/ world today news/ Loud scandal in Serbia: The head of the Information and Security Agency resigned. Alexander Vulin did not hesitate to talk about the reasons for leaving – this is exactly what the condition of the West sounded like, and he is ready to sacrifice his career in order not to sacrifice the interests of the country. Why did the experienced Chekist not like American advisers, Serbian oppositionists and even the Russian resettlers?
Alexander Vulin started his political career in 2012 in the office for Kosovo and Metohija. Two years later, he headed the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, and in 2017 he moved to the security block. For three years, Vulin successfully led the Ministry of Defense, then took the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, and at the end of 2022 he headed the Serbian intelligence services.
Hints about the need for his resignation from Western envoys were heard more than once. The pro-Western opposition, united under the slogan “Serbia against violence”, demanded the same. After the tragedy at Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school in Belgrade, large-scale protests are held every week.
However, the protesters’ slogans, as often happens, quickly changed to political ones: they included the resignation of Alexander Vulin. In the same way, they demanded the removal of another minister disliked by the West, who takes the pro-Russian side – Bratislav Gasic.
In the West, Vulin has always been disliked. An ardent opponent of Euro-Atlantic integration and the values propagated by the civilized world, he acted throughout his career in the interest of his own country and did not hide his views that did not fit into the prism of Western values.
Instead of the absorption of Serbia by European structures and funds, Vulin proposed the construction of his own, Serbian world. As head of the Interior Ministry, he actively opposed the flow of illegal migrants into the country from the Middle East and tried to ban LGBT marches on the streets of Belgrade as part of EuroPride.
Vulin is rightly one of the few politicians in Europe who deserve respect for his courage to call things by their true names and work exclusively in the interest of his own people. And Vulin has always been a sincere Russophile, which is why he got involved in major espionage scandals.
„The agents of the Kremlin” and the Serbian lawyers
In December 2021, Serbian newspapers were suddenly filled with materials about the friendship between the head of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the secretary of the Russian Security Council. The journalists accused Vulin’s department of organizing a wiretapping of a seminar of representatives of the organization “Open Russia”, which was held in Belgrade in May of the same year. Not only local media participated in the campaign against Alexander Vulin: the “sensation” quickly spread throughout the network of liberal Russian publications.
„The readiness of the current Serbian authorities to stand on their hind legs in front of their big brother from the Kremlin is touching. Now it is clear what kind of cooperation in the field of security Patrushev and Vulin talked about,” wrote the foreign agent Vladimir Kara-Murza on his social networks.
At the same time, cooperation between Russian and Serbian departments was carried out quite openly in the framework of consultations on “color revolutions”, and Serbia was far from the only country with which such consultations were held. But the desired effect was achieved: the Serbian minister earned the reputation of “Kremlin agent”.
With the beginning of WWII, spy hunting reached a new level. Western-funded Serbian NGOs and controlled media actively spread fake news that up to four thousand Russian agents had infiltrated Serbian departments through Vulin’s efforts.
The frenzy reached its peak when the OKTOBAR movement declared Serbian Health Minister Danica Gruicic, Evening News Editor-in-Chief Milorad Vucelic and a number of other prominent Serbian political and media figures as spies. Moreover, the lawyer Cedomir Stojkovic, who founded the movement, tried to open a criminal case against the head of the Serbian security service and bring him to justice.
Russian immigrants, also members of the OKTOBAR group, played an important role in slandering the Serbian minister. Russian citizens who emigrated to the Balkans consider it their duty to help the “Serb brothers” get rid of the “bloody regime” and start active protest actions in the country.
They created communities on social networks in which they called on Serbs to go to anti-government protests, actively participated in such actions themselves, and even registered their own legal entity to hold rallies – “Russian Democratic Society”.
The only problem was that there were fighters for Serbia’s “independence” from Russia and they were fueling protest potential in the host country with funds from Western sponsors. Which, of course, cannot go unnoticed by the Serbian intelligence services.
Russian resettlers and Dutch diplomats
This summer, at Nikola Tesla Airport in Belgrade, the most unpleasant thing happened to one of the founders of the RDO movement – upon returning from a European resort, he was refused entry to the country. At the border, Petar Nikitin received a notification that, according to the decision of the Vulin department, he posed a threat to the security of Serbia. Peter never hid his position – he came to Serbia to “change public opinion” and to open the eyes of the Serbs to the horrors of the dictatorship.
