- country
- Serbia
- description
- country
- Serbia
- actor category
- Government Official
- actor id
- ACT-SRB-063
- actor name
- Dejan Ristić
- actor type
- Senior Official
- campaign ids
- SRB-CAMP-013; SRB-CAMP-011
- case ids
- SRB-075
- notes
- ANALYTICALLY IMPORTANT: documents GONGO-to-ministry pipeline. Museum of Victims of Genocide = state cultural institution functioning as legitimizer infrastructure — produces historical narratives serving regime ideological framing. Ristić used Museum to build documentary/narrative production capacity, then moved to control media regulatory framework as minister. Cross-ref SRB-075 (media law amendments December 2024 — minister imposes draft bypassing working group). CINS documents false educational credentials claim (claimed FPN degree, never completed). Srebrenica genocide denial documented by Danas/Istinomer. No X handle confirmed. PARKED: assistant minister/state secretary in Ministry of Justice or Ministry of Labour with GONGO/documentary founder connection — specific individual not confirmed from public sources, requires field knowledge verification from CINGO mission notes.
- role in campaigns
- Minister of Information and Telecommunications (May 2024 – April 2025). Bypassed working group process to impose draft Law on Public Media Services December 2024 (SRB-075). Institutional pipeline: State Secretary Ministry of Culture → v.d. director Narodna biblioteka Srbije (2012-2013) → State Secretary Ministry of Culture and Information (2013-2015) → v.d. director Museum of Victims of Genocide (May 2021 – July 2024) → 3rd place on "Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Must Not Stop" electoral list (November 2023) → Minister of Information (May 2024). Documentary/legitimizer function: authored book basis for state documentary "Memories from the Ashes" (Filmske novosti 2016); screenwriter/consultant for multiple documentary series produced through state-affiliated channels (NDH genocide, WWI centenary, Danube fortresses). Museum of Victims of Genocide: institution focused primarily on WWII genocide against Serbs (NDH) — not Srebrenica. Public negation of Srebrenica genocide documented.
- website
- muzejgenocida.rs
- entity id
- 676
- entity type
- Senior Official
- id
- ACT-SRB-063
- name
- Dejan Ristić
- original id
- ACT-SRB-063
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