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At an October 10, 1983, meeting, Deputy Chairman of the KGB Kryuchkov confirmed to East German foreign intelligence spy chief Markus Wolf that some Soviet KGB agents abroad had begun systematically reporting on indicators of a possible Western nuclear first strike. In this conversation, Kryuchkov provides a bona fide to Gordievsky’s published February 1983 cable (Document 9) by stating that the KGB intelligence directorate had given “a few assignments to some KGB resident agents abroad who have to report on them every two weeks.”
Kryuchkov attempted to explain the necessity of RYaN to Wolf by stating that “Currently strategic nuclear weapons can be used in less than 24 hours. So this is about the phase of decision-making, and about working out a system that denies the adversary the option of a surprise.”
For his part, Wolf appeared skeptical of the concept of RYaN, writing in a 1984 an appended note that RYaN “must be complemented, revised, and made more precise,” and bemoaning “the problem of not getting deceived” by faulty indicators. He concluded that “clear-headedness about the entire RYaN complex” was a “mandatory requirement.” In an addendum that Wolf drafted, he stressed the need to know the “actual situation” rather than the picture presented by Operation RYaN’s indicators. “Constant and ongoing assessments,” he wrote, “have to be made whether certain developments actually constitute a crisis or not.”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russian agents were tasked with the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in the UK. Kremlin critic Litvinenko died in 2006 in the UK after drinking green tea laced with poison at London’s Millennium Hotel. The substance in question was found to be Polonium-210, a rare radioactive material. Litvinenko had worked for the Russian security services before he defected and was granted asylum in the UK. Along with his now widowed wife, Marina Litvinenko, he was granted UK nationality before his assassination. Russia has always denied its involvement in the death of Litvinenko, who became a prominent critic of the Kremlin’s intelligence services and involved in exposing corruption.
An unfortunate accident was supposed to be the cause of death of the Minister of Emergency Situations, General Yevgeny Zinichev, official statements say. For many years, Zinichev was a trusted man of Vladimir Putin, who guided his career. Zinichev was a personal security officer, the Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Deputy Directorof the Federal Security Service, and the Head of one of the important state power ministries.
Novaya Gazeta handed over to the CEC a recording of a secret training session, during which it was decided who would win the elections in the Moscow region and with what result: AUDIO
At the disposal of “Novaya” was an audio recording of a meeting on “falsification of elections” in Korolev, near Moscow. Tatyana Yurasova talks about what we learned from the recording: the falsification curator sets a task for the heads of election commissions and explains the technology of stealing votes.
On September 2, the recording and the official request of the editorial staff were sent to the Central Election Commission – we are waiting for the official response of Ella Pamfilova.
Will we have an understanding that the sites are being watched? – the chairman of one of the electoral commissions asked with alarm in his voice, having heard that the video broadcast from the polling stations of the Queen will be conducted constantly, day and night.
Someone expressed a doubt: how do you know about it – in the area of a thousand plots. The skeptic was interrupted by the briefing woman. “I think they will call us and tell us,” she confidently told the heads of the PECs of the Moscow Region Korolyov who had gathered for the training.
She talked about innovations during the three-day voting in the elections to the State Duma and the Moscow Regional Duma, about the organization of work and, among other things, about the methods of falsification and actions that exclude the risk of getting caught for forgery. “The main thing is composure and calmness,” the woman repeated several times, instilling confidence in those present that she had everything under control.
One of those present made an audio recording of the briefing and gave it to Novaya Gazeta with a small annotation. Three people independently listened to the anonymous recording and, in terms of timbre, manner of speaking and a number of characteristic turns, made an assumption: the voice of the “instructor” seemed to them very similar to the voice of the adviser to the head of the “Queen” Zhanna Prokofieva.
Zhanna Prokofieva at one of the meetings of the working group at the Electoral Commission of the Moscow Region
The latter arrived in the city “in the train” of the former mayor of Reutov, Alexander Khodyrev, when he set his sights on the post of head of the “space capital”. And she began to engage in elections: first as the chairman of the territorial election commission, and then unofficially, as the deputy mayor, when in January 2017 she was “left” due to scandals in the elections to the State Duma. It was the user under the nickname “Zhanna Prokofieva” who directed the telegram chat “September 2019”, where the chairmen of precinct commissions discussed falsifications in the elections to the city council in the fall of 2019.
On the audio recording, a woman with a voice, as one might assume, similar to that of Zhanna Prokofieva, described how election commissions, with the support of the administration, would falsify elections in favor of United Russia and what result they should get. To achieve it she proposed a technology against which even “smart voting” is powerless.
No, – several voices of the seminar participants were heard at once. Apparently, people from other cities were present. On the eve of the elections in September 2019, several dozen residents from other cities of the Moscow region were brought into the composition of the royal election commissions – primarily Reutov, Balashikha and Mytishchi. All of them worked in housing and communal services companies controlled by people from the inner circle of Mayor Khodyrev. But if Korolev, along with Pushkino and Sergiev Posad, were included in the 125th constituency for the elections to the State Duma, then Reutov, Balashikha and Mytishchi constituted the 117th constituency. Districts also differed in the elections to the Regional Duma.
[Sergei] Pakhomov – to the State Duma, Sergei Aykovich Kerselyan – to the Mosoblduma, – named the “instructor” the names of the candidates from the “United Russia”, campaigning and whose portraits the whole Korolev was pasted over. According to her, for single-mandate candidates, it is not the percentages that are important, but the number of votes.
A minute earlier, “Zhanna Prokofieva” announced the result that the election commissions need to ensure according to party lists: “We are interested in a specific figure and a specific party – 42–45% according to the party list”. She did not mention the name of the party, but during the seminar more than once they talked about the “services” that should be provided to this particular party – for example, on election day, not only the TEC, but also United Russia should be informed about the turnout for a certain hour.
The audio recording says that this task – to provide “United Russia” with 45% – was set allegedly by the Main Directorate of Territorial Policy of the Government of the Moscow Region,
held in Korolyov a meeting of the headquarters for elections in the 125th constituency. The meeting, according to Zhanna Prokofieva, was also attended by the heads of Pushkino and Sergiev Posad. Mayor of the Queen Alexander Khodyrev made a report and informed about the measures to achieve the desired result. I liked the report.
“But after the end of the speech of Alexander Nikolaevich [Khodyrev] there was a big request (and you yourself understand that any request from the government is a law, an order), […] that everything would go like a blank sheet: cleanly, without comments, without statements, without complaints , without violating the electoral legislation “, – the” instructor “conveyed the” wish “of the higher authorities.
“We ourselves want to do this, we ourselves do not want to justify ourselves, answer, testify, talk with representatives of law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and higher commissions,” the woman motivated the chairmen.
In 2019, after the release of the investigation of the falsifications in Korolev, Zhanna Prokofieva had to give explanations to the working group of the Moscow Regional Electoral Commission. At the very first meeting, the members of the working group discovered that the bales of documents in the storage of the royal TEC looked very different than the packages on the site, as evidenced by photographs of the observers. Zhanna Prokofieva was invited to the second meeting, and she gave an explanation: they say that at night the chairman found forgotten documents in the safe, so they had to open the bale and pack it again. Several PEC chairpersons were also summoned to the meeting, and although the attempt to figure it out was more like a performance, they also had to endure several unpleasant minutes. It is unlikely that the secretary of the TEC Ekaterina Tseplyaeva also enjoyed the inspection and visits to the court.
Two men took an active part in the briefing. The “instructor” introduced them as deputy heads in charge of the elections. One was named Sergei Viktorovich, the other – Pavel Vladimirovich. According to “Zhanna Prokofieva”, the head asked them to also be present to understand the specifics of voting and the mechanisms for implementing the task.
