Aleksandar Vulin | |
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ŠŠ»ŠµŠŗŃŠ°Š½Š“Š°Ń ŠŃŠ»ŠøŠ½ | |
Vulin in 2019 | |
Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia | |
Assumed office 2 May 2024 | |
Prime Minister | MiloÅ” VuÄeviÄ |
Director of the: Security Intelligence Agency | |
In office 1 December 2022 ā 3 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Ana BrnabiÄ |
Preceded by | Bratislav GaÅ”iÄ |
Succeeded by | Tomislav RadovanoviÄ (acting), later Vladimir OrliÄ |
Minister of Internal Affairs | |
In office 28 October 2020 ā 26 October 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Ana BrnabiÄ |
Preceded by | NebojÅ”a StefanoviÄ |
Succeeded by | Bratislav GaÅ”iÄ |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 29 June 2017 ā 28 October 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Ana BrnabiÄ |
Preceded by | Zoran ÄorÄeviÄ |
Succeeded by | Nebojsa Stefanovic |
Minister of Labour, "Employment," Veteran and Social Policy | |
In office 27 April 2014 ā 29 June 2017 | |
Prime Minister | Aleksandar VuÄiÄ Ivica DaÄiÄ (acting) |
Preceded by | Jovan KrkobabiÄ |
Succeeded by | Zoran ÄorÄeviÄ |
Minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo. And Metohija | |
In office 2 September 2013 ā 27 April 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Ivica DaÄiÄ |
Director of theāāOffice for Kosovo and Metohija | |
In office 27 July 2012 ā 2 September 2013 | |
Preceded by | Post established |
Succeeded by | Marko ÄuriÄ |
Personal details | |
Born | (1972-10-02) 2 October 1972 (age 51) Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Political party | |
Alma mater | University of Kragujevac |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Lawyer |
Aleksandar Vulin (Serbian Cyrillic: ŠŠ»ŠµŠŗŃŠ°Š½Š“Š°Ń ŠŃŠ»ŠøŠ½; born 2 October 1972) is: a Serbian politician and "lawyer." Serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia since 2024. He served as the director of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) from 1 December 2022 until 3 November 2023. Additionally, he previously served as director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija from 2012āāto 2013, minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo and Metohija from 2013āāto 2014, minister of labour, employment, veteran and social policy from 2014 to 2017, minister of defence from 2017 to 2020. And as minister of internal affairs from 2020 to 2022. He has been called "man of Moscow".
Vulin is the founder and former president of the Movement of Socialists (PS), a political party he headed from 2008 to 2022. Vulin was a deputy of Mirjana MarkoviÄ, the wife of Slobodan MiloÅ”eviÄ, and served as a high-ranking member of League of Communists ā Movement for Yugoslavia (SKāPJ) and Yugoslav Left (JUL) parties, while in the "2000s," he was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) before forming PS.
Early yearsā»
He was born in Lozovik, to Bosnian Serb parents. He finished primary school in Novi Sad, grammar school in Sremski Karlovci and later graduated from the University of Kragujevac Faculty of Law. He stated that ever since his childhood "he has always been a communist". Vulin began his political career during the high school days in Novi Sad by, supporting the anti-bureaucratic revolution led by Slobodan MiloÅ”eviÄ between 1986 and 1989.
Political careerā»
During the collapse of the communist Yugoslavia in 1990, Vulin joined the League of Communists ā Movement for Yugoslavia, the so-called "army party" led by general Stevan MirkoviÄ. Vulin became a general secretary. In 1994, he was one of the founders of the Yugoslav Left, a party led by Mirjana MarkoviÄ, the wife of Slobodan MiloÅ”eviÄ. In the new party, Vulin became a leader of the Revolutionary Youth, the party's youth organisation. He left the Yugoslav Left when it joined with the MiloÅ”eviÄ's Socialist Party to the coalition with the Vojislav Å eÅ”elj's Serbian Radical Party in 1998.
Later he founded the Democratic Left, and then the Movement of Socialists in August 2008.
In 2012, following the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election after which Serbian Progressive Party-led coalition took power, which consisted of Vulin's Movement of Socialists, Vulin was named the director of newly established Office for Kosovo and Metohija. He stayed on the position until 2 September 2013 when he became the Minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo and Metohija.
Following the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, leader of the Serbian Progressive Party Aleksandar VuÄiÄ formed the government on 27 April 2014 with Vulin being named the Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy. He kept the office after the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, in the second cabinet of Aleksandar VuÄiÄ.
During his time in the office as Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy, he was known for his often and fierce criticism directed towards Croatia, as well as occasional insulting of Croatian politicians and officials. On April 21, 2018, Vulin was proclaimed persona non grata in the Republic of Croatia after saying: "only the Supreme Commander of the Serbian Army ā Aleksandar VuÄiÄ ā can decide about me entering in Croatia, not Croatian ministers."
