- summary
- Irish journalist Chey Bowes releases English-language RT documentary 'The Shadow War' claiming to expose a network of Serbian NGOs financed by foreign donors and orchestrating a 'colour revolution.' Domestic pro-government media amplify immediately.
- country
- Serbia
- date text
- May 2025
- entities
- Chey Bowes / RT; RT Balkan
- entity type
- Foreign State Media
- id
- 927
- name
- Chey Bowes / RT; RT Balkan
- role
- actor
- NGO sector broadly; CSOs receiving foreign funding
- entity type
- Sector
- id
- 928
- name
- NGO sector broadly; CSOs receiving foreign funding
- role
- target
- Chey Bowes / RT; RT Balkan
- sources
- citation
- BCSP 'Manufactured Threat' Feb 2026 p.20; Vreme 2025
- tactics
- Pseudo-documentary / Propaganda Film
- label
- Pseudo-documentary / Propaganda Film
- code
- TC-15
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Academic / Foreign Authority Legitimization
- label
- Academic / Foreign Authority Legitimization
- code
- TC-29
- needs review
- false
- role
- secondary
- Pseudo-documentary / Propaganda Film
- narratives
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- code
- NF-01
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Financial Corruption / Grant Abuse
- label
- Financial Corruption / Grant Abuse
- code
- NF-02
- needs review
- false
- role
- secondary
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- campaign ids
- campaign phase
- Phase 3: Amplification
- channels
- Foreign state media (RT)
- State/National TV
- consequence category
- Social Trust Erosion
- created at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- date precision
- month
- escalation
- 3
- harm track
- Track 2 — Social Trust Erosion
- id
- SRB-047
- institutional consequence
- Narrative damage
- notes
- RT-produced English-language documentary targeting Serbian NGO funding — international audience version of domestic foreign agent narrative. Same tactic as CZDS pseudo-documentary (SRB-001) but produced by Russian state media for global distribution.
- occurred on
- 2025-05-01
- signal ids
- trigger type
- TR-05: Foreign Authority Signal
- updated at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- version
- 1
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