On the official website of the Queen’s administration, among the deputy heads there are
Sergey Viktorovich Ivanov
Pavel Vladimirovich Kotov.
Sergei Ivanov and Pavel Kotov. Photo from the site of the “Queen’s administration”
Having designated the problem, “Zhanna Prokofieva” suggested tried-and-tested methods for solving it.
Submitting fake observers
“I hope THEM will not have enough strength to catch us like that, – we see how everything is going now,” the woman “instructor” was busily analyzing possible threats. They, in her opinion, came mainly from observers.
The main parties did not arouse alarm among the administration: “we have no problems with the Liberal Democratic Party,” “the party of Rost, we are not worried,” and everything is in order with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
We should be fine with the communists – whatever they are, but they are ours, royal, and not pro-American. “Zhanna Prokofieva” confirmed what ordinary communists and active citizens had long guessed about. The local Communist Party of the Russian Federation did not conduct an active campaign, kept campaigning on a meager ration, the recruitment of observers was carried out almost in secret from the party members. Many of them did not rule out that they would watch for the sake of appearance, as it was in the elections in 2019. Then, from the correspondence in the chat of the falsifiers, everyone learned about a large number of “our Communist Party of the Russian Federation” – those who became observers from the Communist Party on behalf of the administration.
Panel with video broadcasts from polling stations during voting in 2020. Photo: RIA Novosti
Only the observers of the candidate for the Moscow Regional Duma from the “Fair Russia” Olga Privalova instilled some alarm in “Zhanna Prokofieva”. The latter promised to close the polling stations with observers, to whom she was ready to pay money for three days of work. The recruitment took place on the VKontakte social network, it was reported by the local media, followed by Zhanna Prokofieva.
According to her, very few people were registered as observers. On the eve of the movement “Golos” was declared a foreign agent, and the “instructor” feared that the observers would be drawn to Privalovaya. Therefore, she suggested that the leadership of the election commissions step up in this direction.
“I think your fellow observers don’t care where to sit and do nothing, and even for a small salary,” she hinted transparently, avoiding words such as “zaslanets” and “fake observers”. At that time, there were about 60 people in the observer chat of the SR candidate.
“Only your own people, no one else,” shared “Zhanna Prokofieva” with a grin in her voice.
And nevertheless, despite all the efforts to make agreements and send fake observers, the “instructor” urged the participants of the seminar not to relax. Elections in the Queen rarely did without scandals, but here they asked to do everything cleanly and quietly. “Zhanna Prokofieva”, apparently, came up with a way to get the desired result and at the same time reduce the risks of failure to zero.
Voter and Observer Lists
“If you do everything competently, then even a smart, even stupid, even some kind of vote will not work,” Zhanna Prokofieva summed up, having finished answering the question from the audience about the turnout expectations.
In addition to home voting, which should account for 20% of the turnout, duplicate electoral lists should become the main mechanism for solving the problem. “One is for observers, the other is for voters,” said a woman with a voice that could be assumed to be similar to the mayor’s advisor, avoiding pronouncing the numbers out loud.
Judging by the reaction of the audience, everyone understood her perfectly.
The lists “for voters” are real; the voter signs on them upon receipt of the ballot. By counting the number of signatures, it is easy to find out the real turnout.
The lists “for observers” are fake, they will be pre-filled with the number of signatures required to get the “ER” result of 45%.
At some point, the “voter lists” will be replaced with fake ones. And “charging” ballots is not a problem, it is easier to manipulate them than to forge signatures on the go. Especially if there are observers at the site.
It is dangerous to work with a ready-made list – the voter can see what kind of a neighbor has signed.
“The [list] that will surrender, it turns out to be quite voluminous, by 45%. I advise you to start producing it immediately after receiving the sheets of the voter list, ”says Zhanna Prokofieva. It will take a lot of time to enter the data and sign for several hundred voters, so the “instructor” promises that the commissions will receive lists no later than 10 days before the start of voting.
List of voters assigned to the site. Photo: Svetlana Vidanova / Novaya Gazeta
The audience took the prospect of falsifying the lists calmly – after 15 minutes it turned out that this trick was used by the royal PECs at the all-Russian vote on the Constitution.
But the question of the timing of the change aroused keen interest because of the incident at the site number 1086 in the recreation center “Kostino”. During the voting on the amendments, the voter discovered that they had already signed for her and her relatives. Soon more than 40 people found fake signatures for themselves. One woman went to file a complaint with the prosecutor’s office, and the observer, Inna Karezina, called the police.
The commission urgently announced the disinfection of the premises, everyone was removed from the site. Upon their return, people suddenly found completely new books with voter lists on the PEC members – not the already worn and filled with fake signatures, but clean and almost without signatures. “It became clear that the commission had a duplicate list,” Karezina said later.
In the elections for amendments to the Constitution, observers at PEC No. 1086 Korolyov discovered fake signatures for voters. After the disinfection was suddenly announced at the site, the observers looked again at the lists – they were new and without violations.
To avoid a scandal escalation, the Moscow Regional Electoral Commission put pressure on the TEC, and as a result, voting at the polling station from June 25 to June 30, which is 1140 ballots, was invalidated.
According to independent analyst Sergei Shpilkin, an additional 41,000 votes were drawn in Korolev.
Apparently, that failure caused a lot of stress among the fraudsters, so at the seminar they arranged a detailed “debriefing”, trying to understand what was done wrong and where. According to “Zhanna Prokofieva” and “deputy head” Pavel Vladimirovich, the main mistake of the chairman of PEC No. 1086 Sergei Tarbin was that, being confused, he allowed outsiders to get acquainted with the list – observers, “people who failed, did not know and did not understand the legislation”, who came to the polling station in order to “assert themselves” at the expense of the PEC members.
“It is impossible to allow someone to get hold of the voter list until evening, this is nonsense,” the “instructor” instilled in the heads of election commissions.
And she prompted them to countermeasures: a preparation with references to articles of the law and strict observance of social distance.
She also instructed on the moment when it is best to replace the lists: “much after 20:00”: “At 20:00 on September 19, the last voter left, and you start: someone extinguishes unused ballots, and those who sat on the books [of the voter list ], – to work with books. And sit with them until the moment comes to replace them. At least sit until the carrot’s plot! “
In the 2019 local elections, observers were kept at polling stations until late at night. On the double federal and regional “carrot spell”, apparently, will stretch until the morning.
Returning to the story with the cancellation of the early deadline at PEC No. 1086, Zhanna Prokofieva, in fact, admits that the entire vote on the amendments was falsified: elections, and that this man [Inna Karezin] needed to be left at the polling station. To give, roughly speaking, this site as a sacrifice, so that she does not go further. “
According to the “instructor”, there was a lot of noise, people from a higher commission came to the recreation center “Kostino”, they called her herself from the CEC. “Well, nothing, we went through it,” said “Zhanna Prokofieva”.
On July 27, the Moscow Regional Electoral Commission made a decision on a petition to the Central Election Commission to award members of the Moscow Region electoral commissions with the honorary badge of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation “For merits in organizing elections”. Korolev is represented by one of the largest “delegations” – 12 people. The surnames for the most part coincide with the surnames of the participants in the “chat of forgers”.
At the polling station. Photo: Victoria Odissonova / Novaya Gazeta
Fraud scandals in Korolyov became an integral part of the electoral landscape with the accession of Mayor Khodyrev and his team to the city. And every time they invariably sounded the name of Zhanna Prokofieva. After the scandal with the removal of observers at the elections to the State Duma in 2016, she had to resign in order to then go for a promotion and continue to steer the elections.
At the end of October 2019, the CEC held a meeting at which they heard the report of the Moscow Regional Electoral Commission on checking the publication of Novaya Gazeta on falsification in Korolev. The head of the IKMO showed a presentation with a photograph of the working group and cheerfully reported to the CEC that then the case went downhill.
