In the article "Serbs protest government’s NATO deal, call to Russia for help," RT claims that the Serbian people need Russia's help in order to keep NATO out of their affairs. RT claims the protesters said,“The deal with NATO contradicts the will of the Serbian people, and breaks the constitution, as NATO will be able to use our infrastructure, and wander around as they wish,” to claim that this deal is somehow going to allow the west to exploit them. The Prime Minister said "its critics are 'stuck in the 17th century,' and insisting that 'Serbia is maintaining its sovereignty and wants to cooperate both with NATO and with the Russian Federation.'"     

This article is a great example of Russia's state owned media creating an example of their false "responsibility to protect" pattern which is illustrated in Dunn and Bobick's article "The empire strikes back: War without war and occupation without occupation in the Russian sphere of influence" referenced below. By showing a protest in response to a Serbian government deal with NATO, they can influence public opinion into believing that the Serbian people want Russian help and that it is their duty to help them, despite the reality being that Russia is trying to push back EU and NATO influence. It is just another influence of Putin's information warfare. I am unsure what his intentions as to Serbia are, but it probably has a great deal to do with the Balkan intervention during the Clinton administration.


https://www.rt.com/news/333142-serbia-nato-immunity-protest/

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12086/abstract