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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWithout any intention of commenting on or disproving the author\u2019s personal opinion, we cannot ignore the fact that the vocabulary used is neither appropriate nor characteristic of academic pieces of research of the Institute, whose name suggests influence, along with expertise and professionalism. <\/p>\n\n\n
Shift in writing about Montenegro and Serbia<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nThe research<\/span><\/strong><\/a> on Security-intelligence activities at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic<\/em><\/strong>, published on March 29 of this year, suggests that Montenegro is hiding results in the fight against coronavirus and withholding the data on the infected, presented itself as one of the few countries with no Covid-19 cases, which did not actually reflect the real situation in the country<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBesides the negative narrative about Montenegro and its President, favoring the Serbian President and Serbia is evident, and they have been portrayed as victims of the intelligence services\u2019 activities in the region. The research Serbia 2020: Serbia \u2013 scene of confrontation of intelligence services? (published on May 15) suggests that cooperation Podgorica-Zagreb-Pristina is directed against Aleksandar Vucic without providing any proof for the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dfcme.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/vucici-becirovic.jpg\")
Vucic and Becirovic at the meeting in Belgrade<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAnalyzing IFIMES\u2019 pieces of research, published from 2016 until 2020, a set of inconsistencies has been seen. The differences are visible in the tone and shift in writing about specific countries and actors. The changes happened after the meeting<\/span><\/strong><\/a> between President Aleksandar Vucic and IFIMES\u2019 director Zijad Becirovic (on February 12, 2020), even though there was no significant political or social events in the preceding year that would support such a shift.<\/p>\n\n\nVucic \u2013 a factor of instability, Djukanovic \u2013 a leader<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nBefore the meeting in question, pieces of research had mostly been criticizing the politics of Aleksandar Vucic, calling it a successor of Milosevic and Seselj, and his party right-wing, conservative, and in many aspects nationalistic<\/em>. Vucic was portrayed as a factor of instability in the region, whose destructive politics is based on media control, creating of crisis in the regional countries, schizophrenic foreign policy and inability to face the past. Both <\/em>Vucic and Dacic<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> have been constantly creating problems and crisis to appear as problem-solvers and solution-makers, thus ensuring themselves a status of regional leaders. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dfcme.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Narativi-eng-1030x786.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, President of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic is presented as a leader who is establishing harmonic relations with all ethnic communities and whose country became a prominent factor of stability<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in the region, with one of the best macroeconomic indicators in the region.<\/p>\n\n\nChange of tone \u2013 <\/span>roles reversed <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\nIn the research<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/span>Current events in the region 2019: Who wants to destabilize Serbia?<\/em><\/strong> published on June 18, 2019, after the meeting of Vucic and Becirovic, the tone of writing is changed and the narratives opposite to the previous analyses of IFIMES are increasingly noticeable. Vucic is presented as a factor of peace and stability in the Balkans and his current position is the most difficult. Even though he has been criticized for media control, now he is the target of the financed media network<\/em>. The Serbian opposition is also threatening to the integrity of the President of Serbia by misusing the civilian protests and meetings with Kosovo-Albania politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dfcme.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Narativi-eng2-1030x703.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMontenegro, previously presented in the pieces of research of IFIMES as a factor of peace and stability is now presented as a country in which the virus of corruption and criminal is widely present<\/em> through the DPS and Djukanovic, whose intelligence services are protecting the regime. President Djukanovic, who used to be portrayed as a factor of peace with all ethnic communities, is now playing the card of manipulation, nationalism, and religion in the analyses of IFIMES, and as a former participant in war crimes threatens to the image of NATO<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBesides the change of attitudes of IFIMES towards Montenegro and Serbia, during the observation period, the constant of a positive rating of Zoran Zaev, leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) and former Prime Minister of North Macedonia is noticeable. When Zaev came to power, this country became a bright spot in the region<\/em>, was stated in many pieces of research. Affirming the politics of Zaev continued in the period from July 2017 to July 2019 when Becirovic, together with the other director of IFIMES, Aljaf Bakhtyar became<\/span><\/strong><\/a> an advisor in the Government of Zoran Zaev.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe credibility of the IFIMES under the microscope<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nStjepan Mesic, former President of the Republic of Croatia and Honorable President of IFIMES and Budimir Loncar, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and President of IFIMES Advisory Board distanced<\/span><\/strong><\/a> themselves from the recently published pieces of research of that Institute, by the mutual press release. The Slovenian media wrote many times on the affairs in relation to the financing of the Institute and its work. The case of Kopar municipality and six ordered pieces of research stands out.