The head of the “chat of falsifiers” and its participants got away with it then. However, the diagnosis of “khodyrevshchina” was made, with which the CEC chairman identified the “remnants” of that most difficult negative phenomenon, reflecting flagrant violations in the electoral process of the Moscow region. The briefing made it clear to everyone that these “remnants” have long turned into metastases, and “Khodyrevschina” as a phenomenon is much broader, since, as one might assume, the government of the Moscow Region and patrons from the CEC are involved in it.
WE ARE WAITING FOR REACTION
On September 2, the recording and the official request of the editorial staff were sent to the Central Election Commission – we are waiting for the official response of Ella Pamfilova.
XI JINPING and Vladimir Putin have exchanged their views and found common ground on their outlook for Afghanistan. Here are the four key stipulations China has for the Taliban now the group is back in control in the country. All eyes are on Afghanistan now the Taliban has seized control of the country once again.
XI JINPING and Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Wednesday where the two unveiled a new approach to working with the Taliban as Western forces scramble to leave the country. Following the G7 summit, where Boris Johnson failed to convince Joe Biden into delaying the withdrawal of troops, China and Russia have pledged to respect the sovereignty of the Taliban leadership.
On April 6, 2018, the US Treasury Department introduced new sanctions against 24 Russians, including entrepreneurs and government officials from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. We believe that it would be wrong to rely solely on the opinion of a foreign government. The Dossier Center publishes its own list of possible organizers of the Kremlin organized criminal group and their likely accomplices with short profiles. Possible organizers Probable accomplices Ilya Eliseev Evgeny Prigozhin Vladimir Yakunin Gennady Petrov Gennady Timchenko Alexander Bortnikov Yuri Vorobyov Andrey Skoch Andrey Vorobyov Andrey Akimov Victor Vekselberg Alexander Bastry
Fears are growing over the prospect of Russia and China developing joint military capabilities that could spark another nosedive in relations with the West. Analysts say the two rogue states are on the verge of sharing each other’s electric communications systems to bolster their strategic presence.
The UK and its Western allies have been warned by a Conservative MP of an international crisis as China and Russia team up. Tory MP and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, Tobias Ellwood, warned that China and Russia teaming up could be a big challenge for the West.
Russian troops have arrived in China as the two nations plan on holding strategic military drills for the first time next week. The exercises are said to safeguard regional security and stability as well as securing the good relationship between Beijing and Moscow. The drills are planned to run for five days, taking place from August 9 to 13.
Christopher Andrew gave a series of three lectures in November on “The Lost History of Global Intelligence—and Why It Matters” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. The lectures focused on three themes: “How the Lead Role in Strategic Intelligence Passed from Asia to the West” on November 5; “The Strange History of American-British Intelligence Relations: from George Washington to Donald J. Trump” on November 6; and “Russian Intelligence Operations and the West: from Tsar Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin” on November 8.
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Both Russia and China are regularly engaging in “reckless” behaviour in space, bringing with it the risk of future devastating conflict, senior British military commanders have warned. Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigson fears future wars will be “won and lost” in the heavens.
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This executive order announced publicly acknowledged measures taken by the Obama administration in response to Russia’s alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic National Committee and other computer systems. The annex identifies the entities targeted by the measures – including the Russian security service (FSB) and military intelligence (GRU).
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The personalities and spectres of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin loom large in the events of the twentieth Century. They were similar in some respects and yet very different in others.
The first in a series that examines the interaction of the leading protagonists of WW2, this program looks in some depth at the nature of the relationship and interaction of these two ‘warlords’. The use of primary materials and memoirs as sources gives the psycho-historical analysis some substance.
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The first cracks to the Soviet Moloch started creeping in the late 70s. The centrally planned economy did not provide for the needs of the country with a population of almost three hundred million people.
Enormous resources were spent on the arms race and financing of foreign pro-Moscow politicians. The authorities still managed to hide the fact that the Bolshevist Titanic was doomed thanks to the Kremlin’s dictatorial regime.
After the death of Leonid Illich Brezhnev who had ruled the Soviet Union for 18 years, a chance for changes appeared. The next day after the death of the Secretary-General, citizens of the Soviet Union were announced about the appointment of a new Secretary-General. On June 16, 1983, a former KGB Head Yuriy Andropov took power over.
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Meduza and Open Media report: “Russia’s Federal Security Service reportedly believes foreign intelligence agencies are plotting a special operation to sneak imprisoned journalist Ivan Safronov out of the country. Citing but not naming one of Safronov’s friends, Open Media says federal investigator Alexander Chaban raised this concern during a recent closed hearing at Moscow’s City Court, where a judge ultimately decided to extend Safronov’s pretrial detention.
Ivan Pavlov, the head of the human rights group “Team 29,” confirmed to Interfax that Chaban warned in court that Safronova would supposedly flee to a diplomatic mission or consulate and leave Russia with the help of foreign spies, if released from pretrial detention. “[Chaban’s] theory that Ivan Safronov would flee the country, despite guarantees from hundreds of his colleagues, friends, and public figures, is complete nonsense,” Pavlov complained.
Following this week’s ruling, Safronov will remain in remand prison until October 7, 2021, pending developments in his case.”
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Soviet (and CCP) Subversion of the Free World Press, 1984 Complete Interview – Yuri Bezmenov Yuri Bezmenov: The Life and Legacy of the Influential KGB Informant Who Defected to the West: https://amzn.to/3tdCkdi
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former PGU KGB informant who defected to Canada. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India.
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Before Leonid Brezhnev signed nuclear arms reduction agreements with the West, he led the Soviets into one conflict after another. From Soviet involvement in Vietnam and its role in Arab-Israeli conflicts to the untold stories of the invasion of Afghanistan.
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In a December 2020 examination, Bellingcat and its accomplices recognized seven FSB officials who had followed Russian resistance pioneer Alexey Navalny on in excess of 35 excursions around Russia since mid 2017. Three individuals from this gathering – which included substance weapons specialists, clinical specialists and security agents – had shadowed Navalny to Novosibirsk and forward to Tomsk, during his August 2020 excursion to Siberia. Navalny fell into a close deadly trance state on a departure from Tomsk to Moscow on 21 Auguast 2020, the consequence of what three European labs and the OPCW later distinguished as extreme Novichok harming. The phone of one individual from the FSB group was geolocated inside strolling distance of the inn Navalny was remaining the prior night he became sick.
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Andrey Pivovarov
On May 31, policemen in St. Petersburg entered onto a plane not long before departure and captured Andrey Pivovarov, the previous chief head of the philanthropic association Open Russia (Otkrytaya Rossiya). Reports immediately surfaced that Pivovarov had been taken to the Investigative Committee for addressing regarding a criminal case concerning crafted by an “unfortunate association.” The BBC Russian Service later revealed that Pivovarov is dealing with criminal indictments over a Facebook post he purportedly distributed in August 2020. Pivovarov’s confinement came four days after Open Russia declared its disintegration trying to shield its activists and allies from criminal arraignment in front of approaching alterations to Russia’s law on “unwanted associations.”
On the evening of May 31, Andrey Pivovarov — the previous chief head of the as of late broke down not-for-profit association Open Russia — was captured in St. Petersburg. Depicting his own capture in a Telegram post, Pivovarov said that it occurred at the Pulkovo Airport: he was set to withdraw for a get-away in Warsaw, when he was removed a LOT Polish Airlines trip without a second to spare. Cops halted the flight of the plane, which was at that point on the runway and planning for departure. “The plane was halted while maneuvering, that is, the point at which the plane was going to take off […] a gathering of cops and FSB officials went ahead load up, after which they revealed to me that I’m needed,” Pivovarov told the radio broadcast Ekho Moskvy. As indicated by the basic liberties bunch Pravozashchita Otkrytki, Pivovarov isn’t liable to any movement limitations and wasn’t addressed at identification control. The Interior Ministry’s data set does exclude any data about Pivovarov being on a needed rundown.