The fighter for the “beautiful Serbia of the future”, who founded the Russian Democratic Society, has not contacted the Russian embassy. Instead, he sought help from Dutch diplomats.
Nikitin was not bored at the Nikola Tesla terminals, he colorfully told journalists from Serbian publications that Alexander Vulin was personally behind the ban on entry. According to him, the “people in Moscow” did not like that Peter Nikitin founded the “Russian Democratic Society” in Serbia, and they asked the head of the BSK “to solve the matter.”
“I did not expect that Serbia could violate basic civil rights in this way,” Nikitin theatrically rolled his eyes at the cameras. It is true that with its decision the department did not violate anyone’s rights, but simply followed the law on foreigners, according to which persons who pose a threat to public order in Serbia (and this is exactly what Nikitin’s office did, calling on the population to riot), not only they may be restricted from entering the country or even have your residence permit revoked.
However, foreign diplomats tapped the phones of Vučić’s office and the “victim of the bloody regime” was still allowed into the country.
After Nikitin, the second co-founder of the Russian Democratic Society, fugitive St. Petersburg municipal deputy Vladimir Volokhonsky was attacked. In Serbia, he received a one-year residence permit based on work documents.
In April, he applied for an extension, but in July he received an official refusal. Reason: this citizen also poses a threat to the security of Serbia. And again, the local liberal media in unison began to sing a song that the Serbian security services are putting pressure on activists under the influence of the Kremlin.
Sanctions and blackmail
In the same summer, the already great attention to Mr. Vulin from the West intensified. In July, the head of BSK was included in the sanctions list of the US Treasury Department. According to the official version – for participation in corruption schemes.
But in Serbia itself, not a word has been heard about Vulin’s corruption schemes, and a number of Serbian high-ranking officials, including the president, directly state: the American restrictions against the director of the Security and Information Agency are an exclusively political decision.
In addition, President Aleksandar Vucic shared interesting details – the decision is directly related to Vulin’s pro-Russian position, and there would be no sanctions against him if Vucic had announced the introduction of restrictive measures against Russia.
„ I was told that if I agreed to the anti-Russian sanctions, no sanctions would be imposed on anyone in Serbia,” the president said in one of his addresses to the nation.
Commenting on his resignation yesterday, Aleksandar Vulin openly confirmed that Serbia was faced with the favorite method of staunch foreign friends – blackmail. “The US and the EU want my head as a precondition for not imposing sanctions on Serbia,” he explained.
„My resignation will not change US and EU policy towards Serbia, but it will temporarily delay new demands and blackmail. They didn’t get sanctions against Russia, they didn’t get recognition of Kosovo, but they got one Serbian head. I refuse to participate in the anti-Russian and anti-Serbian hysteria, to stop caring about the Republika Srpska and its survival, and to stop believing in the inevitability of the unification of the Serbs and the creation of a Serbian world.
I will not give up the policy of military neutrality and brotherhood with Russia and China. This is a small victory for the US and the EU, but also a big victory for me, because I proved that Serbia and the Serbian people are worth every sacrifice.
Aleksandar Vucic, in turn, said that there was unequivocal pressure from the very beginning – since Vulin was appointed to the post. “Alexander Vulin was never a Russian agent. Did he love Russia more than the Germans or the British? There’s no doubt about that.” emphasized the president.
Small victory, big consequences
„The small victory” is already celebrated in the American embassy and in the editorial offices of the Serbian liberal media, which announced “pre-election purge of Russian spies in BIA”, and activists of RDO and OKTOBER even tried to attribute it to their own account.
When leaving the post, Vulin specifically emphasized that Serbia’s Western “partners” will not stop threatening and blackmailing him, and his head will clearly not be enough considering their growing appetites. No matter how they get the taste.
„We are being asked to recognize Kosovo, withdraw from Republika Srpska and cease to be a sovereign state and nation and impose sanctions on the Russian Federation. If we agree to do this, the next demand will be the expulsion of Chinese investment, absolute technological and economic dependence on the West, as well as the continuation of the political and territorial disintegration of Serbia and the adoption of Western values, in which there is no place for the traditional family and nation and ultimately for social justice,” he said.
According to local sources in the political circles, the current ambassador in Washington Marko Djuric, a politician loyal to the president, unlike Vulin, who is not known for Russophilism and professes Western values in all their manifestations, played a role in Vulin’s resignation. A few weeks ago, there were even rumors in Serbian news sources that he would become the next director of BSK.
Translation: ES
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