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The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Serbia (BIRN) said in a report released on March 11 that Eagle Eye Explore, an unregistered website with no masthead that is attempting to build international influence, published pro-Russian narratives and interviews with the European far right and advocated the adoption of a Law on agents of foreign interests in Serbia, while its digital footprint followed patterns typical of Kremlin-affiliated media operations.
In a little over a year and a half of operation, the portal has run hundreds of texts spreading disinformation, anti-liberal and pro-Russian narratives and promoting the far right, most often the Alternative for Germany party, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network said in an investigative piece, noting that the party has been described in German as being "on the Kremlin's leash," which it denies.
Though Serbian legislation on public information requires information about the publisher and editors of a media outlet to be included in the masthead, this website includes no such data, the article notes, adding that lack of information on the publisher, that is, ownership and editors, is one of the hallmarks of media outlets run by Moscow across Europe.
The European Commission had warned of Moscow's influence on media in the Balkans in 2023, when Brussels noted that the Kremlin's narrative in Serbia was especially effective compared to other countries in the region, and that its propagation involved not just foreign actors, but also active promotion by certain local media outlets and major political organizations.
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