- country
- Serbia
- date text
- May 2025
- actor text
- Chey Bowes / RT
- campaign id
- SRB-CAMP-006
- confidence 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.
- date confidence
- month_year
- excerpt
- 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.
- id
- SIG-SRB-047
- incident id
- SRB-047
- normalized date
- 2025-05-01
- observation
- country
- Serbia
- actor primary
- Chey Bowes / RT
- actor type primary
- Foreign State Media
- campaign id
- SRB-CAMP-006
- campaign phase
- Phase 3: Amplification
- case id
- SRB-047
- channel primary
- State/National TV
- confidence 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.
- consequence category
- Social Trust Erosion
- date confidence
- month_year
- escalation stage
- 3
- event date normalized
- 2025-05-01
- event date raw
- May 2025
- harm track
- Track 2 — Social Trust Erosion
- institutional consequence
- Narrative damage
- primary narrative code
- NF-01
- primary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- secondary narrative code
- NF-02
- secondary narrative label
- Financial Corruption / Grant Abuse
- signal id
- SIG-SRB-047
- source text excerpt
- 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.
- source type
- State/National TV
- tactic code
- Pseudo-documentary / Propaganda Film
- target
- NGO sector broadly; CSOs receiving foreign funding
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-05: Foreign Authority Signal
- source type
- State/National TV
- target text
- NGO sector broadly; CSOs receiving foreign funding
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