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“At least 14 students, activists, and opposition politicians in Serbia were targeted with advanced spyware beginning in 2026, in the country’s largest documented spyware-surveillance wave.”

The evidence supports the reported surveillance wave involving at least 14 Serbian students, activists, and opposition politicians. Forensic researchers identified advanced tools including Pegasus and NoviSpy, and described the episode as Serbia’s largest documented spyware wave. One infection trace dates to December 2025, making the stated 2026 start a minor simplification.

“The dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia resulted in the creation of new states including Serbia, Slovenia, and North Macedonia.”

The claim is broadly accurate, but it compresses an important sequence. Slovenia and North Macedonia became independent states directly from Yugoslavia’s breakup in 1991, while Serbia reached separate independence later, in 2006, after first existing within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and then Serbia and Montenegro. The overall claim is right about the breakup producing these successor states, but Serbia’s path was less direct.

“Right-wing and ethno-nationalist movements have grown in Serbia and parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in recent years.”

Multiple recent, credible reports document a revival and heightened visibility of far-right and ethnic-nationalist groups in Serbia and in Republika Srpska, indicating a genuine upward trend since roughly 2023. While some sources merely note the continued presence of nationalism and hard data on membership or votes are limited, the weight of evidence supports an overall rise, not just persistence. The growth is clearer in Serbia and RS than in other parts of Bosnia.