{"id":"ACT-SRB-063","name":"Dejan Ristić","country":"Serbia","entity_id":676,"description":{"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.","country":"Serbia","website":"muzejgenocida.rs","actor_id":"ACT-SRB-063","case_ids":"SRB-075","actor_name":"Dejan Ristić","actor_type":"Senior Official","campaign_ids":"SRB-CAMP-013; SRB-CAMP-011","actor_category":"Government Official","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.","x_/_twitter_handle":"","youtube_channel_/_url":""},"entity_type":"Senior Official","original_id":"ACT-SRB-063"}