
The former director of the Serbian Intelligence Agency, Aleksandar Vulin, has been decorated by the director of the Russian Federal Security Service, Aleksandar Bortnikov, for "extraordinary professionalism and contribution to cooperation between the Serbian and Russian services."
Vulin, who was director of the Serbian Security and Information Agency known as BIA until November last year, leads the Serbian Socialist Movement party and has long been a partner in the governing coalition led by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
At the beginning of 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 assisting Moscow in malicious activities and for links with an arms dealer and a drug trafficking ring.
After his resignation, he was appointed a senator in the Republika Srpska by the president of that entity in Bosnia, Milorad Dodik.
There was no comment from Serbian authorities on his decoration by Moscow, but the Movement of Free Citizens, a political organization in Serbia, said the decoration ended suspicions that so-called military neutrality is actually just a cover for soft influence. of Russia in these regions.
The official of this movement, Aris Movsesijan, said that Serbia should distance itself from the "decoration of Vulin" if it "continues its path towards the European Union and creates its foreign policy in that direction".
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