{"id":41777,"date":"2024-12-04T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crta.rs\/?p=41777"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:36:00","slug":"foreign-agents-law-serbia-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crta.rs\/en\/foreign-agents-law-serbia-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cForeign Agents\u201d Law Initiative in Serbia &#8211; Comparative overview with legislation in Russia, Georgia, and Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MPs from the Serbian Government\u2019s pro-Russian coalition partner &#8211; Movement of Socialists, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vulin &#8211; submitted the <\/span><b>Bill on the Special Registry of Agents of Foreign Influence to the Parliament on November 29, 2024.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposal is substantially <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slobodnaevropa.org\/a\/zakon-o-stranim-agentima-rs-dodik\/32343761.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">similar to the one submitted by the government of Bosnia&#8217;s Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and exercises high matches to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slobodnaevropa.org\/a\/vlada-crna-gora-zakon-strani-agenti\/33153904.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the idea announced by the Serb political fraction in Montenegro<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which currently holds the position of the Speaker of Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Below is a comparative overview of four legislative pieces &#8211; from Serbia, Russia, Georgia, and Hungary &#8211; while the analysis was also cross-referenced with similar laws or their proposals in Republika Srpska, Slovakia, and Kyrgyzstan.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The similarity between all these countries lies in their authoritarian inclinations, following the Russian playbook, where stigmatization of civil society, media, and individuals as &#8220;foreign agents,&#8221; with accompanying enforcement mechanisms, has become one of the main tools in exercising authoritarian control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Serbia&#8217;s proposal seems more liberal, requiring a minimum of 50% of organizational funding to originate from foreign funds for obligatory registration in the special register, <\/span><b>the manner in which it sets definitions of the &#8220;foreign agent,&#8221; and especially that of &#8220;political activity,&#8221; together with its control mechanisms and sanctions, makes it a (rudimentary) version of the Russian legislation.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Read the full overview below.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs from the Serbian Government\u2019s pro-Russian coalition partner &#8211; 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