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Militants, Police, Servicemen Die in North Caucasus Violence
July 15, 2009Top Russian officials are claiming that the security situation in the North Caucasus is improving. News reports from the region, however, paint a different picture. President Dmitry Medvedev told Ingushetia's acting president, Rashid Gaisanov, during...
Taras Kuzio: SBU Challenges the FSB in Crimea
July 14, 2009By Taras Kuzio In line with implementing stricter security policies in Sevastopol and the Crimea, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) is adopting tougher policies towards Russian intelligence activities in the peninsula. These follow the August ...
Russia Special Services Again Play the ‘Jewish Card’ against Ukraine
July 09, 2009By Paul Goble For entirely understandable reasons, there has been much speculation but little serious discussion about the specific role Moscow’s intelligence services have played in relations between Russia and the former Soviet republics in...
Moscow Gave Far More Medals in Chechen War than in Afghanistan
June 15, 2009By Paul Goble The Russian defense ministry has named 322 of its soldiers a Hero of the Russian Federation for their actions in the two Chechen campaigns, nearly four times as many Heroes of the Soviet Union (85) that its Soviet predecessor handed out...
Bombings and Shootings Reported Across North Caucasus
June 02, 2009A month and a half after the President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an official end to the decade-long counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya, bombings and shootings have been reported there and in neighboring Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia over the...
Russia's FSB Seeks to Suppress Coverage of Circassian Issue
May 28, 2009By Paul Goble Operating on the principle that if “there is no publication, there is no problem,” the FSB has sought to reduce to a minimum coverage of the Circassian issue both in Russia and abroad, efforts that reflect Moscow&rsquo...
Moscow Increasingly Represses Civil Society, Rights Activist Says
May 27, 2009By Paul Goble The Russian government, using both its own structures and others allied with it, is repressing civil society by means of murders, beatings and the fabrication of criminal and administrative cases, according to Lev Ponomaryev, a...
Analysis: FSB: Law enforcement success. Trepashkin penalized
April 03, 2007By Fabian Adami, ISCIP Trepashkin: State revenge for Litvinenko allegations? In October 2003, Mikhail Trepashkin, a lawyer and former FSB officer was arrested on charges of treason. The FSB alleged that classified documents, which Trepashkin supposedly...
Alexander Litvinenko's death should not be used for provocation - Putin
November 25, 2006Russia's president said Friday he regrets that people have used an ex-FSB officer's death in London, following an alleged poisoning, for political provocations. "It is a pity that tragic events like death have been used for political provocations...
Kremlin Says Litvinenko's Death 'A Tragedy'
November 25, 2006A Kremlin official today described the death of former Russian spy Aleksandr Litvinenko in London as a "tragedy." Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says an investigation into the case is a matter for British authorities. He made the remarks...
