Disinfo: The West is organising everyting in Kosovo and is unable to force Kosovars to obey to existing agrements

Summary

What Pristina calls its strategic goal is a national disaster for Belgrade. Serbian President Vucic is still trying to be subtle. The cynical West not only sees everything, but also organises everything itself.

Serbia is blamed solely because it was appointed guilty by default. The last doubts about the ability of the EU to calm down the Kosovo-Albanians, who openly dismiss any advice and actually dictate their rules to those around them, are being dispelled. The inability and unwillingness of Brussels to induce them to implement the agreed agreements has become even more obvious.

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Disinformation not backed up with evidence, baselessly blaming "The West" for organising "everything" meaning tensions over Kosovo. Tensions have simmered in Kosovo ever since it gained independence from Serbia, despite attempts by EU and U.S. officials to defuse tension. Kosovo proclaimed independence following the bloody Yugoslav wars, Milosevic's atrocities and the war crimes commited in Kosovo and judged by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

In the current phase, both Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti requested some action from NATO to play some role to address the crisis. Elections that were due to take place soon have been moved to April, and Serbia's President said he would ask NATO's peacekeeping mission to allow him to deploy Serbian troops and police in the area.

No evidence is given that "Serbia is blamed solely because it was appointed guilty by default".

On the other hand, Russian officials, media and Telegram channels have been trying for a long time to inflame tensions around Kosovo and the Western Balkans. On 15 November 2022, Russia launched its new online channel RT Balkan in Serbian language, which RT head Margarita Simonyan presented with the words: “Because Serbia is Kosovo”. According to a recent report by the European Council on Foreign Relations, "[the Russian media's] aim is mainly to attack the legitimacy of Kosovo’s statehood, but also to fuel ethnic tensions by portraying the Serb community in Kosovo as victims of an abusive central government.”

See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the EU wants to expand its imperialism in the Balkans, that the West has promoted separatism in Yugoslavia, that Pristina is entirely responsible for the tension in Northern Kosovo, or that the West showed double standards with its treatment of Kosovo and Crimea.

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  • Reported in: Issue 321
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13/12/2022
  • Article language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Serbia, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, EU
  • Keywords: Kosovo, Yugoslavia
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Disinfo: The West is using Kosovo to break Serbia's ties with Russia and China

Kosovo's decision to request EU membership is another step in the US and EU strategy to break and weaken Serbia and prepare an absolute dominion over the former Yugoslavia.

The West is trying to increase pressure on Serbia so it has to break its strategic ties with Russia and China. The latest events in Kosovo happen at the same time that EU representatives met with Balkan states asking to enter the EU, which means entering NATO. This is an important step, supported by terrorist actions, to break Serbia and prevent the solidarity of the Balkans with Russia and China. It’s a policy of aggression.

Dec 12, 2022
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This disinformation narrative is an attempt to stir up feelings against Western countries, baselessly accusing them of being behind events in Kosovo. Although it is true that Kosovo prepared to formally submit an application to join the EU, the claims in this disinformation story about the reasons are not. There is zero evidence to back the claim that the US and the EU are behind this bid or that they have a strategy to ‘break Serbia’, much less to “prevent solidarity with Russia and China”. In the same way, neither Washington nor Brussels are behind ongoing destabilising events in Kosovo. Both the EU and the US are working hard to normalise Serbia-Kosovo relations and to defuse current tensions. This also includes urgent high-level meetings.

The claim that “entering the EU means entering NATO” is patently false, as many countries are part of the EU but not of the NATO military alliance and the other way round. Only in the Western Balkans, three countries -Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia- belong to NATO but are not EU members.

Disinfo: Escalation of tensions in Kosovo caused by NATO

The current escalation of tensions in Kosovo is caused by the destabilising actions of NATO, which wants to worsen the economic and political crisis that the region is experiencing.

Dec 12, 2022
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Disinformation not backed up with evidence, baselessly blaming NATO for a complicated situation that has been long brewing despite EU and US efforts to defuse tensions. NATO, a frequent target of pro-Kremlin disinformation, didn’t play any role in increasing those tensions. In fact, both Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vuciv and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti requested some action from NATO to play some role to address the crisis.

On the other hand, Russian officials, media and Telegram channels have been trying for a long time to inflame tensions around Kosovo and the Western Balkans. On 15 November 2022, Russia launched its new online channel RT Balkan in Serbian language, which RT head Margarita Simonyan presented with the words: “Because Serbia is Kosovo”. According to a recent report by the European Council on Foreign Relations, "[the Russian media's] aim is mainly to attack the legitimacy of Kosovo’s statehood, but also to fuel ethnic tensions by portraying the Serb community in Kosovo as victims of an abusive central government.”

Disinfo: NATO escalated the situation in Kosovo to distract Russia from Ukraine

NATO uses Kosovo in a proxy war against Serbia. The US initiated a ‘soft genocide’ of the Serbs as the autonomous population of Kosovo. The elimination of Indians and other Aborigines is in the Americans’ genetic code. Furthermore, Atlanticists consider Belgrade as Russia’s Trojan horse in Europe and aim at eroding Serbia’s sovereignty to the level of controlled Balkan limitrophes such as Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, and Croatia.

An escalation in Kosovo is linked to Russia’s military successes in Ukraine. Atlanticists aim at provoking Serbia to start military actions for the protection of Kosovo’s Serbians. They wish to force Russia to back Serbs and interfere in the conflict – and to undermine a large-scale Russian winter offensive in Ukraine. Endless provocations and wars are classic for the Pentagon and NATO in all parts of the world.

Dec 12, 2022
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This publication baselessly accuses the US and NATO of waging a war against Serbia and a ‘soft genocide’ of the Serbian population in Kosovo, and generally for a complicated situation that has been long brewing despite EU and US efforts to defuse tensions. NATO, a frequent target of pro-Kremlin disinformation, didn’t play any role in increasing those tensions. In fact, both Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti requested some action from NATO to play some role to address the crisis.

The spark that ignited recent tension between Kosovo and Serbia in 2022 was that Kosovo's government wanted those who live in Serb areas to change their Serbian-issued car number plates for Kosovan-issued ones. About 50,000 people refused to change their car number plates and it increased tension between the Serbian and Kosovo government. Under the facilitation of the EU, Serbia and Kosovo agreed on measures to avoid further escalation.