Top Russian-Serbian propaganda this week

The week we left behind began with the propaganda of Radivoje Mladenovic from the Institute for Serbian Language “SANU”, who falsely claimed that Kosovo is trying to “change the identity of the Gorani community”.

The Serbian “Informer” was not silent either, once again serving Russian disinformation, this time falsely claiming that “Ukraine is on the brink of civil war”. The Serbian “Informer” took this article from the newspaper “Asia Times”, whose title was changed.

On the other hand, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić went so far as to misinform even about the European Parliament’s resolution on the elections in Serbia.

Brnabić with misinformation about Kosovo and tried to give a different direction to the resolution condemning the irregularities of vote manipulations in the December 17 elections in Serbia.

“The EP resolution continues the pressure on Serbia, it has nothing to do with the elections.” The resolution is a form of pressure and a form of punishment for two basic things: first, as they say, we are violating the constitutionality of the so-called Kosovo and what the European Parliament is complaining about, and why Aleksandar Vučić insisted decided that Serbia should vote against Kosovo’s so-called membership in the Council of Europe, which was also criticized in the European Parliament resolution of October 2023,” she claimed in an interview for TV Pink.

“Shock in Europe, NATO is splitting?” “Russia has made an urgent announcement, unexpected news has shocked the continent,” read the next article with disinformation content about the North Atlantic Alliance of NATO, published on Monday in the Serbian newspaper “Informer”, a statement made by Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Russian-Serbian propaganda also used the new CBK regulation, which recognizes the euro as the only currency.

It was the Russian ambassador to Serbia, Borcan Harchenko, who continued the Russian narrative in an interview with “Sputnik Srbija”, propagating the ban on the Serbian dinar in Kosovo and linking it to the “ethnic cleansing” of Serbs.

“They are banning the dinar in order to expel the Serbian people. We see that the memory of the Serbs is also being erased in financial matters. The situation is extremely painful. Measures have been taken to expel the Serbian people and to settle the Albanians. The ban on the dinar is one of the worst measures for the financial system in the northern part of Kosovo. This is also Belgrade’s help, without which the Serbs down there cannot live. If we talk about the currency that has the right to be there, the northern part of Kosovo belongs to Serbia, therefore the Serbian dinar has the right to exist there,” he said.

The week we left behind ended with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda reaching its peak when he said that “Ukraine started the war”. He propagandized in the interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, where he allegedly claimed: “The war was not started by Russia, but by Ukraine in 2014 and the Kremlin is trying to end the war on February 24, 2022.” [Ukrainian authorities] started a war in the Donbass in 2014. All this against the background of the opening of NATO doors [in Ukraine].”

/G. Venhari, The Geopost