Photo: AP Photo/Alexander ZemlianichenkoAndrej Pivovarov and Vladimir Kara-Murz were sentenced to several years in prison. It was Kara-Murza who accused Vulin of organizing their wiretapping in Belgrade and of handing over the transcripts to the Kremlin.
Two Russian opposition members are in prison serving multi-year sentences.
The former head of the now defunct Open Russia movement Andrey Pivovarov is serving a four-year sentence, while opposition activist Vladimira Kara-Murzu convicted to as much as 25 years in prison.
In addition to both being critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, they have one more thing in common - the current director of the BIA and former police minister Alexander Vulin.
Kara-Murza is a Russian politician, writer and historian. He is considered one of the most responsible for the adoption of the Magnitsky Law in the USA, Canada, the EU and Great Britain, which includes sanctions for Russian citizens who violate human rights.
It was he who accused Aleksandar Vulin of organizing wiretapping of Russian opposition members in Belgrade.
In an interview with the daily "Nova", he said that Vulin handed over the transcripts of the conversations of Russian oppositionists to the Russian authorities and that he met with the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow, after which the so-called Working Group for the Fight against Color Revolutions was formed.
Vulin in his own style
After these accusations, Vulun, then in his capacity as Minister of Police, addressed the public in his distinctive style.
"Every fool can have his own opinion, just as every spy can present himself as a humanitarian worker or an activist of any kind," the Ministry of the Interior announced at the time.
"I don't know which category the Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza belongs to, but I know that he is a liar who will have to justify his lies in both Serbian and Russian courts, wherever I can bring him to justice with a lawsuit and bring him to justice the truth. Lying that the Minister of Police of Serbia carries any information is dangerous and calculated meanness to anyone, in order to portray Serbia as a non-sovereign country governed by others. The Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Mr. Nikolai Patrushev, with whom I have officially met several times, is a friend of Serbia and a professional who knows that respect for the law and the principle of equality in the relations of our countries is the measure of all things, as well as the way of his and my work," it said. is in the announcement.
First Pivovarov, then Kara-Murza
Andrej Pivovarov was arrested in June 2021, just two days after visiting Belgrade. He was arrested at the airport in Saint Petersburg.
Then, in April 2022, Kara-Murza was also arrested, and according to Russian lawyer Dimitriy Zakhvatov, he is also in prison because of the action that Vulin carried out together with Patrushev.
"Pivovarov was arrested because Vulin took the content of the wiretapped conversations to Nikolai Patrushev. And Vladimir Kara-Murza was mostly arrested for that. In Russia, this is how these things are carried out - if they get enough material to mark you as a traitor, according to their standards, they will start proceedings against you in court. "The formal reason why Kara-Murza was arrested is allegedly a meeting in Arizona where he talked about the war in Ukraine," Zakhvatov said.
Kara-Murza said that Russian citizens were followed and eavesdropped during their stay in Belgrade.
"We gathered in a hotel located in New Belgrade. The gathering lasted a week and we immediately noticed that we were being followed. Whenever we met on the street, someone would be behind us and follow our movements. In restaurants, when we went to lunch, someone would sit next to us and listen to what we were talking about. It was so obvious and absurd. Even when we rented a boat tour on the Danube, another boat followed us the whole time. Although it was even funny to us, now we see that it was done on purpose and that the Serbian services did it so that the Serbian Minister Vulin would prove to be the faithful dog of Putin's secretary Patrushev. All our conversations at the meeting were recorded. Let me say that I hope that Vulin and Patrushev learned something while listening to them," he said in an interview with Nova.
At the trial, he said he only blamed himself for failing to convince enough of his compatriots and politicians in democratic countries of the danger the current Kremlin regime poses to Russia and the world.
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