Vulin handed over secret recordings of Russian oppositionists to Moscow, after which they were arrested

In May of this year, Minister of Police Aleksandar Vulin met with the Secretary of National Security of Russia, Nikolay Patrushev, to whom he handed over the recordings of the Security Information Agency (BIA) with information about the meeting of Russian opposition leaders in Belgrade, Nova.rs learns.

Earlier, information was published that Russia and Serbia secretly formed a joint working group to fight against color revolutions, whose task is to suppress mass demonstrations of citizens. In addition, a joint body of Serbian and Russian authorities should supervise opposition leaders, independent media and civil sector organizations.

Doubts that there is a joint coordination of the authorities in Russia and Serbia regarding the suppression of mass demonstrations and that experiences are exchanged on this topic, were further fueled after the meeting that Vulin had with the Patrushes ahead of the last protest on Saturday.

That "colored revolutions" were the topic of their talks could be read in the official announcement of the Ministry of the Interior after Vulin's recent visit to Moscow.

In it, among other things, it was written that at their meeting "it was pointed out that 'colored revolutions' have become a traditional policy instrument of certain power centers and countries that aim to undermine statehood and lose sovereignty under the pretext of democratization."

It was also stated that "free countries must resist it".

According to some information, the mentioned Working Group for the fight against the color revolution existed in the middle of last year, when the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering made a list of well-known journalists, non-governmental organizations and citizens' associations and asked the banks for insight into all their transactions from January 1, 2019. . years.

In May, a meeting that resulted in the arrest of opposition members

At the meeting that Vulin and Patrushev held at the end of May, the Minister of Police, as Nova.rs has learned, handed over to an official from Moscow recordings of a meeting of Russian opposition members in Belgrade, which were made by the BIA, and on which are recordings of the conversations of opposition members Andrej Pivovarov and Vladimir Kara- Murza.

Shortly after the meeting, news broke that Pivovarov had been arrested by being taken off a plane in St. Petersburg and now faces up to six years in prison for "participating in the work of an undesirable organization."

The information about Pivovarov's arrest was published by Kara-Murza, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian colleague Alexander Lukashenko are "literally twins".

Kara-Murza spoke out because of the information that the Minister of Police Vulin provided Patrushev with recordings of his conversations with Pivovarov, saying that the willingness of the Serbian authorities to "stand on its last legs before a big war from the Kremlin" is shocking.

Recently, the Serbian minister visited Moscow again. After the meeting, Vulin and Patrushev announced the creation of a joint "working group for the fight against color revolutions", whose tasks will be to prevent demonstrations and constantly monitor opposition activists, non-governmental organizations and independent journalists.

"The willingness of the current Serbian authorities to stand on their last legs in front of their big brother from the Kremlin is touching. "Now it is clear what kind of 'security cooperation' Patrushev and Vulin talked about at the meeting in mid-May, where the transcripts of the eavesdropped conversations were transferred," he wrote in his author's text.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, critic of the Kremlin and former oil tycoon, also spoke on this occasion.

"Serbian secret police, it turns out, are recording the conversations of Russian activists and passing them on to the FSB (Federal Security Service, prim.aut). History doesn't teach, but The Hague waits," he wrote on Twitter.

And while the entire democratic public in Russia is outraged by the knowledge that the Serbian government encourages Russian oppositionists in order to maintain the favor of Moscow, the Minister of Police Alexander Vulin does not make a statement on this occasion.