A branch of the Russian non-governmental organization "Druhaya Ukraina" (Another Ukraine) was registered in Serbia. It was created by Viktor Medvedchuk, a former Ukrainian politician accused of treason, after being transferred to the Russian Federation.
A branch of Medvedchuk's anti-Ukrainian movement was registered in Serbia
Dragan Stanojevic, a candidate for parliament in Serbia who publicly supports Russian aggression, became the head of the organization's division.
The "Druhaya Ukraina" organization itself, founded by Medvedchuk in Russia, was renamed. It is not a "regional" but an "international social movement".
According to the register of legal entities of Serbia, the representative office of the Russian organization "Druhaya Ukraina" was opened in August 2023. According to the data from the official extract, the "Druha Ukraina" Representative Office (the name of the branch in Serbian) declares the purpose of its activity is "the establishment of mutually beneficial cooperation between the peoples of Serbia, Russia and Ukraine", and the authorized representative of the representative office is Dragan Stanojevych (Драган Станојевић).
What is known about Dragan Stanoevich
Stanojevic is a pro-Russian Serbian public figure and politician. Since June 2021, he has been under the sanctions of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council; since then, he has been banned from entering Ukraine for three years.
Stanoyevich has repeatedly publicly expressed his admiration for the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, approved the position of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, supported Russian military aggression in Ukraine, rejoiced at Russian shelling of the centre of Kyiv, and was outraged by the detention of Viktor Medvedchuk by the Security Service of Ukraine in 2022.
Currently, Dragan Stanojevich is the current candidate from the pro-Russian party, "We are the Voice of the People", in the early parliamentary elections scheduled for December 17, 2023.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dragan Stanojevic lived in Ukraine, headed the "Serb Community in Ukraine", and participated in public actions in Kyiv and "Putin's Political Party" meetings.
According to the YouControl platform, in Ukraine, Dragan Stanojevich is still the head of LLC "Joint Ukrainian-Yugoslav firm Yug-Ukr-Kontrakt" and owns property in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
