Russian influence

Power at Any Cost: Parallels Between Serbia and Georgia

On 28 November 2024, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which called for new elections in Georgia, following up on condemnation of the October parliamentary elections for being “neither free nor fair”. Nine months prior, in February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution which deemed that the 2023 parliamentary elections in Serbia were also not […]

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How the EU pushes Serbia towards BRICS: Russian Media and Belgrade have the answer

“BRUSSELS CHOOSES SERB-HATER PICULA: They shut the door on Serbia and push it towards BRICS” the media wrote on October 22 when they learned that Croatian politician Tonino Picula was appointed as the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Serbia. The next day, headlines read: “EP Appoints Picula: A Serb-hater Reports on Serbia” and raised the question, […]

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Fair, Fairer, BRICS

Multipolar as the buzzword   The majority of media pieces maintain that the 16th BRICS summit, hosted by Russia in Kazan from October 22 to 24 is set to have historical ramifications. With several outlets suggesting the summit is a turning point in history, the Informer further suggests the outcome of the summit will have […]

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Anti-Western front: How Serbia defends Russian voices

The evil West and the “island of freedom”   Reporters Without Borders recently assessed that Russia Today uses its office in Belgrade to “adjust Kremlin narratives before spreading them throughout Southeast Europe”. In that analysis, created as part of their new initiative, Propaganda Monitor, RWB also called on the EU and its member states to […]

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Govorit Moskva

“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 […]

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Speaking the Kremlin Language: Who Spoke Out After the Serbian Elections

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 […]

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Coronavirus Has Changed the Course of Foreign Policy

  Istinomer talked about Serbia’s relationship with these four global powers in the last years with Milan Krstic, a founder of the Centre for Social Dialogue and Regional Initiatives and a teaching assistant at the International Studies Department of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Igor Novakovic, the director of research in the International and […]

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