{"id":"SRB-086","notes":"FIRST TC-47 case in database — Dismantlement through Professional Destruction. TC-47 created this session. The Kleut mechanism is precise: Senate refusal to elect to full professorship is the administrative instrument — technically a procedural decision, in practice politically driven termination. This deniability (no formal firing, just non-election) is characteristic of TC-47 — it leaves no visible state fingerprint while achieving the elimination. Sector-wide pattern documented but scale not fully quantified — number of dismissals across Serbian schools and universities not yet aggregated. Monitor for future data. Paired with SRB-085 (campus crackdowns) as dual institutional suppression mechanism: physical removal from buildings (TC-39) + professional removal from posts (TC-47).","country":"Serbia","sources":[{"url":null,"citation":"BIRN / Katarina Baletic, January 22, 2026 — 'Serbian Police Intervention at University Alarms Academic Community' (https://balkaninsight.com/2026/01/22/serbian-police-intervention-at-university-alarms-academic-community/)"}],"summary":"Serbian authorities execute a systematic campaign of professional dismissal targeting academics, teachers, and public sector workers who publicly supported the student protest movement. NAMED CASE — PROFESSOR JELENA KLEUT: Kleut, a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, publicly supported the student-led anti-government protests. The University Senate subsequently refused to elect her to the position of full professor — the mechanism used to effectively end her academic career. Her dismissal triggered an internal blockade of the Faculty of Philosophy by students and professors (January 21, 2026), which was then forcibly dispersed by police called by Dean Alanovic (see SRB-085). PATTERN — STATE UNIVERSITY OF NOVI PAZAR: Multiple professors dismissed in the same period. PATTERN — SECTOR-WIDE: Teachers and professors across primary and secondary schools losing positions. Professor Smiljana Milinkov (Faculty of Philosophy): 'Jelena Kleut is not the first, and will not be the last. Teachers and professors have been losing their jobs in primary and secondary schools in recent months as well. The same is happening to colleagues and professors at other faculties.' Academic Plenum explicitly names the systemic logic: 'With the dismissal of Professor Kleut, and before that a large number of professors from the State University in Novi Pazar, the government has started with the expulsion of professors from their jobs.' Milinkov: 'This is clearly a mechanism that has existed before and will continue — a practice of removing people who are considered politically unsuitable.'","tactics":[{"code":"TC-47","role":"primary","label":"Dismantlement through Professional Destruction","needs_review":false},{"code":"TC-20","role":"secondary","label":"Security Apparatus Enforcement","needs_review":false}],"version":1,"channels":["Official/Regulatory"],"entities":[{"id":997,"name":"University of Novi Sad Senate (mechanism — refusal to elect Kleut to full professorship); State University of Novi Pazar administration (multiple professor dismissals); Serbian Ministry of Education / school administrations (teacher dismissals); Serbian government / SNS (political authorization of professional purge)","role":"actor","entity_type":"Government Official"},{"id":998,"name":"Named: Professor Jelena Kleut (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad) — dismissed after University Senate refuses full professorship following public protest support. Pattern: multiple professors at State University of Novi Pazar; teachers and professors across Serbian primary and secondary schools. Sector-wide: public sector and academic workers who publicly supported student protest movement.","role":"target","entity_type":"Individual Organization"}],"date_text":"01/2026","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":4,"harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","narratives":[{"code":"NF-09","role":"primary","label":"Political Interference","needs_review":false}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":[],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","occurred_on":"2026-01-01","campaign_ids":["SRB-CAMP-014"],"enabler_type":"","response_ids":[],"trigger_type":"TR-02: Civic Mobilization","campaign_phase":"Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization","civic_response":"","date_precision":"month","enabler_status":"","campaigns_served":[],"consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","institutional_consequence":"Kleut's academic career effectively terminated; multiple Novi Pazar professors dismissed; sector-wide chilling effect across academic and public sector — civic engagement carries career cost; institutions hollowed of protest-supporting staff without criminal proceedings; Kleut dismissal directly triggers SRB-085 January 2026 crackdown."}