Background
Citing the order to initiate proceedings, the BBC Russian Service reported that the decision to open a criminal case against Pivovarov was based on a Facebook post he allegedly published while in Krasnodar on August 12, 2020. According to the Russian BBC, state investigators describe the Facebook post as “United Democrats informational material” and claim that it concerned a fundraising campaign. The investigators therefore concluded that in writing this post, Pivovarov expressed his intent to participate in the activities of the “undesirable organization” Open Russia. That said, as noted by the Russian BBC, Pivovarov’s Facebook page doesn’t include any posts dated August 12, 2020 that fit this description. However, it’s possible that the investigation was actually referring to a Facebook post by district councilman Alexander Korovainy, which Pivovarov shared on August 13, 2020. Speaking about Open Russia activist Yana Antonova’s nomination to the Krasnodar City Duma, Korovainy wrote that her campaign would require at least 200,000 rubles (about $2,725) in funding, and described how to make a donation. Antonova told the Russian BBC that “no one from the Investigative Committee or any other structures” had contacted her in connection with Pivovarov’s arrest.
Andrey Pivovarov was detained four days after Open Russia (Otkrytaya Rossiya) announced its dissolution. On May 27, Pivovarov said that the NGO, which is linked to exiled former oil company executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was completely halting its operations, in order to protect its supporters from criminal prosecution. Pivovarov added that the decision to dissolve Open Russia voluntarily was linked to the amendments to the law on “undesirable organizations” that were submitted to the Russian State Duma earlier last month. That said, the Russia-based nonprofit Open Russia isn’t formally designated as “undesirable.” The pressure on its activists apparently stem from the fact that this status was handed down to two other organizations linked to Khodorkovsky, the Open Russian Civic Movement and OR (Otkrytaya Rossia).
Mikhail Khodorkovsky compared Pivovarov’s arrest to the Belarusian authorities forcing the landing of a Ryanair passenger plane in Minsk and subsequently arresting opposition journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Russian citizen Sofia Sapega.“Are there still doubts that Putin and Luka [Alexander Lukashenko] are two of a kind?” Khodorkovsky wrote on his Telegram channel on May 31. In turn, Tatyana Usmanova, the former coordinator of Open Russia, called the fact that Pivovarov was arrested for cooperating with an “undesirable organization” after Open Russia was dissolved “complete absurdity and lawlessness.”
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Russian Mafia in Brooklyn: Boris Nayfeld poses for a picture at the Russian Baths in the Brooklyn borough of New York, January 18, 2018. Organizer, enforcer and narcotics distributor for the Russian mafia.
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On April 6, 2018, the US Treasury Department introduced new sanctions against 24 Russians, including entrepreneurs and government officials from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. We believe that it would be wrong to rely solely on the opinion of a foreign government. The Dossier Center publishes its own list of possible organizers of the Kremlin organized criminal group and their likely accomplices with short profiles. Possible organizers Probable accomplices Ilya Eliseev Evgeny Prigozhin Vladimir Yakunin Gennady Petrov Gennady Timchenko Alexander Bortnikov Yuri Vorobyov Andrey Skoch Andrey Vorobyov Andrey Akimov Victor Vekselberg Alexander Bastrykin Igor Rotenberg Oleg Feoktistov Eduard Khudainatov Evgeny Shkolov Vladimir Ustinov Sergei Shoigu Viacheslav Volodin Nikolay Patrushev Georgy Poltavchenko Yuri Chaika Victor Zolotov Alexey Miller Igor Sechin Andrey Kostin Oleg Deripaska Suleiman Kerimov Yuri Kovalchuk Alexey Mordashov Iskandar Makhmudov Arkady Rotenberg Boris Rotenberg Kirill Shamalov
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By and by Russia has neglected to deal for certain mechanical limitations of its economy. This time is about the creation of the Russian Covid-19 antibody Sputnik V. So far the nation has finished only 8% of all orders it had gotten from different nations. Those that bought the poke before got little bits of it as Russia has issues creating its vaccines.
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Der Autor Jürgen Meyer analysiert: “In Moskau lernt Angela Merkel auch Ulrich Merkel kennen, den sie 1977 heiratet und bis 1981 zusammenlebt. Demnach muss sie 1977 und auch 1981 als privilegierter Reisekader in der Sowjetunion und Prag gewesen sein. Gleichzeitig 1978 unterzeichnete ihr späterer Freund Michael Schindhelm eine Verpflichtungserklärung als Mitarbeiter der Stasi der DDR bzw. des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit im Rahmen eines Studienaufenthaltes im russischen Woronesh.
The author Jürgen Meyer analyzes: “In Moscow, Angela Merkel also met Ulrich Merkel, whom she married in 1977 and lived together until 1981. According to this, she must have been a privileged travel cadre in the Soviet Union and Prague in 1977 and 1981 as well. Later friend Michael Schindhelm made a declaration of commitment as an employee of the Stasi of the GDR and the Ministry for State Security as part of a study visit to Woronesh, Russia.
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On April 6, 2018, the US Treasury Department introduced new sanctions against 24 Russians, including entrepreneurs and government officials from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. We believe it would be wrong to rely solely on the opinion of a foreign government. The Dossier Center publishes its own list of possible organizers of the criminal organization organized by the Kremlin and their likely accomplices with short profiles.
Ilya Vladimirovich Eliseev Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprombank
Date and place of birth 12/19/1965, Leningrad, USSR Citizenship RF Why on the list involvement and complicity in the activities of an organized criminal community aimed at was founded to systematically commit particularly dangerous crimes against the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the state, state power and the interests of the public service, the judiciary and against peace. Based on previously published materials in the media, Eliseev Ilya Vladimirovich suspects that he has concealed the corruption activities of the Russian authorities, the embezzlement of state property and tax evasion.
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Am 6. April 2018 führte das US-Finanzministerium neue Sanktionen gegen 24 Russen ein, darunter Unternehmer und Regierungsbeamte aus dem inneren Kreis von Wladimir Putin. Wir glauben, dass es falsch wäre, sich nur auf die Meinung einer ausländischen Regierung zu verlassen. Das Dossier Center veröffentlicht eine eigene Liste möglicher Organisatoren der von Kreml organisierten kriminellen Vereinigung und ihrer wahrscheinlichen Komplizen mit kurzen Profilen.
Ilya Vladimirovich Eliseev Stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender der Gazprombank
Geburtsdatum und-ort 19.12.1965, Leningrad, UdSSR Staatsbürgerschaft RF Warum auf der Liste Beteiligung und Mitschuld an den Aktivitäten einer organisierten kriminellen Gemeinschaft, die mit dem Ziel gegründet wurde, systematisch besonders gefährliche Verbrechen gegen die Grundlagen der verfassungsmäßigen Ordnung und Sicherheit des Staates, die Staatsmacht und die Interessen des öffentlichen Dienstes, der Justiz sowie gegen den Frieden zu begehen. Basierend auf zuvor veröffentlichten Materialien in den Medien wird Eliseev Ilja Wladimirowitsch verdächtigt, die Korruptionsaktivitäten der russischen Behörden, die Unterschlagung von Staatseigentum und Steuerhinterziehung verschwiegen zu haben.
