Dejan Šoškić (b. 1967) is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. He also served as the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia from 2010 to 2012 and was a member of the Board of Directors of Bank of China, Serbia, until 2021. In recent years, he has frequently appeared in Serbian “opposition” media, criticizing the government’s fiscal and monetary policies. He even became a member of the Subcommittee for Economic-Financial Issues related to the 2024 collapse of the Novi Sad railway station canopy.
However, he has also been involved in spreading disinformation regarding the Jadar lithium-boron project 1, which has become a major tool for antagonizing Serbian citizens against EU membership and, more broadly, against multinational corporations. Moreover, in recent years, he has notably promoted propaganda supportive of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Below are just a few examples:
In an interview given on July 17, 2025, to Rubikon, an anti-Western, pro-Serbian national-revisionist YouTube channel, Dejan Šoškić repeated several of his key pro-Russian talking points. He claimed that, despite Western sanctions, Russia remains “the fourth-largest world economy by Purchasing Power Parity”; that German companies are “seriously considering relocating to Russia due to better economic opportunities”; that the BRICS countries may soon become a serious competitor to the West; that “deepening French-German cooperation may well push Anglo-Saxon influence out of Europe” while strengthening ties with Russia and China; that countries should gradually stop purchasing U.S. federal government treasuries because such purchases “fund the U.S. war effort around the globe”; and that he hopes Europe will increase its cooperation with China and Russia at the expense of the United States:
In an interview given to the Russian state-owned media outlet RT on November 23, 2023, he argued that Western sanctions against Russia would ultimately fail and only harm the European economy, while reiterating a well-known piece of pro-Russian propaganda — that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was partly provoked by “NATO’s eastward expansion.”
