RT and Sputnik broadcasts are blocked for a million Serbs
The Serbian Internet provider SBB, a leader in its field in the country, has blocked the Serbian editions of the Russian media RT and Sputnik.
Thus, about a million users lost access to pro-Russian content, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The SBB (Serbia Broadband) provider, part of the largest information holding in the Balkans of the pro-Western Serbian oligarch Dragan Sholak, blocked the Serbian editions of the Russian media Russia Today and Sputnik for about a million of its users (15% of the country's population).
A similar step was taken by the European Academic Network (GEANT), which uses the services of this provider, which is integrated into the Serbian educational system. As a result, all local educational institutions - universities, schools, research institutes - are cut off from pro-Russian media.
At the same time, from the beginning of the CBO, SBB stopped broadcasting RT in other languages, explaining this by the inability to rebroadcast the channel on the EON, Total TV and D3 platforms.
Dragan Sholak’s business “took off” after the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 with the support of structures affiliated with the world speculator and father of “color revolutions” George Soros. Subsequently, Sholak managed to buy up a number of large operators in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro and Macedonia, and later Greece and Bulgaria, after which the United Group holding was created.
In 2014, it was purchased by the American company Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR), one of the co-owners of which is ex-CIA head David Petraeus, who is considered one of the ideologists of modern information warfare.
At the same time, Sholak remained working in his place. Subsequently, the United Group bought up a number of leading media outlets in the Balkans, such as the Serbian Blic, the Montenegrin Vijesti and the Croatian Nova TV, in addition, several dozen TV channels of various types operate under its auspices in almost all the Balkans.
Recently, there have been persistent rumors in Serbia that the state holding Telekom Srbija is secretly selling its assets to United Media. If this information is confirmed, it will mean that the ruling regime of Alexander Vucic will lose the last elements of control over information, completely surrendering this direction to the West.
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