Aleksandar Vulin, who formerly served as the Balkan's state interior minister and held the defence ministry portfolio prior to that, will become the new director of BIA, Serbia’s intelligence agency, the government said in a statement.As interior minister, he visited Moscow in August, a rare visit by a European state official that underlined Belgrade’s decision to distance itself from the West's actions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.He subsequently told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that "Serbia is the only state in Europe that didn’t introduce sanctions and was not part of the anti-Russian hysteria."Serbia, which is formally seeking European Union membership, has for years been drifting away from its EU-aligned trajectory and has been leaning towards traditional Slavic ally Russia, as well as China.He advocates the creation of a "Serbian World" -- mirroring the "Russian World" -- uniting Serbs under one flag led by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic."