Russian Soft power Gaining Strength in Serbia – Goals
Publisher: Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies – CEAS
Volume: 18 pages, pdf
Description
The primary goal of this Study is to present the public in Serbia with new trends of undemocratic operations of the Kremlin, articulated through the application of Russian soft power in Serbia. Instead of encountering resistance, the Kremlin was met with doors wide open by the Serbian government, itself not shying away from such methods of operation. Similar modes of operation of the Kremlin are seen in EU Member States and countries in the wider neighborhood of the Russian Federation. Their objectives and effects, and how to prevent and mediate them, are a topic debated on various level in the political West and elsewhere, for some years now. On the other hand, in Serbia, which is due to the specific circumstances very fertile ground for Kremlin’s influence in many ways, this issue receives no attention, not even among democratically oriented individuals and structures.