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2023-12-26 Europe

Russian intelligence services against the 'Fist of Soros': the Maidan attempt was thwarted in Serbia

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Bogdan Kish

[REGNUM] After failure in parliamentary and city elections, the pro-Western opposition “Serbia Against Violence” decided to use its favorite method: stage protests demanding new elections and a change of government. However, it was not without informational help from Russia that they managed to fight off the protesters.

Yesterday's footage of a crowd storming the city parliament building in Belgrade spread all over the world. The pro-Western coalition “Serbia Against Violence”, which lost the elections, decided to radically achieve a revision of their results.

According to the latest data, the party “Aleksandar Vučić - Serbia must not stop” (under this brand the ruling Serbian Progressive Party ran in the elections. - Ed.) received more than 47% of the votes, and “Serbia against violence” (SPN) - more than 23 %.

The results are not final, since elections will be held again in a number of polling stations, but they will not be able to radically influence the situation.

Belgrade was the only place where the SPN had a chance to form a majority and take power. However, no one has an advantage in the capital. Neither the Serbian Progressive Party nor Serbia Against Violence were able to form a majority.

Professor Branimir Nestorovic ’s party “We are the voice of the people” could help avoid the deadlock, which unexpectedly gained almost 5% of the votes in the country as a whole and entered parliament. In Belgrade, she also received a lot of votes and could choose which side to form a majority with. However, Nestorovic said that he was not going to enter into coalitions with either the current government or the pro-Western opposition, which would lead to new elections in Belgrade.

Realizing that the only chance to fight for power in Belgrade had been missed, the opposition switched to radical actions.

REACTION OF THE WEST
After the end of the elections, international observers unanimously stated that they did not see any critical violations that could affect the final result of the elections. However, the OSCE monitoring group, after the start of the discontent of “Serbia against violence”, changed its report, which now states that “ numerous violations were identified both during the voting and during the counting of votes.”

Germany was the first to respond to the Serbian elections by demanding that Belgrade “fit in” with the EU candidate country.

“Serbia voted, but OSCE observers report misuse of public resources, voter intimidation and cases of vote-buying. This is unacceptable for a country that is a candidate country for the EU,” the German Foreign Ministry reported on social networks.

After complaints from the OSCE and Berlin, a chain reaction began.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell spoke of the need to “improve” the electoral process in Serbia, and the United States called on Serbia to investigate allegations of irregularities by international observers in the early parliamentary elections (in other words, to re-hold them).

After the first protests of the pro-Western opposition, Viola von Cramon, rapporteur on Kosovo in the European Parliament, also got involved, saying that “ Members of the European Parliament are ready to act as mediators between the ruling party and the opposition in Belgrade in order to ensure a peaceful and democratic dialogue and reduce tensions.”

While a number of European and American politicians supported the pro-Western opposition in words, the European Parliament rapporteur on Serbia Vladimir Bilchik went straight to the demands, saying that the new Serbian government will have three tasks: “normalization” of relations with Pristina (essentially recognition of Kosovo), reforms in the sphere of the rule of law, democracy, structural reforms in the economy, energy and the introduction of sanctions against Russia.

With the US presidential elections and European Parliament elections approaching in 2024, pressure on Serbia is growing exponentially. The collective West wants to resolve the “Serbian issue” as soon as possible, so Brussels and Washington have placed high hopes on the “Serbia against violence” coalition in the early parliamentary elections.

Having failed, the West moved to a violent change of power.

ANTI-VIOLENCE ATTACK
Protests by the pro-Western opposition began at the building of the Central Election Commission, which was demanded to cancel the Belgrade elections due to “massive fraud.” However, the CEC does not have such powers, since city elections are handled by the City Election Commission. After this, “Serbia Against Violence” suspiciously quickly began to demand new, parliamentary elections and began to destroy the CEC building, after which it attacked the director of the Republican Institute of Statistics, Miladin Kovacevic, and several members of the CEC.

“I was hit, pushed and knocked down onto the sidewalk. I fell on my back and my spine hurt. You'll have to go for an examination. Thanks to my colleagues, I managed to return to the building,” Kovacevic said after the attack.

The most massive and aggressive protest occurred on Sunday, December 24.

A large crowd of protesters gathered near the building of the city Assembly. The crowd quickly began to storm the government building, but the police barricaded in the City Council did not allow the protesters to break through.

