Moscow: Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament, claims that Western countries appear to be laying the groundwork for a "colour revolution" in Serbia. Following two mass shootings in the nation, she asserted that the public is being inflamed with rage.
"What we are witnessing today is a classic case of network-centric warfare, whereby net structures dominated by the West use a contentious issue to destabilise the situation in the hopes that it will act as a trigger. She stated this in an interview with Sputnik Serbia on Monday. "Then they incite large-scale protests and deploy ready local opposition.
According to Matvienko, Iran and the Arab Spring uprisings both employed the same strategy. She continued by saying that the US and its allies are attempting to incite public outrage in Serbia over the two mass shootings that occurred in Mladenovac and Belgrade.
Ten people were killed in a Belgrade school shooting on May 3 when one of the students used his father's weapons to attack other students and staff. The next day, a 20-year-old man went on a shooting rampage that left nine people dead across several sites.
The Russian legislator called the politicisation of those tragedies "extreme, monstrous cynicism," which demonstrates "how far the West can go in its desire to quash Serbia and punish it for having an independent policy." This should disgust any normal person, Matvienko continued.
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The Mladenovac case should be thoroughly investigated for any potential manipulation of the "psycho killer" on social media and the dark web, the Russian senator demanded. She asserted that Western special services are "actively using methods of neuro-linguistic programming," a technique that aims to subtly change people's behaviour.
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As evidence of successful resistance to Western attempts to overthrow a government, Matvienko cited Syria and Belarus as examples of how countries can withstand foreign-influenced coups. She claimed that Serbia will also be able to resist, citing the Serbs' recent memory of NATO bombings in 1999 as a source of "deception" resistance.