BIRN: Serbian website channels Kremlin, AfD talking points

Two years earlier, Russia had significantly expanded the scope of its own ‘foreign agents’ law, originally adopted in 2012, to the degree that, according to Human Rights Watch, “almost any person or entity, regardless of nationality or location, who engages in civic activism or even expresses opinions about Russian policies or officials’ conduct could be designated a foreign agent, so long as the authorities claim they are under ‘foreign influence’”.