- country
- Serbia
- date text
- 03/12/2021
- actor text
- Aleksandar Vulin
- campaign id
- 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.
- date confidence
- exact
- 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.
- id
- SIG-SRB-046
- incident id
- SRB-046
- normalized date
- 2021-12-03
- observation
- country
- Serbia
- actor primary
- Aleksandar Vulin
- actor type primary
- Senior Official
- campaign id
- SRB-CAMP-009
- campaign phase
- Phase 1: Authorization
- campaigns served
- SRB-CAMP-003; SRB-CAMP-006; SRB-CAMP-007; SRB-CAMP-009
- case id
- SRB-046
- channel primary
- Official/Regulatory
- 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.
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative + Social Trust Erosion
- date confidence
- exact
- enabler status
- Active
- enabler type
- Security/Intelligence Framework
- escalation stage
- 1
- event date normalized
- 2021-12-03
- event date raw
- 03/12/2021
- harm track
- Both
- institutional consequence
- Legislation introduced; Financial surveillance
- primary narrative code
- NF-06
- primary narrative label
- Destabilization Agent
- secondary narrative code
- NF-01
- secondary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- signal id
- SIG-SRB-046
- 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.
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- tactic code
- Narrative Laundering into Procedure (bilateral security mechanism)
- target
- Civil society sector broadly; protest movements
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-05: Foreign Authority Signal
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- target text
- Civil society sector broadly; protest movements
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