{"id":12348,"date":"2025-01-28T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/?p=12348"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:38:28","slug":"vuciqi-pa-fakte-implikon-agjencite-e-lajmeve-nga-kosova-e-kroacia-si-nxitese-te-protestave-ne-serbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/disinfo\/vuciqi-pa-fakte-implikon-agjencite-e-lajmeve-nga-kosova-e-kroacia-si-nxitese-te-protestave-ne-serbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Vucic, without evidence, implicates news agencies from Kosovo and Croatia as instigators of the protests in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 18, 2025, the Serbian media outlet \u201cSputnik.rs<\/a>\u201d published an article titled: \u201cVucic Announced: Western Agencies Are Trying to Stage a Color Revolution in Serbia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the content of this article, the media presented the statement of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, given to \"Happy\" Television<\/a>\u201d. In it, Vucic claims that a revolution is being attempted in Serbia and that foreign instructors from the West are behind it. According to him, students, through intermediaries, are receiving instructions on how to block roads. As he continued to blame Western news agencies, he also included Croats and Albanians, without providing any evidence to support this claim. His allegations have also been echoed by Russian media operating in Serbia, such as Sputnik.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a combination of the interests of several Western and regional news agencies, particularly Croats and Albanians from Kosovo,\u201d stated Vucic, without naming any specific media outlet from Kosovo. The protests in Serbia have also sparked interest in Kosovo and have been widely covered by the media. The coverage has mainly focused on the demands of the students toward the Serbian government and the real reasons<\/a> behind the mass mobilization of the protests.<\/p>\n

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In the protests that began<\/a> on November 26, students demanded that responsibility be determined and that those guilty of the accident at the Novi Sad railway station be prosecuted. They also called for the prosecution of those who had attacked students during an action expressing solidarity with the victims and the injured in the Novi Sad train station tragedy<\/a>, where 15 people lost their lives after a concrete slab collapsed.<\/p>\n

In addition to Vucic, other Serbian officials have also linked the protests to Kosovo. The Director of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic<\/a>, stated that elements from the state they contest played a role in these protests.<\/p>\n

The same approach<\/a> was taken during the environmental associations' protests following Serbia\u2019s agreement with the EU to open a lithium mine in the Jadar Valley. Serbia\u2019s top leaders, with unfounded claims, attempted to shift the blame of the protests onto the West. While Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic accused Kosovo of having a hand in organizing the protests, Serbian President Vucic went even further, alleging that the protesters were part of a \"hybrid\" war supported by the West against the Serbian government. Such statements aim to create confusion among the public and divert political responsibility for the current situation in Serbia.<\/p>\n

*This article is published as part of the Western Balkans Regional Initiative against disinformation.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cWestern Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: exposing malign influences through watchdog journalism.\u201d<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M\u00eb 18 janar 2025, mediumi serb \u201cSputnik.rs\u201d ka publikuar nj\u00eb artikull me titullin: \u201cVu\u00e7iqi njoftoi: Agjencit\u00eb per\u00ebndimore po p\u00ebrpiqen t\u00eb b\u00ebjn\u00eb nj\u00eb revolucion me ngjyr\u00eb n\u00eb Serbi\u201d. N\u00eb p\u00ebrmbajtje t\u00eb k\u00ebtij artikulli, ky medium ka paraqitur deklarat\u00ebn e presidentit t\u00eb Serbis\u00eb, Aleksandar Vu\u00e7iq, dh\u00ebn\u00eb p\u00ebr Televizionin \u201cHappy\u201d. Aty, Vu\u00e7iqi thot\u00eb se n\u00eb Serbi po tentohet […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1241,363],"tags":[664,1835,12,2436],"ppma_author":[28],"class_list":["post-12348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debunking","category-disinfo","tag-kosovo","tag-protests","tag-serbia","tag-west"],"authors":[{"term_id":28,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"disinfo","display_name":"Disinfo","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"Disinfo","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12350,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions\/12350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}