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More fascinating than fiction, Seduced by Secrets takes the reader inside the real world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history. The book reveals, for the first time, the secret technical methods and sources of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security) as it stole secrets from abroad and developed gadgets at home, employing universal, highly guarded techniques often used by other spy and security agencies. Seduced by Secrets draws on secret files from the Stasi archives, including CIA-acquired material, interviews and friendships, court documents, and unusual visits to spy sites, including “breaking into” a prison, to demonstrate that the Stasi overestimated the power of secrets to solve problems and created an insular spy culture more intent on securing its power than protecting national security. It recreates the Stasi’s secret world of technology through biographies of agents, defectors, and officers and by visualizing James Bond–like techniques and gadgets. In this highly original book, Kristie Macrakis adds a new dimension to our understanding of the East German Ministry for State Security by bringing the topic into the realm of espionage history and exiting the political domain.
• Reveals previously secret methods and sources used by all spy agencies • Includes visits to spy sites • Reveals formulas and methods for invisible ink for the first time
Seduced by Secrets ist faszinierender als Fiktion und entführt den Leser in die reale Welt einer der effektivsten und gefürchtetsten Spionageagenturen der Geschichte. Das Buch enthüllt zum ersten Mal die geheimen technischen Methoden und Quellen der Stasi (Ostdeutsches Ministerium für Staatssicherheit), die Geheimnisse aus dem Ausland stahl und Geräte im Inland entwickelte, wobei universelle, streng gehütete Techniken eingesetzt wurden, die häufig von anderen Spionen und Spionage-Agenturen verwendet werden. Seduced by Secrets stützt sich auf geheime Akten aus den Stasi-Archiven, darunter von der CIA erworbenes Material, Interviews und Freundschaften, Gerichtsdokumente und ungewöhnliche Besuche bei Spionagestellen, einschließlich des “Einbruchs” in ein Gefängnis, um zu demonstrieren, dass die Stasi die Macht der Geheimnisse überschätzt hat, Probleme zu lösen und eine Inselspionagekultur zu schaffen, die mehr darauf abzielt, ihre Macht zu sichern als die nationale Sicherheit zu schützen. Es stellt die geheime Technologiewelt der Stasi durch Biografien von Agenten, Überläufern und Offizieren sowie durch Visualisierung von James-Bond-ähnlichen Techniken und Geräten wieder her. In diesem höchst originellen Buch fügt Kristie Macrakis unserem Verständnis des ostdeutschen Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit eine neue Dimension hinzu, indem sie das Thema in den Bereich der Spionagegeschichte bringt und den politischen Bereich verlässt.
• Enthüllt zuvor geheime Methoden und Quellen, die von allen Spionageagenturen verwendet werden • Beinhaltet Besuche von Spionageseiten • Enthüllt zum ersten Mal Formeln und Methoden für unsichtbare Tinte
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Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich (Ukrainian: Семе́н Ю́дкович Могиле́вич, romanized: Semén Júdkovych Mohylévych [seˈmɛn ˈjudkowɪtʃ moɦɪˈlɛwɪtʃ]; conceived June 30, 1946) is a Russian coordinated kingpin. He immediately fabricated an exceptionally organized criminal association, in the method of a conventional American mafia family. In reality, a large number of the association’s 250 individuals are his relatives. He is depicted by organizations in the European Union and United States as the “boss of the bosses” of most Russian Mafia organizations in the world, he is accepted to coordinate a tremendous criminal domain and is portrayed by the FBI as “the most perilous mobster in the world.” He has been blamed by the FBI for “weapons dealing, contract murders, coercion, drug dealing, and prostitution on a global scale.”
Mogilevich’s epithets incorporate “Wear Semyon” and “The Brainy Don” (in light of his business acumen). According to US strategic links, he controls RosUkrEnergo, an organization effectively engaged with Russia–Ukraine gas questions, and an accomplice of Raiffeisen Bank.
Mogilevich as of now lives openly in Moscow, and has three youngsters. He is most firmly connected with the Solntsevskaya Bratva wrongdoing bunch. He has close partnerships with political figures including Yury Luzhkov, the previous Mayor of Moscow, Dmytro Firtash, and Leonid Derkach, previous top of the Security Service of Ukraine. Oleksandr Turchynov, who was assigned as acting President of Ukraine in February 2014, showed up in court in 2010 for supposedly annihilating records relating to Mogilevich. Russian FSB deserter Alexander Litvinenko, in the blink of an eye before his death, guaranteed that Mogilevich had a “great relationship” with Vladimir Putin since the 1990s.
William Sessions, previous FBI Director from 1987 to 1993 during the Presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, was Mogilevich’s lawyer in the United States until Sessions’ demise on June 12, 2020.
Quote: “On April 6, 2018, the US Treasury Department introduced new sanctions against 24 Russians, including entrepreneurs and government officials from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. We believe it would be wrong to rely solely on the opinion of a foreign government. The Dossier Center publishes its own list of possible organizers of the Kremlin organized criminal organization and their likely accomplices with short profiles. “
Zitat:”Am 6. April 2018 führte das US-Finanzministerium neue Sanktionen gegen 24 Russen ein, darunter Unternehmer und Regierungsbeamte aus dem inneren Kreis von Wladimir Putin. Wir glauben, dass es falsch wäre, sich nur auf die Meinung einer ausländischen Regierung zu verlassen. Das Dossier Center veröffentlicht eine eigene Liste möglicher Organisatoren der von Kreml organisierten kriminellen Vereinigung und ihrer wahrscheinlichen Komplizen mit kurzen Profilen.”
Russland hat Agenten in den „internen Kreis“ der deutschen Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und in die österreichischen Geheimdienste aufgenommen, hat der im Exil lebende russische Tycoon Michail Chodorkowski enthüllt.
Sie seien jedoch nur Teil eines umfassenderen kremlfreundlichen Netzwerks in EU-Staaten, darunter die Tschechische Republik, Zypern, Frankreich, Griechenland, Lettland, Litauen und Polen.
Russia has enrolled agents in German chancellor Angela Merkel’s “internal circle” and in Austrian intelligence administrations, exiled Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has revealed.
But they are just part of a wider pro-Kremlin network in EU states, including the Czech Republic, Cyprus, France, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, he said.
Generaloberst Sergei Korolev (Bild oben), der zum neuen ersten stellvertretenden Direktor des Föderalen Sicherheitsdienstes (FSB) ernannt wurde, ist mit dem organisierten Verbrechen in Russland verbunden. Dies war wahrscheinlich ein entscheidender Faktor, um dieses endgültig zu stärken. Enge Verbindungen zur Unterwelt sind kein Problem. Der Kreml, der besorgt ist, dass Alexei Nawalny eine zusätzliche Reibungsquelle in einem System sein könnte, das bereits anfängt zu mahlen und zu stöhnen, sucht nach rücksichtslosen Vollstreckern.
Die Ernennung von Generaloberst Sergei Korolev zum neuen ersten stellvertretenden Direktor des Bundessicherheitsdienstes (FSB) könnte uns einen Hinweis darauf geben, wer bald zum Leiter des Dienstes aufsteigen wird, und sagt sicherlich viel über das Denken des Kremls über die Rolle von die Agentur. Es markiert jedoch auch eine weitere Degeneration des sogenannten „neuen Adels“.
