Dragana Trifkovic

Versions of names: Драгана Трифковић, Драгана Трифкович, Dragana Trifković

Serbia

Political activity

Dragana Trifkovic is a Serbian journalist, politician, and director of the Center for Geostrategic Studies. She is the head of the Belgrade Centre of Strategic Research and a regular commentator for the Russian state-controlled media. 2016 she was expelled from the Democratic Party of Serbia. Dragana Trifkovic was making regular reportages from the war in Donbas from 2014 to 2016. She was one of the observers of the so-called parliamentary elections in the DNR in November 2014. In October 2015, she illegally visited Crimea as part of a delegation from Serbia that featured politicians from the ultranationalist Serbian Movement Dveri and national-conservative Democratic Party of Serbia. After August 2020, she left the Dveri movement and reactivated the work of the People's Movement.

Missions

Individual observers at the 2018 Russian presidential election in annexed Crimea

Political affiliation at time of mission: identified

Party’s name: Српски покрет Двери / The Serbian Movement Dveri

Official function at time of mission: Institutional affiliation to Institutional affiliation to the Center for Geostrategic Studies

Official function: Institutional affiliation to Institutional affiliation to the Belgrade Centre of Strategic Research

Quotes regarding this election

The general impression is that the elections occurred in a good atmosphere and were conducted in a highly transparent manner. At any moment, anyone could follow the course of the elections through video surveillance, as well as the process of counting votes after the closure of polling stations.

Source link & date: https://sputniknews.com/russia-elections-2018/201803191062858895-russia-presidential-election-dragana-trifkovic (2018-03-19)

AFRIC observers at the 2018 Zimbabwean general elections

Political affiliation at time of mission: identified

Party’s name: Српски покрет Двери / The Serbian Movement Dveri

Official function at time of mission: Institutional affiliation to the Center for Geostrategic Studies

Official function: Institutional affiliation to the Belgrade Centre of Strategic Research

Individual Observers at the 2022 pseudo-referendum for the formal annexation of occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia to Russia

Political affiliation at time of mission: identified

Party’s name: People's Movement

Official function at time of mission: Ordinary party member

Quotes regarding this election

They took place. They passed in compliance with democratic procedures, unlike Kosovo, where a referendum was expected but did not happen. Or in contrast to the unification of the two Germanys, where a referendum was not even planned. And this is not just my opinion - the conclusion of 100 observers from 40 countries who worked in Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye. [Translated from Russian]

Source link & date: https://russkiymir.ru/publications/305732/ (2023-09-18)

Corresponding elections

Presidential Election Russia Crimea 2018

Classification: illegitimate

The overwhelming majority of the world’s nations does not recognise Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2014, while international institutions such as the OSCE ODIHR considered Russian elections held in Crimea as illegitimate and did not send international election observers there. In their turn, Ukrainian authorities warned that any participation in the electoral process in Crimea would be illegal.

Presidential Election Zimbabwe 2018

Classification: legitimate

On 30 July 2018, Zimbabwe held general elections to elect the president and members of both houses of parliament. For the first time since 2002, Western institutions sent several missions to monitor the elections in Zimbabwe following the coup d’état in 2017.

Referendum Election Ukraine Occupied territories 2022

Classification: illegitimate

From 23 to 27 September 2022, the Russian forces organised a sham election process - pseudo-referendum as a pretext for the formal annexation of the regions of occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson by Russia. The annexation of the four regions was announced on 30 September 2022.