{"id":"SIG-SRB-046","country":"Serbia","excerpt":"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.","date_text":"03/12/2021","actor_text":"Aleksandar Vulin","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-009","incident_id":"SRB-046","observation":{"target":"Civil society sector broadly; protest movements","case_id":"SRB-046","country":"Serbia","signal_id":"SIG-SRB-046","harm_track":"Both","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-009","source_type":"Official/Regulatory","tactic_code":"Narrative Laundering into Procedure (bilateral security mechanism)","target_type":"Sector","enabler_type":"Security/Intelligence Framework","trigger_type":"TR-05: Foreign Authority Signal","actor_primary":"Aleksandar Vulin","campaign_phase":"Phase 1: Authorization","enabler_status":"Active","event_date_raw":"03/12/2021","channel_primary":"Official/Regulatory","date_confidence":"exact","campaigns_served":"SRB-CAMP-003; SRB-CAMP-006; SRB-CAMP-007; SRB-CAMP-009","confidence_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 | 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.","escalation_stage":"1","actor_type_primary":"Senior Official","source_text_excerpt":"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.","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative + Social Trust Erosion","secondary_source_url":"","event_date_normalized":"2021-12-03","primary_narrative_code":"NF-06","primary_narrative_label":"Destabilization Agent","secondary_narrative_code":"NF-01","institutional_consequence":"Legislation introduced; Financial surveillance","secondary_narrative_label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence"},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Official/Regulatory","target_text":"Civil society sector broadly; protest movements","date_confidence":"exact","normalized_date":"2021-12-03","confidence_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 | 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.","secondary_source_url":""}