Der FSB ist schließlich ein zentrales Element des Systems von Wladimir Putin, die Waffe, die auf einen seiner Feinde losgelassen werden muss. Wenn der Chef Überwachung und subtilere Einschüchterung wünschte, war es das, was er tat. Jetzt, da Putin in ein neues Zeitalter direkterer Unterdrückung eingetreten zu sein scheint, ist wieder der FSB an der Macht. Es war der FSB, der Alexei Nawalny vergiftete, der derzeit versucht, sein nationales Netzwerk aufzubrechen, und der hinter der Verhaftung von rund 200 Abgeordneten stand, die sich versammelt hatten, um über Wahltaktiken in Moskau zu diskutieren. Es ist jedoch mehr als nur eine politische Polizei: Es spielt eine wichtige Rolle in der Wirtschaft und prägt den Sicherheitsdiskurs, der sogar die Außenpolitik und Putins breiteres Verständnis der Welt beeinflusst. Nikolai Patrushev ist der Sekretär des Sicherheitsrates, der einem nationalen Sicherheitsberater am nächsten kommt, Putin selbst ist ein ehemaliger Direktor des FSB, und sein derzeitiger Direktor, Alexander Bortnikov, ist ein weiterer wichtiger Verbündeter des Präsidenten. Es ist sehr wichtig, wer für diese Institution verantwortlich ist.
IPräsident Medvedew und Smirnov im Kreml
Im Oktober 2020 trat der erste stellvertretende Generaldirektor des FSB, Sergei Smirnov, stillschweigend in den Ruhestand. Es war keine Überraschung, dass er in den Ruhestand gehen würde, da er 70 Jahre alt war und bereits krank war, aber es war eine Überraschung, dass er sein Amt mit einem solchen Mangel an Fanfare und ohne bequeme Sinekuren verließ. Immerhin war er eine mächtige und einflussreiche Persönlichkeit innerhalb der russischen Sicherheitsgemeinschaft.
In vielerlei Hinsicht war er in der Praxis einflussreicher als Bortnikov. Während Bortnikov der politische Direktor der Agentur ist, hatte Smirnov sichergestellt, dass er die wichtigsten Elemente des FSB – den Dienst für wirtschaftliche Sicherheit, den Dienst für den Schutz der Verfassungsordnung und die Direktion für innere Sicherheit – wirksam kontrolliert, sowohl durch die formelle Befehlskette als auch durch die clevere Ernennung von Handlangern und Stellvertretern.
Der Economic Security Service (SEB) ist, um es ganz klar auszudrücken, der größte Erzeuger illegaler Einkommen innerhalb des FSB. Der Dienst zum Schutz der Verfassungsordnung (SZKSiBT – normalerweise nur ZKS) ist das politisch wichtigste Element, zumal der Kreml sich zunehmend Sorgen um die Opposition macht. Die Direktion für innere Sicherheit (UVB) bietet die besten Mittel, um Druck auf Konkurrenten innerhalb des Dienstes sowie auf andere Sicherheits- und Strafverfolgungsbehörden auszuüben.
Es wäre schwer, Smirnovs bösartigen Einfluss zu überschätzen, nicht zuletzt im Hinblick auf die anhaltende Korruption des FSB. Natürlich war er ebenso symptomatisch wie ursächlich. Die Agentur hatte lange Zeit ein Problem mit den unvermeidlichen Versuchungen der Erpressung und Unterschlagung aufgrund ihrer Kombination aus Macht und Straflosigkeit. Es ist auch wahr, dass es viele im Wesentlichen professionelle und ehrliche FSB-Offiziere gibt. Ihnen fehlen jedoch per Definition sowohl die externen Vorteile ihrer moralisch flexibleren Kollegen. Sie sind durch ihre blosse Existenz eine Bedrohung für die korrupten FSB-Agenten.
Nichtsdestotrotz ist der vielfach dekorierte Smirnov, der Klassenkamerad des Sicherheitsratssekretärs Nikolai Patrushev und des ehemaligen Innenministers und Sprecher der Staatsduma, Boris Gryzlov, an der Leningrader Sekundarschule Nr. 211 gewesen ist, besonders mit dem Niedergang der UVB, verbunden.
UVB soll die Beobachter beobachten und die Korruption innerhalb des FSB bekämpfen. In vielerlei Hinsicht wurde er kaum mehr als der Erpresser der Erpresser, der sich von verschiedenen korrupten Schemata korrumpieren ließ, ein Auge zuzudrücken, und auch ein Vollstrecker, der gekauft werden konnte.
Bortnikov ist ein Falke und ein williger Vollstrecker der politischen Unterdrückung des Kremls im Inland und der Subversion im Ausland. Berichten zufolge genießt er auch den üblichen Lebensstil eines hochrangigen russischen Geschäftsmanns, und es wird allgemein angenommen, dass der rasche Aufstieg seines Sohnes Denis zum Vorsitzenden der VTB-Bank zumindest etwas der Position seines Vaters zu verdanken hat. So lauwarm eine Bestätigung auch sein mag, nach den Maßstäben seiner Kollegen hat Bortnikov den Ruf, eine der persönlich ehrlicheren Figuren zu sein. Mit den Worten eines FSB-Veteranen: “Er ist nicht besonders zufrieden mit dem, was im Dienst passiert, der offensichtlichen Korruption, der Disziplinlosigkeit, dem offensichtlichen Söldnerismus.” Aber er weiß nicht, was er dagegen tun soll, und hält es für nicht so wichtig wie die politische Arbeit zu erledigen.”
Als sich Smirnov dem Ruhestand näherte, war es nicht überraschend, dass Korolev bald als sein wahrscheinlicher Nachfolger ausgezeichnet wurde. Immerhin war Korolev so etwas wie ein Schützling von ihm und hatte die richtige Erfolgsbilanz. Er hatte in der Direktion für militärische Spionageabwehr (UVKR) gearbeitet, die ebenfalls Teil von Smirnovs Reich war, und dann die UVB geleitet. Während seiner Amtszeit als Chef wurde die Sechste Abteilung des UVB berüchtigt als der sogenannte “Sechin’s Spetsnaz”, der als Vollstrecker von Rosneft-Chef Igor Sechin fungierte – eine mächtige Figur in Russland, zwar, aber ohne Platz im FSB Befehlskette. Dies war genau der “Söldnerismus”, der Bortnikov bestürzte – und in Verlegenheit brachte -, aber er scheint das Gefühl gehabt zu haben, nichts dagegen tun zu können.
Im weiteren Sinne war das UVB das Herzstück einer ganzen Reihe hochkarätiger Strafaktionen, die mehr der politischen Abrechnung und wirtschaftlichen Rivalitäten als der Sicherheit gewidmet schienen, einschließlich der virtuellen Entmannung der Hauptdirektion für wirtschaftliche Sicherheit und Korruptionsbekämpfung der Polizei (GUEBiPK) und Fälle gegen eine Reihe lokaler Beamter, darunter den ehemaligen Gouverneur von Kirow, Nikita Belykh, Komis Vyacheslav Gaizer, Alexander Khoroshavin von Sachalin und Igor Pushkarev, Bürgermeister von Wladiwostok.
2016 wurde Korolev zum Leiter der SEB ernannt. Dies folgt auf den Rücktritt des früheren Amtsinhabers Yuri Yakovlev, der wiederum aus einer Untersuchung resultierte, die von niemand anderem als Korolevs UVB eingeleitet wurde. Sein damaliger Ruf war nach den Worten des Nationalen Antikorruptionsausschusses Kirill Kabanov ein „Cleaner“, zu sein, mit anderen Worten ein jemand, der Probleme lösen konnte, sei es im Interesse des Kremls oder eines anderen Kunden oder Kunden.
Sein Aufstieg zum Leiter der SEB ist vollzogen und nun ist die Rede davon, dass er ein zukünftiger Nachfolger von Smirnov – und sogar Bortnikov sein könnte. Korolev ist es bis dahin gelungen war, die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit zu vermeiden, er geriet jedoch zunehmend in die Öffentlichkeit. Nach seiner letzten Beförderungung veröffentlichte das unabhängige Ermittlungsunternehmen Istories einen langen Artikel über Korolevs angebliche Unterweltkontakte. Im Jahr 2019 hatte The Insider behauptet, Korolev sei das mysteriöse “Boltay-Bein”, auf das in abgefangenen Telefongesprächen mit Gennady Petrov Bezug genommen wurde, dem mutmaßlichen Kingpin der Tambov-Malyshev-Verbrecherbande (Petrov wird von der spanischen Polizei gesucht, aber ist immer noch auf freiem Fuß, man vermutet, dass er in Russland sei). Istories ging noch einen Schritt weiter und zeichnete ein Muster von Unterweltkontakten auf.
