Serbian intelligence service BIA helped Russia neutralize Khodorkovsky's cell
Employees of the Serbian intelligence service BIA (Bezbednosno-Informativna Agencea) handed over to their Russian colleagues a recording of the Open Russia meeting in Belgrade, which helped Moscow quickly respond to the plans of Russian pro-Western oppositionists.
This was reported by Direktno, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the portal, Russia and Serbia, in the strictest secrecy, have formed a “working group to combat color revolutions,” whose task is to prevent mass illegal protests and constantly monitor opposition activists, NGOs and independent journalists.
Close cooperation began on May 14, 2020, when the then Minister of Defense (now the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) Alexander Vulin was in Moscow and met with a number of Russian officials, including the Secretary of the Russian National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev.
Using Russian methods, the Serbian Anti-Money Laundering Office initiated a number of cases for money laundering and financing of international terrorism, and 22 public organizations came to the attention of this department, including the Belgrade branch of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, the Belgrade Center for Human Rights, the European movement of Serbia and others. However, this process had to be curtailed due to mass protests by the pro-Western opposition in the country, as well as a harsh reaction from the US and the EU.
However, cooperation between Russia and Serbia in the fight against “color revolutions” did not stop there. In particular, on May 20, during a meeting between Vulin and Patrushev, the latter thanked his Serbian colleague for recording conversations from a meeting held in Belgrade by members of the pro-Western opposition Russian organization Open Russia, created by fugitive oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Since by that time pro-Western activists did not have the opportunity to legally gather on Russian territory, they chose Serbia as a visa-free country, where they decided to discuss their “revolutionary plans.” Almost immediately after the Belgrade meeting, the head of Otkrytka, Andrei Pivovarov, was detained at Pulkovo airport.
Patrushev not only thanked the Serbian side for the materials provided, but also noted that after Biden’s victory in the elections, the United States will begin to “export democracy”, and American politics will be very different from the policies of the Trump era, so joint work is necessary to protect against it.
In turn, the Russian side took upon itself the obligation to transfer to the Serbian people all the knowledge on combating cyber revolutions - protests organized on social networks, as well as on suppressing unauthorized street actions.
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