#SERBIA: Vucic and Putin.Ivana Stradner, FDD
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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#SERBIA: Vucic and Putin.Ivana Stradner, FDD
https://www.newsweek.com/serbia-vucic-putin-war-ally-1884047
1930 Belgrad
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batsu with my colleague of Anastradner of the Foundation for the |
| 0:08.6 | Defense of democracies who writes a great deal about information space. |
| 0:14.0 | And in Serbia, the President Alexander Vutik, |
| 0:19.0 | Vutik has been very clear these last years |
| 0:22.0 | that he sides with the Kremlin |
| 0:24.1 | on almost all issues and has been rewarded for it by the Kremlin. And before |
| 0:29.8 | Ivana we've talked about this and Vutchez has used the information space not only for his own country, |
| 0:36.7 | but for all of the Western Balkans. |
| 0:39.4 | And you've noted that there is not good pushback coming from either the European Union or |
| 0:46.2 | NATO or the US. Has that changed? |
| 0:48.9 | Has Bouchich now have a competition in the information space or does he occupy it all by himself? |
| 0:55.8 | So the Serbian government has been waging a hybrid war against its neighbors. |
| 1:01.2 | Right now, countries such as Montenegro and North Macedonia are a great concern to me |
| 1:06.8 | because both countries that are NATO member states where disturbing government is actually has been using literally hybrid |
| 1:14.3 | Warsaw Toolkit to its advantage there. What's happening right now, for example in |
| 1:21.1 | Kosovo, just a few hours ago the Serbian government actually |
| 1:26.0 | claimed that the Kosovo is trying to provoke a new war over there, which is nothing new |
| 1:31.6 | because they've been claiming that for a very long time and as I |
| 1:36.8 | told you in your show last time that the Serbian government used injured 98 8th of peacekeepers last year and the West didn't do anything about that. |
| 1:48.0 | Now, your question is whether something has changed. |
| 1:52.0 | No, nothing has changed because the West clearly |
| 1:56.0 | still believes that the Serbian government is moving towards the West which is far from |
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