflict, the […]
As one of “a dozen new original television projects”, the owner of Pink, Željko Mitrović, announced on his Instagram account a format called “Žeks’ antics”, that is, “SSSS (The Funny Side of Serbian Unity). That announcement, which also reached TV Pink’s central news, was accompanied by a video sequence featuring the guest appearance of the […]
The All-Russian People’s Front was formed before the 2021 presidential election, in support of Putin’s candidacy, after the end of Medvedev’s presidential mandate. First and foremost, there was the electoral logic of such a move. Putin’s party, United Russia, had been in power for ten years, and at that point it was facing serious problems. […]
From the first hours of the war in Ukraine until today, the media in Serbia went through different stages – from the fact that “Ukraine attacked Russia”, all the way through calling it a “special operation” and not a war, to accepting the reality, but with cheering for Vladimir Putin’s regime and his actions on […]
