Who Is on Vuc… Vulin’s Hit List?

2026-03-06 - 07:16

Good morning! Aleksandar Vulin has been activated again. This time, he is threatening the Prime Minister of Kosovo and other “anti-Serbs” from the region with retaliation. According to Vulin and the team at Pink TV, these “anti-Serbs” should be eliminated in the same way Mossad eliminates terrorists. What does Vulin’s message actually mean, and should it be seen as the harmless rambling of a psychologically unstable court jester? Click here to join our Viber group, where we keep you updated live with the latest news and answer your questions directly. Who is on Vuc... Vulin’s hit list? Aleksandar Vulin is a man who, during the second half of Vucic’s rule, has held nearly all of the key security positions in Serbia—from Minister of Police, to Minister of Defence, to the head of the notorious BIA intelligence agency. One may think many things about him, but the fact is that during that period Serbia pursued an intensive policy of influence across the region—especially in Montenegro, operated in Bosnia, and tried to maintain its positions in Kosovo. Under his mandate, Serbia’s arms industry recorded significant growth, while the state rapidly accelerated its rearmament process. At the same time, Vulin publicly promoted a broader national strategy which, modelled after the Russian concept, he called the “Serbian World.” We must not fall into the trap of ignoring madmen simply because they are mad—especially when they hold positions of power. That is when they are the most dangerous. How dangerous Vulin can be is best known to Russian opposition figures who ended up in prison because of him. It was he who provided Russian services with surveillance recordings made by Serbian agencies in Serbia, which Russian authorities later used as evidence in court against Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin. This shows that Vulin is ready to go very far. We have seen how murals reading “When the Army Returns to Kosovo” were financed from the state budget, how paramilitary and militaristic Orthodox groups in Montenegro were supported, and how resources were invested in networks of online activists and propagandists. Faced with the strong pressure that the latest protests have put on Vucic’s government, as well as with the political defeats of Serbian policy in Kosovo—where Albin Kurti has significantly pushed them back—Vulin is now openly calling for a radicalisation of the intelligence apparatus’s activities. He sees a model for such an approach in Russian security services, but also in the former Yugoslav secret police, known for assassinating political opponents abroad. In other words, Vulin is practically talking about the political elimination of leaders, journalists, and public figures from the region who Serbian propaganda labels as “anti-Serbs.” Although he invokes Mossad in his rhetoric, such a comparison does not hold. Mossad did not target journalists and public figures for their spoken words, even when dealing with the most radical antisemites. Its operations were directed at people whom Israel considered a direct security threat. Vulin, however, has for years targeted politicians, journalists, and activists whom propaganda arbitrarily brands as enemies. First, they tried to destroy their reputations through lies and propaganda. Then they banned them from entering Serbia. Now, evidently, even that is not enough—so physical eliminations are being discussed as a way of intimidating the region. I fear, however, that this rhetoric—like many before it—will ultimately come back as a boomerang. I fear that this story, like all others with similar intentions, will also return to them like a boomerang. That’s all for today and for this week. Shabbat Shalom. See you again on Monday. Kind regards, Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst (Columnists’ opinions and views do not necessarily reflect the views of the CdM editorial board)