Footage of a meeting of Russian opposition leaders filmed by the Serbian Security Intelligence Service in Belgrade in May was handed over by Serbian Interior Minister Alexander Vulin to Russian National Security Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow on December 8.
Patrushev also serves as Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB in the Soviet Union. His meeting with Vulin took place on May 14. The Serbian daily Danas reported that at the meeting, Patrushev thanked Vulin for the wiretapping of the meeting in Belgrade, which was conducted by members of the Russian opposition. It was difficult for opposition groups to arrange meetings in Russia, so they chose Belgrade as they do not need a visa to enter Serbia.
Shortly afterwards, on June 31, Russian opposition leader Alexander Pivovarov was arrested in Moscow and remains in custody. According to reports, he attended a meeting in Belgrade in early May with another opposition figure, journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who wrote on Twitter about the arrest.
As of December 2021, Vulin had neither confirmed nor denied the link between the alleged surveillance film delivery and the arrest.
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