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Russian Federal Security Service reported about its achievements: 2.5 tons of explosives withdrawn in Southern Russia this year
Russian Federal Security Service members got number of high state awards for two Chechen campaigns
Wife of arrested Kazakhstan’s uranium company president prevented from leaving country
Missing Polish military intelligence coder was teaching covert agents - newspaper
Former Security Police of Latvia directorate ex-head becomes gets political party top post
Russian Federal Security Service reported about its achievements: 2.5 tons of explosives withdrawn in Southern Russia this year
The Russian security services from the beginning of the year have withdrawn from illegal circulation in the south of Russia 527 units of small arms, more than 2.5 tons of an explosive substance and 180 blasting cartridges, news agency RIA Novosti reports, referring to the report at the 20th session of the National Anti-terrorism Committee by its chairman and the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia Alexander Bortnikov.
"According to operative staffs in the subjects of the Russian Federation, in the Southern
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Federal District only from the beginning of this year, in the course of operative and search and fighting undertakings more than 260 bases [of militants] and hiding places have been revealed and destroyed", the FSB head marked.
According to Bortnikov, one of the reasons of illegal circulation of weapons in Russia is its contraband from the adjacent states. So, first of all, it is necessary to block the channels of contraband of the trophy weapons that have remained in South Ossetia and Abkhazia after the conflict in August of the last year, news agency Interfax reports.
"Recently the security services have carried out a number of operations as a result of which activity of the organized crime groups, which tried to deliver to North Caucasian region more than 170 units of small arms from the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has been neutralized", the FSB head specified.
Bortnikov stressed that last months in the territory of Dagestan, Ingushetia and in the Chechen Republic splash in armed attacks on employees of law enforcement bodies has been noted.
In this context, the FSB chief reminded that the President of the Russian Federation at the Security Council meeting in Makhachkala gave a directive to the National Anti-terrorism Committee and state authorities bodies to more actively combat terrorist actvity and gangsterism in the North Caucasian region.
Russian Federal Security Service members got number of high state awards for two Chechen campaigns
According to the Moscow-based weekly Sovershenno Sekretno, the Russian Defense Ministry presented 559 soldiers and officers with the title Hero of the Russian Federation between 1992 and the end of 2008. Of these, 322 were awarded to participants in the army’s role in the two campaigns in the Chechen Republic. 322 Heroes of the Russian Federation in Chechnya is nearly four times as many Heroes of the Soviet Union (85) that Moscow handed out in Afghanistan, the paper marks.
In addition to those in the military receiving this distinction, personnel from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and a few other state agencies also were named Heroes of the Russian Federation. Like the military until December 2008, few of these organizations have provided exact numbers. The FSB has never given them out, but the number of Heroes there must exceed 40, the weekly said, given that the names of 34 of them are known.
Some of the awards went to officials like FSB deputy director Vladimir Pronichev who was named a Hero of the Russian Federation for his role during the Nord-Ost terrorist incident, a case where as weekly Sovershenno Sekretno recalls, 129 of the 130 who died were victims of the use of lethal gas by people under his command.
The general inflation in the number of medals the Russian authorities have handed out is obvious, according to the article, but the exact numbers are impossible to check given that information about awards given even during the first Chechen campaign (1995-96) remain inaccessible to investigators, with officials refusing all requests for their release.
Wife of arrested Kazakhstan’s uranium company president prevented from leaving country
Dzhamilya Dzhakisheva, the spouse of the arrested president of Kazakhstan's uranium producing giant, Kazatomprom, was prevented from leaving Kazakhstan on June 13, Kazakh Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
Dzhakisheva was on her way to the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, to visit her parents, but Kazakh border guards did not allow her to leave the Kazakh-Kyrgyz border, radio expands. She said she had not been allowed to cross the border due to the arrest of her husband Mukhtar Dzhakishev who along with his associates was detained by the Kazakh National Security Committee (KNB) last month, charged with financial mismanagement and theft.
Radio added in the report that Dzhakisheva had received threats from the KNB agents who urged her "not to make too much noise regarding her husband's arrest."
Former Security Police of Latvia directorate ex-head becomes gets political party top post
The former chief of the Security Police (DP) directorate of the second largest Latvian city of Daugavpils and nearby area, Juris Livcans, nowadays a member of the Harmony Centre party, has been elected a member of Daugavpils regional assembly, online paper Kompromat.lv reports.
The informed media reminds that some day Livcans was investigating the criminal case against local activists of the Russian National Bolshevik Party (NBP) branch. The NBP members alleged that Livcans had beaten and torturing them, and stole their property (a SIM-card of a cellular phone). Livcans left the Security Police in December, 2004, Kompromat.lv expands.
In August, 2008, Livcans has become the deputy head of the Harmony Centre party Daugavpils branch. The online paper points out that Livcans got the party post by an easy pitch of the Harmony Centre party parliament member Alexander Mirsky. Probably, moving out Livcans into the party hierarchy, Mirsky in such a strange manner has been thanking the Security Police which in the end has ruined Mirsky’s business opponent Yevgeny Vladimirov, though, already by then when Livcans did not work with the security service, the website comments.
Missing Polish military intelligence coder was teaching covert agents - newspaper
Knowledge possessed by the missing Polish military intelligence officer Stefan Zielonka is dangerous for the Polish agents operating abroad, daily Dziennik reports.
The paper learned that over the years Zielonka was teaching illegals, the officers who left under the cover for abroad, for instance, how to send coded reports to their headquarters. He knows their faces, identities and countries where they have been sent to.
The newspaper established knowledge possessed by Zielonka was not limited only by the knowledge of codes and codes used by the service. This information has been confirmed by several independent sources in the military intelligence service.
The illegals is an elite of any intelligence service; spy networks have been established abroad which normally operate without coming into contact with the members of the secret service stations. Their work is subject to much greater danger as they are not protected by diplomatic immunity.
Meanwhile The New Poland Express reports that the wife of Stefan Zielonka also has reportedly gone missing. “We know she works for the Army. Almost certainly, she worked also for the intelligence. Most probably someone there made a decision to hide her as well as their child,” a police spokesperson told daily Dziennik. According to the newspaper, neither the police, nor the Army are any closer to finding Zielonka.
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