It is worth noting that people who supposedly oppose violence threw stones, flares and whatever garbage they found at hand at the security forces. The police responded with surprising mildness, using only pepper spray. As a result, several police officers were injured. After some time, the gendarmerie arrived at the scene, did not stand on ceremony with the protesters and began to detain the provocateurs.

Despite the fact that in his address Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called on Serbian citizens not to panic, since “there is no talk of revolution,” the events in Belgrade were reminiscent of a color revolution.

Offenders will be held accountable to the law, but the protests did not end there. Today the opposition is planning new protests and wants to block roads in Belgrade for a certain time. The protests, according to the organizers, will continue until all demands are met. At the same time, it is not said “for safety reasons” which roads we are talking about.

YEARS GO BY, THE METHODS ARE THE SAME
In the whole situation with the protests in Serbia, you need to pay attention to several details.

Firstly, the rallies are well organized, communication between the protesters is well established, as is the coordination of actions during the protests and riots themselves.

Provocateurs skillfully “ignite” the crowd when the general mood declines. The situation with road closures, which only protesters know about, suggests that this is not a “spontaneous rally”, but a clearly planned action in the best traditions of the Maidan.

Secondly, the opposition is actively using students as its main force.

Student organizations that have united under the slogan “Students against violence” are directly involved in the riots. Among them are many who openly collaborate with Western media, NGOs and foundations.

At the same time, the focus on students is clear - the West is counting on a repetition of the events of 1996–1997, when the country, after the victory of the party of ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, was covered by a wave of mass protests, primarily student protests. Already in 2000, students, having gained experience, took an active part in the “bulldozer” revolution, which was crowned with success and the fall of the Milosevic regime.

Separately, it is worth noting that everything new is well forgotten old.

Protesters, primarily students, go to rallies with symbols very reminiscent of “Otpor” - the “Soros fist”, under which the “bulldozer” revolution began and under which more than one government in the world was replaced. This cannot be called an accident.

Thirdly, protesters receive maximum information support from pro-Western media.

TV channel N1, which is owned by the British United Media, has been covering the protests since the early days and devotes a lot of airtime to protest leaders and student organizations. N1 correspondents are present in the front row at all rallies, and when film crews begin to pack up, the protests automatically stop. To make a “beautiful picture,” protesters began bringing posters in English, and more and more EU flags can be seen in the crowd.

The leader of the “We are the Voice of the People” party, Nestorovich, warned about this development of events before the mass rallies: “I’m waiting for posters in foreign languages. This will look good on CNN. You know, when you have posters in Serbian, people in the West can’t read them. There will be posters in English and probably US, German and EU flags will appear.”

THANK THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
Moscow has repeatedly warned Belgrade about the impending color revolution.

As recent events have shown, the Serbian authorities listened to Russia, as a result of which the situation was kept under control without using excessive force. It was the absence of a “sacred victim” that helped avoid stronger pressure in the Western media, as was the case on the Maidan.

At the same time, the Serbian authorities for the first time publicly thanked Russia for its help. The President of Serbia expressed gratitude to foreign intelligence services, and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic directly thanked Moscow.

“I can only say thank you, this may not find understanding in the West, but tonight I especially feel that it is important to stand up for Serbia and thank the Russian intelligence services who had this information and shared it with us. And then we shared with everyone else. And everyone else said: “Well, this is Russian disinformation, this is the spread of fake news,” Brnabic said.

Another noteworthy moment is the meeting of the Serbian President with the Russian Ambassador Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko the morning after the pogroms. The ambassador noted that the attempt to destabilize the situation in Serbia is connected with the firm position of the authorities not to join anti-Russian sanctions.

“The opposition has started protests, which are encouraged and supported from the outside. This is what Vučić was talking about, I cannot go into details because this is confidential information. But he has irrefutable evidence that the incitement and support comes from the West,” the ambassador said.

Such open gratitude to Russia and a meeting with the Russian ambassador does not mean that Belgrade has completely abandoned European integration. However, this is already a clear signal that Serbia is counting on Russian support and reluctance to impose sanctions.

In this regard, the EU and US pressure on Belgrade will increase, but the primary task of the country’s authorities is to prevent Maidan and resist pressure, at least until elections in Europe and the US next year.

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