The former director of the Serbian Intelligence Agency (BIA), Aleksandar Vulin, has been decorated by the director of the Russian Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, for what has been described as \u201cexceptional professionalism and contribution to cooperation between Serbian and Russian services\u201d.<\/p>\n
Aleksandar Vulin, who was the director of the Serbian Security and Information Agency known as BIA until November of last year, leads the Serbian party Socialist Movement and has been a partner in the governing coalition led by Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n
In early November of last year, he resigned, four months after being sanctioned by the United States for involvement in corrupt and destabilizing activities that undermine the rule of law in the Western Balkans and for aiding Moscow in malicious activities and connections to an arms dealer and a drug trafficking network.<\/p>\n
After his resignation, he was appointed a senator in the Republic of Serbia by the president of that entity in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik.<\/p>\n
There was no comment from Serbian authorities on his decoration by Moscow, but the Free Citizens\u2019 Movement, a political organization in Serbia, said that with the decoration, \u201cthe suspicion that the so-called military neutrality is in fact just a cover for Russia\u2019s soft influence in these regions has ended\u201d.<\/p>\n
The official of this movement, Aris Movsesijan, said that Serbia should distance itself from \u201cVulin\u2019s decoration\u201d if it \u201ccontinues its path towards the European Union and creates its foreign policy in that direction\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nSrbija da se ogradi od ordena kojim je Vulin nagra\u0111en od FSB!<\/p>\n
Aris Movsesijan iz Pokreta slobodnih gra\u0111ana reagovao je na vest da je direktor FSB-a Aleksandar Bortnikov odlikovao Aleksandra Vulina: \u201cTo je odli\u010dna vest. Time je stavljena ta\u010dka na sumnju da je takozvana \u201evojna\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/d9svJlyYjj<\/a><\/p>\n
— Slobodni gra\u0111ani (@pokretslobodnih) January 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n