Die gemeldete Beteiligung an dem Fall Golunov (in dem ein Journalist ungeschickt verhaftet wurde) hat möglicherweise Korolevs jüngste Beförderung vorübergehend zum Erliegen gebracht (er ist der Pate eines seiner Initiatoren). In der Tat gab es Vorschläge, dass der Job entweder an den Leiter der FSB-Direktion in Moskau und der Region Moskau, Alexei Dorofeev (als Kompromisskandidat), oder an jemanden, der aus Putins Prätorianergarde, dem Bundesschutzdienst (FSO), stammt, gehen könnte, wie z.B. an seinen derzeitigen Leiter, Dmitri Kochnev. Während der FSB häufig an den Bemühungen beteiligt ist, einen Variantag zu verhängen („Varangian“ – Slang für einen Außenstehenden, der eine Region oder Organisation in den Schatten stellt), gelang es ihm, sich der gleichen Gefahr selbst zu widersetzen.
Als Bortnikov laut Istories von einer von Korolevs Unterweltbeziehungen hörte – mit dem Gangster-Vigilanten Aslan Gagiev -, rief er ihn zur Befragung an. Einer von Korolevs Freunden sagte Berichten zufolge, während “jemand anderes angefangen hätte, irgendwie herumzuspielen, um etwas zu erfinden, erzählte er alles so, wie es war.” Er hat sich wie ein Mann verhalten. “
Nach anderen Berichten zu urteilen, war Bortnikov nicht besänftigt, hatte aber das Gefühl, auf den gut vernetzten Korolev nicht verzichten zu können. Schließlich besteht das Gefühl, dass die „oberste Bank“ des FSB nicht besonders talentiert aussieht, und es ist nicht so, als wären die anderen hochrangigen Persönlichkeiten notwendigerweise Leuchtfeuer der Tugend. Korolev gilt zumindest als hart, fähig und rücksichtslos. Dies war wahrscheinlich ein entscheidender Faktor, um ihn endgültig zu befördern. Derzeit wird viel darüber gesprochen, dass der FSB für alles zuständig ist, von der Wirtschaftspolitik bis zum politischen Management.
Vieles davon ist übertrieben. Um ehrlich zu sein, viele der vom FSB verkörperten Einstellungen finden sich in allen möglichen anderen Personen und Agenturen – oder zumindest haben sie gelernt, politische Chamäleons zu sein, und können leicht jede Farbe annehmen, die die Zeit erfordert. Es ist jedoch klar, dass der Kreml besorgt über Alexei Nawalny und die Opposition ist. Es ist nicht so sehr, dass sie eine direkte Bedrohung darstellen, sondern dass sie eine zusätzliche Reibungsquelle in einem System darstellen, das bereits unter dem Druck der wirtschaftlichen Stagnation, der internationalen Sackgasse und des Mangels an langfristigen Investitionen und Visionen zu mahlen und zu stöhnen beginnt.
In diesem Zusammenhang sucht der Kreml nach Vollstreckern, und es gibt viele Gerüchte darüber, dass Korolevs Überleben und Beförderung – und damit die Aussicht auf eine Krönung als Bortnikovs Nachfolger, der im November 70 Jahre alt wird – weniger die Entscheidung des Direktor sind als die von Präsident Putin. Dies ist ein Grund, warum Putin darüber nachdachte, jemanden wie Kochnev oder einen anderen FSO-Veteranen, Gouverneur von Tula Alexei Dyumin, in die Position zu bringen. Ihnen fehlt die Erfahrung und, wie unfreundliche Seelen sagen könnten, der Witz für die Rolle, aber niemand würde ihre Loyalität gegenüber Putin oder ihre Bereitschaft in Frage stellen, alles zu tun, um das Regime zu retten.
Doch hier ist wohl Putins Blindspot. Auf den ersten Blick scheint Korolev der perfekte Kandidat zu sein: relativ jung, unbestreitbar scharf, erfahren, gut vernetzt und so gnadenlos, wie es sich jeder von seinem neuen Wachhund wünscht. Was Putin betrifft, scheint er Korruption oder enge Verbindungen zu Persönlichkeiten sowohl in der Unterwelt als auch in der Elite der Oberwelt (Korolev wurde sowohl mit den Rotenbergs als auch möglicherweise auch mit Sechin in Verbindung gebracht) nicht als Problem zu sehen.
Sie sind es jedoch. Genau diese inzestuösen Verbindungen zwischen Wirtschafts- und Zwangskraft – im Netzwerk von Sechins Spetsnaz und von Wirtschaftsminister Alexei Ulyukaev – haben zur aktuellen Krise geführt. Sie sind die Grundlage für die Veruntreuung im industriellen Maßstab, die die Wirtschaft untergräbt, und für die „Razzia“, die die technokratischen Bemühungen zur Förderung von Investitionen und Innovation verspottet. Sie bewahren die Korruption auf allen Ebenen des Systems, insbesondere wenn sie von den Behörden durchgeführt werden, die sie überwachen sollen, was Nawalnys Botschaft eine solche Resonanz verliehen hat. Und letztendlich sind sie nur sich selbst treu. Man muss sich fragen, ob sie in einer Krise Putin bis zum Ende verteidigen würden.
Wie viele Kaiser haben sich letztendlich für die Loyalität ihrer Prätorianer beworben und erkannt, dass Loyalität, die mit Gold und Nachsicht gekauft wurde, überhaupt keine Loyalität ist ?
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A court in Moscow suspended the exercises of a few associations established by the detained top Kremlin pundit Alexei Navalny, until it settles on a solicitation by investigators to pronounce these associations “fanatic.”
The Moscow City Court “has chosen to utilize the break proportions of security through disallowing certain demonstrations with respect to the Anti-Corruption Foundation and the Citizens’ Rights Protection Foundation non-business associations,” the court said, as indicated by the Russian news office Tass.
Investigators accept that these associations “are setting conditions for destabilizing the socio-political circumstance, and that they will probably arrange affections for changing the establishment of the protected request, to be specific by utilizing a ‘shading transformation’ situation,” the organization said, alluding to a rush of favorable to vote based system fights in post-Soviet nations and the Middle East 10 years prior. In those insurgencies, non-administrative associations assumed a critical part.
“The indictment likewise believes that these constructions are completing the movement of unfamiliar and global associations thought about unfortunate on Russian soil,” read the organization report.
Russian specialists have effectively denoted Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) as a “unfamiliar specialist” in October 2019.
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Bulgaria is examining six Russian nationals over their supposed inclusion in a progression of arms stop blasts going back the extent that 2011, the representative for the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office declared at a public interview on Wednesday, April 28. The blasts focused on weapons obviously bound for fare to Georgia and Ukraine, which had a place with Bulgarian arms seller Emilian Gebrev. Bulgarian examiners likewise accept there might be an association between the impacts and the harming endeavor on Gebrev in 2015.
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Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin and Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov.
The Kremlin, concerned that Alexei Navalny could be an additional source of friction in a system already beginning to grind and groan, is looking for ruthless enforcers. Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin designated a man named Sergei Korolev as first delegate head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s fundamental security office.
