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The Russian propaganda channel has just opened a website in Serbia, a candidate country for European integration for ten years. Brussels gets annoyed.
by Eva Moysan (in Belgrade)
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L’European Union has closed the door to it, Russia Today (RT) is coming back through the Balkan window. Six months after its ban by Brussels, the Russian propaganda media has just opened a website in Serbia, a candidate country for EU membership. Called RT Balkan, and based in Belgrade, it plans to set up a television channel in the coming months.
Launched on November 15, it is struggling for the moment to make itself known, if we are to believe its number of subscribers on social networks: less than 7,000 on Facebook, not even a thousand on Instagram, far from the million displayed. by one of the best-known Serbian tabloids, Blic. To remedy this, RT Balkan launched an advertising campaign on bus shelters and on huge billboards in the central square of the Serbian capital, where…
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