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBetween 2011 and 2016, the municipality of Kopar bought six pieces of research from IFIMES for EUR 69,132 on the possibility of economic cooperation with the Balkan and Middle East countries, migrants, and Albanian families in that municipality. Instead of detailed analysis, the research provided general information on the wanted topics. A detailed analysis <\/span><\/strong><\/a>of the Slovenian portal Pod \u010crto<\/em> demonstrated that two out of six pieces of research were completely plagiarized, while the two of them contain the parts taken from other sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides the negative narrative about Montenegro and its President, favoring the Serbian President and Serbia is evident, and they have been portrayed as victims of the intelligence services\u2019 activities in the region. The research Serbia 2020: Serbia \u2013 scene of confrontation of intelligence services? (published on May 15) suggests that cooperation Podgorica-Zagreb-Pristina is directed against Aleksandar Vucic without providing any proof for the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Analyzing IFIMES\u2019 pieces of research, published from 2016 until 2020, a set of inconsistencies has been seen. The differences are visible in the tone and shift in writing about specific countries and actors. The changes happened after the meeting<\/span><\/strong><\/a> between President Aleksandar Vucic and IFIMES\u2019 director Zijad Becirovic (on February 12, 2020), even though there was no significant political or social events in the preceding year that would support such a shift.<\/p>\n\n\n Before the meeting in question, pieces of research had mostly been criticizing the politics of Aleksandar Vucic, calling it a successor of Milosevic and Seselj, and his party right-wing, conservative, and in many aspects nationalistic<\/em>. Vucic was portrayed as a factor of instability in the region, whose destructive politics is based on media control, creating of crisis in the regional countries, schizophrenic foreign policy and inability to face the past. Both <\/em>Vucic and Dacic<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> have been constantly creating problems and crisis to appear as problem-solvers and solution-makers, thus ensuring themselves a status of regional leaders. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, President of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic is presented as a leader who is establishing harmonic relations with all ethnic communities and whose country became a prominent factor of stability<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in the region, with one of the best macroeconomic indicators in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n In the research<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/span>Current events in the region 2019: Who wants to destabilize Serbia?<\/em><\/strong> published on June 18, 2019, after the meeting of Vucic and Becirovic, the tone of writing is changed and the narratives opposite to the previous analyses of IFIMES are increasingly noticeable. Vucic is presented as a factor of peace and stability in the Balkans and his current position is the most difficult. Even though he has been criticized for media control, now he is the target of the financed media network<\/em>. The Serbian opposition is also threatening to the integrity of the President of Serbia by misusing the civilian protests and meetings with Kosovo-Albania politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Montenegro, previously presented in the pieces of research of IFIMES as a factor of peace and stability is now presented as a country in which the virus of corruption and criminal is widely present<\/em> through the DPS and Djukanovic, whose intelligence services are protecting the regime. President Djukanovic, who used to be portrayed as a factor of peace with all ethnic communities, is now playing the card of manipulation, nationalism, and religion in the analyses of IFIMES, and as a former participant in war crimes threatens to the image of NATO<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Besides the change of attitudes of IFIMES towards Montenegro and Serbia, during the observation period, the constant of a positive rating of Zoran Zaev, leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) and former Prime Minister of North Macedonia is noticeable. When Zaev came to power, this country became a bright spot in the region<\/em>, was stated in many pieces of research. Affirming the politics of Zaev continued in the period from July 2017 to July 2019 when Becirovic, together with the other director of IFIMES, Aljaf Bakhtyar became<\/span><\/strong><\/a> an advisor in the Government of Zoran Zaev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The credibility of the IFIMES under the microscope<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stjepan Mesic, former President of the Republic of Croatia and Honorable President of IFIMES and Budimir Loncar, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and President of IFIMES Advisory Board distanced<\/span><\/strong><\/a> themselves from the recently published pieces of research of that Institute, by the mutual press release. The Slovenian media wrote many times on the affairs in relation to the financing of the Institute and its work. The case of Kopar municipality and six ordered pieces of research stands out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between 2011 and 2016, the municipality of Kopar bought six pieces of research from IFIMES for EUR 69,132 on the possibility of economic cooperation with the Balkan and Middle East countries, migrants, and Albanian families in that municipality. Instead of detailed analysis, the research provided general information on the wanted topics. A detailed analysis <\/span><\/strong><\/a>of the Slovenian portal Pod \u010crto<\/em> demonstrated that two out of six pieces of research were completely plagiarized, while the two of them contain the parts taken from other sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\nVucic \u2013 a factor of instability, Djukanovic \u2013 a leader<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nChange of tone \u2013 <\/span>roles reversed <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n
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