{"id":"SRB-046","notes":"Shifts colour revolution narrative from rhetoric to institutional policy. Joint exercises and intelligence sharing aimed at repressing protests. Precedes and enables SVR public interventions (SRB-040, Sep 2025). Most significant institutional operationalization of foreign agent narrative in database — bilateral state mechanism. | RECLASSIFIED Phase 4 → Phase 1: Vulin-Patrushev Joint Working Group functions as authorization signal — foreign authority (Russia) invoked to legitimize domestic anti-CSO framework. First formal Phase 1 signal in SRB-CAMP-009 arc, preceding APML deployment. | DATE UPDATE: Date confirmed exact: December 3, 2021. Vulin visits Moscow, meets Patrushev, Joint Working Group \"Combating Colour Revolutions\" established. AP photo caption confirms Dec 3. NOTE: earlier May 14 2021 Vulin-Patrushev meeting also documented (Vulin hands surveillance recordings of Russian opposition to Patrushev) — that is a separate event, this case codes the Dec 3 working group establishment. Source: AP December 3 2021; European Western Balkans December 14 2021.","country":"Serbia","sources":[{"url":null,"citation":"BCSP 'Manufactured Threat' Feb 2026 p.10; Radio Slobodna Evropa 15/05/2021"}],"summary":"Minister Vulin and Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev establish formal Joint Working Group for 'Combating Colour Revolutions' — bilateral state mechanism institutionalizing the colour revolution narrative into security cooperation, joint exercises, and intelligence sharing targeting protest movements and civil society.","tactics":[{"code":"TC-17","role":"primary","label":"Narrative-to-Institutional Operationalization","needs_review":false}],"version":1,"channels":["Official/Regulatory"],"entities":[{"id":925,"name":"Aleksandar Vulin; Nikolai Patrushev","role":"actor","entity_type":"Senior Official; Foreign Intelligence Service"},{"id":926,"name":"Civil society sector broadly; protest movements","role":"target","entity_type":"Sector"}],"date_text":"03/12/2021","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":4,"harm_track":"Both","narratives":[{"code":"NF-06","role":"primary","label":"Destabilization Agent","needs_review":false},{"code":"NF-01","role":"secondary","label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","needs_review":false}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":["SIG-SRB-046"],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","occurred_on":"2021-12-03","campaign_ids":["SRB-CAMP-009"],"enabler_type":"Security/Intelligence Framework","response_ids":[],"trigger_type":"TR-05: Foreign Authority Signal","campaign_phase":"Phase 1: Authorization","civic_response":"","date_precision":"day","enabler_status":"Active","campaigns_served":["SRB-CAMP-003","SRB-CAMP-006","SRB-CAMP-007","SRB-CAMP-009"],"consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative + Social Trust Erosion","institutional_consequence":"Legislation introduced; Financial surveillance"}