- summary
- Vučić deploys 'strani plaćenici' (foreign mercenaries) label against NGOs during ecological protests; Večernje novosti and Politika amplify — continuation of foreign agent framing from May 2024 (SRB-025) through summer.
- country
- Serbia
- date text
- 20/08/2024
- entities
- Aleksandar Vučić; Večernje novosti; Politika
- entity type
- Senior Official; Regime-Aligned Media
- id
- 911
- name
- Aleksandar Vučić; Večernje novosti; Politika
- role
- actor
- NGO sector broadly
- entity type
- Sector
- id
- 886
- name
- NGO sector broadly
- role
- target
- Aleksandar Vučić; Večernje novosti; Politika
- sources
- tactics
- Political Authorization by State Actors
- label
- Political Authorization by State Actors
- code
- TC-02
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Coordinated Media Amplification
- label
- Coordinated Media Amplification
- code
- TC-06
- needs review
- false
- role
- secondary
- Political Authorization by State Actors
- narratives
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- code
- NF-01
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- campaign ids
- campaign phase
- Phase 1: Authorization
- channels
- Legacy Press
- State/National TV
- consequence category
- Social Trust Erosion
- created at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- date precision
- day
- escalation
- 3
- harm track
- Track 2 — Social Trust Erosion
- id
- SRB-039
- institutional consequence
- Narrative damage
- notes
- Fills gap in SRB-CAMP-007 between May 2024 (SRB-025) and Dec 2024 (SRB-014). Triggered by ecological protests. Šabić counter-argument: same donors fund government and SNS.
- occurred on
- 2024-08-20
- signal ids
- trigger type
- TR-02: Civic Mobilization
- updated at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- version
- 1
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