Good morning! Lazanski from Ali Express, Igor Damjanovic, independently rules the scene of Putin’s propagandists in the Serbian World. How did Igor go from a relatively marginal associate of IN4S to the main military analyst of the mainstream media in Serbia?
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Igor Damjanovic phenomenon
It’s been seven or eight years since someone drew my attention to Mr. Damjanovic. Do I know this propagandist from Budva? And it was actually written on Damjanovic’s profile that he was from Budva, although no one here knew him at the time. What I saw was mostly standard Kremlin propaganda. A mixture of Stalinism and Orthodox radicalism. Regretting for Slobodan Milosevic. But an extreme variant of all this.
That didn’t bother anyone in the pre-30-August period. Igor was also taken to Brussels. He was at the NATO Headquarters with one of the NGOs from Montenegro. Later, the current director of the Gradska TV station engaged him in workshops as a journalist-investigator. Or something like that.
At that time, Igor did not mind spreading lies and stalking Russian opposition members who were staying in Montenegro through his social networks. I was also drawn attention to Igor when a thousand handwritten letters were sent from Belgrade to Herceg Novi before the elections in that city. In those letters, Vijesti, me and the former deputy US ambassador – now ambassador-nominee Bix Ali, were accused of leading a gay sect that was destroying the youth and that formed the Democrats. That case was investigated and nothing happened. The letter was signed by the Orthodox youth led by priest Miajlo Backovic. Backovic denied having written the letters.
Damjanovic came to mind because he wrote about me again yesterday. He referred to me as an associate of the SBU of Ukraine. This is not the first time that I have been targeted as a spy for various services. That is the modus operandi of the entire team. The current Parliament Speaker said the same thing about me when he was visiting Jovana Jeremic on Serbian national broadcaster. Damjanovic and his intimus Vladimir Vukovic, who runs Vucic’s tabloid “Alo” in Montenegro, registered to a company from Berane, wrote and continues to write that I was more or less involved in the murder of Darya Dugina. And these people aren’t kidding.
And it’s not that it doesn’t have an effect. With a constant mixture of insults and disparagement through their portals and their network of profiles on social networks, pro-Russian activists target and trivialize people in Montenegro. Nobody likes such attention, and people withdraw from public space.
A much more serious problem is that these people also threaten with state persecution. Especially since now their like-minded people are deeply infiltrated in many institutions of the system. Their dream is to establish a regime in Montenegro that would persecute people. From the pages of ALO, I was recently threatened that the prosecuting authorities would deal with me. Yesterday, on Damjanovic’s profile, in an exchange of support with Vladimir Dobricanin, Damjanovic asked United Montenegro to stop me. Me and the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Culture (FCJK). I only hope that he was not referring to Mr. Danilovic’s position as director of the Agency for Quality Control of Education, in front of which I am currently going through the accreditation process for the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (FLAS) with my colleagues who escaped from Putin. I hope and want to believe that for Mr. Danilovic, respect for the law is above all political agendas, both when it comes to FCJK and when it comes to FLAS.
The future and fate of Montenegro are terrifying, if a regime like Putin’s reigns in it. Take my word for it. Bearing in mind that all the pores of our government have been filled with his fans, we have reason to seriously worry that the fate of Russia and Belarus will not befall us.
That’s it for today and this week. We wish you a pleasant weekend. See you again on Monday.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst and columnist
(The opinions and views of the authors of the columns are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