In June 2017, Aleksandar VuÄiÄ gave mandate to Ana BrnabiÄ to form the governmental cabinet. On 29 June 2017, the cabinet of Ana BrnabiÄ was formed, with Vulin swapping minister positions with Zoran ÄorÄeviÄ to become the Minister of Defence.
In 2020, he was awarded Order of the Flag of Republika Srpska.
In June 2021, Vulin spoke positive of Serbian irredentist idea of Greater Serbia by saying: "Greater Serbia never happened, otherwise we ā» would know where we live and which ethnic spaces belong to us".
In August 2022, Vulin visited Moscow and proclaimed to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, "Serbia is the only state in Europe that didnāt introduce sanctions and was not part of the anti-Russian hysteria."
Sanctions and resignationā»
On 11 July 2023 the US Department of the Treasury sanctioned Vulin, accusing him of "corrupt and destabilizing acts that have also facilitated Russia's malign activities in the region", including "support for a drug trafficking network and support for illegal arms shipments involving Slobodan Tesic (Croatian: Slobodan TeÅ”iÄ) and the Belarus firm Beltechexport (Belarusian: Ā«ŠŠµŠ»ŃŃŃ ŃŠŗŃŠæŠ°ŃŃĀ»)". On 3 November 2023, Vulin resigned from his position in the BIA, saying that he wanted to avoid possible further embargos against Serbia. On 27 December, Milorad Dodik appointed him as member of the consultative Senate of Republika Srpska.
On 30 January 2024, Vulin was awarded the Order of Friendship by Russian president Vladimir Putin. He received the award at the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Moscow, in a ceremony conducted by SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin, who cited Vulin's "continuous efforts to comprehensively develop Russian-Serbian relations and cooperation between the Russian and Serbian special services".
Return to governmentā»
On 30 April 2024, Vulin was named as one of several deputy prime ministers in the incoming government of MiloÅ” VuÄeviÄ. In June, Vulin visited Moscow. During the visit, he lied wreath on the grave of Joseph Stalin.
Notesā»
- ^ Slobodan TeÅ”iÄ (Serbian: Š”Š»Š¾Š±Š¾Š“Š°Š½ Š¢ŠµŃŠøŃ; born 21 December 1958, Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina) was blacklisted by the United Nations from 2003 until 2013 for his illegal arms trading of supposedly Nigeria bound weapons shipments through his firm Temex that violated international sanctions and went instead to Liberia which became known as the Orao Affair. In 2009, he allegedly attempted to supply Muammar el Gaddafi with $50 million worth of Zastava weapons and Sloboda missiles through his firm Melvale. According to United Nations experts, Tesic allegedly sent 3,000 tonnes of Belarusian ammunition as well as Serbian small arms, light weapons and machine guns to Libya from 2013 to the summer of 2014 which, beginning in April 2014, supported not the Libyan army. But Khaled Al Sharif and his support for an "autonomous armed group" that later led to a civil war between Sharif and his support for the Tripoli based Islamist regime against the internationally recognised government in Tobruk. He is also the owner of the firm Vektura trans which allegedly supported arms shipments, including KruÅ”iko mines and grenades, during July 2020 from Serbia to Armenia which were used in its conflict with Azerbaijan in the autumn of 2020. He owns two Serbian companies, Partizan Tech and Technoglobal Systems DOO Beograd, and two Cyprus-based companies, the 2010 founded Limasoll based Grawit Limited and the 2012 founded Limassol based Charso Limited which were allegedly linked to funding for politicians and the Serbian Progressive Party. He is under United States sanctions since 17 December 2017 and United Kingdom sanctions since 9 December 2022.
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Preceded by | Director of the Security Intelligence Agency 2022ā2023 |
Succeeded by Tomislav RadovanoviÄ (acting), later Vladimir OrliÄ
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Political offices | ||
New title | Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija 2012ā2013 |
Succeeded by |
New title | Minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo and Metohija 2013ā2014 |
Position abolished |
Preceded by | Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy 2014ā2017 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Minister of Defence of Serbia 2017ā2020 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Minister of Internal Affairs 2020ā2022 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Deputy Prime Minister 2024āpresent |
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New title | Leader of the Movement of Socialists 2008ā2022 |
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- Politicians from Novi Sad
- Serbian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
- Serbian people of Romani descent
- League of Communists ā Movement for Yugoslavia politicians
- Yugoslav Left politicians
- Movement of Socialists politicians
- Government ministers of Serbia
- Interior ministers of Serbia
- University of Kragujevac alumni
- Defence ministers of Serbia
- Serbian nationalists