The pro-government media outlet in Russia, Russia Today, has published an article by the Russian state agency "Ria Novosti" whose headline claims that "the US and NATO are preparing a revolution in Serbia with the help of Kosovo Albanians."
Although the title is constructed in a question form, with a question mark at the end, it is not clarified that this is only the opinion of a Russian researcher and not a credible study.
The entire claim is therefore built solely on the opinion of Russian researcher Aleksandar Bartos, a member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, which is based only on recent developments, but not on any concrete facts.
Publication of this article on RT Balkan:
https://lat.rt.rs/rusija/33680-sad-nato-kosovo-obojena-revolucija-kfor/
Although the article is a product of "Ria Novosti", I was unable to view it, as a result of the ban on Russian state media (here), hibrid.info has treated the one republished by Russia Today in Serbian, which continues to be accessible to the Kosovar audience (see hibrid.info article here).
All content published in this article is based on the opinion of this member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.
So, as can be understood, this Russian researcher bases his entire analysis solely on recent developments in the north and attempts to link them to the NATO air campaign of 1999. Furthermore, he says that this plan also aims to incite war against Serbia.
Authentic excerpts from the RT Balkan article in Serbian:
NATO's SAD currently leads a policy that aims to prepare Kosovar Albanians to organize a colored revolution in Serbia. To je na kraju isprovociralo tumpno pravedan protest srpskog population Kosova i Metohija, a situation u prokraini je dovelo do ivice vojnog conflict
Translated into Albanian:
The US and NATO are currently pursuing a policy aimed at preparing the Kosovo Albanians for a war against Serbia and organizing a color revolution in Serbia. This ultimately provoked a completely justified protest of the Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija and brought the situation in the province to the brink of a military conflict.
The author of this article, in addition to publishing an opinion that does not provide facts, does not provide any additional facts that could support the claim in the title.
In fact, the events that unfolded recently, shortly before the incidents in northern Kosovo, have a completely opposite course to what is claimed through this article.
It was the senior American representatives themselves who opposed the decision to immediately send the newly elected mayors of the municipalities in northern Kosovo.
It was the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who criticized this decision, saying that these actions were taken "contrary to the advice of the United States and Kosovo's European partners" (here).
Even the US State Department, through a response published by the US ambassador to Kosovo, Jeff Hovenier, expressed opposition to the actions of the Kosovo authorities last Friday (here).
Even US Senator Chris Murphy, who visited Kosovo last week, tweeted (here) spoke out against it.
"As a friend of Kosovo, I am taken by surprise and he [Albin Kurti] must stop this provocation immediately."
Meanwhile, the reaction of representatives of KFOR, a NATO military mission, also denies the claim that they are part of such a plan. Through a statement published (here), from this peacekeeping mission spoke out against the developments of last Friday (May 26).
Analyze:
From the facts examined and verified by hibrid.info, it appears that the claim made in the title is not substantiated at all in this article.
All the allusions made by the interviewee (Aleksandar Bartos) are not based on facts, but rather an interpretation of recent developments. However, the interpretation does not seem to be accurate, based on the facts discussed by hibrid.info.
According to the methodology, this article is rated "conspiracy theory".
Reasoning:
"Conspiracy theories" are media reports that disseminate a false or unverifiable description of a phenomenon, event, or person, presenting it as part of or the result of a secret plan ("conspiracy"). A characteristic of these reports is that they present a series of claims, presented as facts, between which cause-effect relationships are established, without providing any credible evidence.