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State investigators in Moscow have documented a claim to assign Alexey Navalny’s whole enemy of debasement and political framework as “fanatic” associations, successfully prohibiting these gatherings. In particular, authorities are focusing on the Anti-Corruption Foundation and the Citizens’ Rights Protection Foundation (the two of which Russia’s Justice Ministry has effectively assigned as “unfamiliar specialists”), just as Navalny’s cross country organization of mission workplaces. Meduza asked Valeriya Vetoshkina, a basic freedoms attorney at Team 29, what may befall everybody currently working and chipping in at Navalny’s associations, and how the specialists could deal with allies.
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Chechen Duce Ramzan Kadyrov has a second spouse notwithstanding his “official” wife. While polygamy isn’t remarkable in Chechnya, it is in fact against Russian law.
Kadyrov’s subsequent spouse, Fatima Khazuyeva, who won second spot in a generally advertised 2006 excellence challenge at 14 years old, has three Moscow lofts enlisted in her name, worth about $5 million altogether.
Different ventures associated with Khazuyeva have been paid for by the Akhmat Kadyrov Public Foundation, one of Russia’s biggest magnanimous establishments, which is named after Kadyrov’s dad. These incorporate a revenue driven recovery place run by her mom’s organization, and a school and mosque named after her dad.
The estimation of Kadyrov’s two spouses’ land, in any event $8 million altogether, is more than twice his pronounced compensation since 2008.
In 2006, the public authority of the Chechen Republic coordinated a marvel challenge for a reason.
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In recent days, social media users have begun to publish and distribute quite massively videos of Russian military equipment moving along railways and roads, reportedly towards the border with Ukraine. We collected these videos and mapped them (geolocating videos taken in rural areas is difficult enough, so the location is indicated by eyewitnesses). Most of the videos are from Crimea and the Rostov region. They show tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, howitzers and self-propelled artillery installations, as well as trucks for transporting personnel. It is worth noting that in at least two different videos, the side numbers of some (but not all) cars are painted over with white paint – both of them were probably filmed in Crimea back in February.
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When it comes to carrying out repressions, the Russian government’s reach isn’t limited by its own borders. The Kremlin is known for going after perceived enemies abroad — especially former “insiders” and members of the political opposition. In recent years, high-profile assassinations linked to Russian agents have made headlines around the world, and Moscow has developed a reputation for abusing the Interpol notice system.
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President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Viktor Medvedchuk
Ukrainian legislator Viktor Medvedchuk is a nearby partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and a solid Kremlin partner. Another examination uncovers how a deal energy bargain in Russia has gotten him and an accomplice a huge number of dollars.
Through an organization of shell organizations, Viktor Medvedchuk and a long-lasting colleague acquired a rewarding stake in a Russian petroleum processing plant for simply more than $40,000.
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Alexey Navalny’s allies have reported the beginning of another “Freedom for Navalny!” crusade, which incorporates plans to hold another convention requiring his delivery from jail.
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The Family of the Russian $ 23,9-Billionaire Mordashova, Owner of Severstal,
Mordashov and his first wife Elena (sometimes Yelena) have a son, Ilya, and divorced in 1996. In 2001, it was revealed in a St Petersburg divorce court that he was paying only $620 a month to support his ex-wife and son, when she sued him for half of his pre-divorce property but lost the case and incurred large fees. The case was eventually settled after she took it to the European Court of Human Rights.
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Ramzan Kadyrov
On Monday, March 15, the paper Novaya Gazeta distributed a report by columnist Elena Milashina, named “I Served in the Chechen Police and Didn’t Want to Kill People.” The story highlights disclosures from Suleiman Gezmakhmaev, a previous official in Chechnya’s Akhmat Kadyrov Police Patrol Service Regiment, about how his unit executed a few local people in mid 2017. He says he helped capture and investigate a portion of these individuals, however he denies taking part in their torment and murder. Prior to distributing Gezmakhmaev’s story, Novaya Gazeta and its accomplices encouraged him and his family escape Russia. In the article, Milashina portrays in detail how she associated with Gezmakhmaev, what he did in the Chechen police, how the executions occurred, and which job high-positioning police authorities supposedly played in the killings.
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A KGB Office in the KGB Museum, New York City, NYC, USA
Correspondents from iStories and Meduza inspected Moscow court archives and discovered more than 140 “proficient observers” — individuals who consistently affirm in legal disputes identified with drug charges. The training is unmitigatedly illicit, however judges send individuals to jail for quite a long time dependent on these observers’ declarations.
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Putin and his bossom friend Randy Gerd from Germany
Very rich person and long-lasting Putin partner Arkady Rotenberg has approached as the authority proprietor of the Russian president’s “castle.” soon, another enormous development adventure will start close to the home — 119 hectares (around 294 sections of land) has been dispensed for a chasing lodge. The “Divnomorskoye” domain is found close by — a 323-hectare (798-section of land) property that incorporates a spa unpredictable, a winery, and a “tasting house.”
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Elon Musk may have failed to get Vladimir Putin into a chat room on Clubhouse, but one of the Russian president’s alleged daughters has joined the new social network. Late on Tuesday, Louiza Rozova spoke briefly to Andrey Zakharov, one of the journalists who recently outed her as Putin’s supposedly illegitimate daughter. In November 2020, Zakharov and others at Proekt released an investigative report revealing that a minority stake in the enormous Rossiya Bank belongs to a woman named Svetlana Krivonogikh, apparently received thanks to her intimate association with Russia’s president. Proekt also reported that Krivonogikh has a daughter named Louiza Rozova who “looks remarkably” like Putin. Based on a transcript reported by The Village, Meduza summarizes Rozova’s Clubhouse broadcast on Tuesday night.
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Putin’s henchman has asked Moscow’s Babushinsky District Court to fine opposition politician Alexey Navalny 950,000 rubles (nearly $13,000) for slandering a World War II veteran, Meduza’s correspondent reported from the courtroom on Tuesday, February 16.
Navalny’s defense team, in turn, has asked the court for his acquittal.
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Most recently, investigative reporters at Sobesednik, Proekt, The Bell, and other outlets have linked the infamous “palace” to Yuri Kovalchuk, the principal shareholder of Rossiya Bank and one of Vladimir Putin’s oldest friends.
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Sergey Toni
A 33-year-old Russian man who runs no known profitable businesses secretly owns European real estate and other assets worth at least 50 million euros, corporate records from Luxembourg show.
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Evgeny Feldman
On February 2, a Moscow court incarcerated Alexey Navalny, making him not only Russia’s most outspoken opposition politician and most serious opponent to Vladimir Putin but also the country’s most famous political prisoner. Drawing heavily on work by Evgeny Feldman, Meduza studied photo archives to recall how Navalny went from a young Moscow activist and blogger in the mid-2000s to the international figure he is today. His journey, which features arrests, political campaigns, criminal cases, assaults, and a near-fatal poisoning, hasn’t been easy.
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Thousands of emails sent and received by Kirill Shamalov — Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law — showcase the fantastic wealth and personal power that come with access to Russia’s first family.
Key Findings
Shamalov and Putin’s daughter spent millions setting up luxurious households in Russia and France even as Putin banned Russian elites from owning foreign assets.
Soon after marrying Putin’s daughter, Shamalov spent an astonishing $100 to acquire a share in Russia’s largest petrochemical company that was worth $380 million.
Shamalov later acquired an additional, much larger stake in the company in a well-known deal that made him a billionaire. His emails reveal that this acquisition was just one of the lucrative opportunities with which he was presented — and contain a hint about how it may have been structured.
Shamalov’s proximity to political power made him a highly desired partner. In one case, he was offered a free share in a large company in exchange for his ability to wield “administrative resources,” exemplifying the corrupt nexus of power and business that characterizes modern Russia.
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The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on EU member states to “significantly strengthen” sanctions against Russia and stop work on completing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in response to the arrest of opposition figure Alexey Navalny.
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