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Russian President orders immediate response to Ingush president assassination attempt
Russian Federal Security Service officers run over by truck with drunk servicemen
Abkhazia allocated land to Russian Federation’s FSB Border Guard Service
Security Service joined All-Ukrainian Civil Action Grandeur of Ukrainian Flag
Ex-Romanian Communist intelligence chief calls Iranian security service generals to defend people
Former Serb Public Security Chief testifies in trial via video link from the Hague
Former Prime Minister of Slovenia summoned to hearing, suspected of revealing classified data
Crime groups use official checkpoints to move their drugs, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security admit
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| Dmitry Medvedev in Sochi |
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Russian President orders immediate response to Ingush president assassination attempt
In connection with the assassination attempt of the President of Russia’s Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for immediate “correct response” against the militants operating in Russia's North Caucasus. Meeting with Russia's Security Council in Sochi, he made it clear solutions are needed, news agency ITAR-TASS reports.
“I’ve instructed the chief of the Security Service, the Interior Minister, and the Prosecutor General to ensure law and order in the republic and to investigate this case,” TV channel Russia Today showed the President’s quotation.
Medvedev then let the Security Council officials present their reports on what has been done and what the main theories are. He was also interested in what was being done next in response to the attack in Ingushetia, news agencies are reporting. The Russian security services and law enforcement bodies should not ceremony with terrorists in North Caucasus, Medvedev emphasized and asked the Security Council members to report how many insurgents have been destroyed lately. He noted that had discussed this issue with the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov has promised within the nearest month to destroy all leaders of militants in the territory of republic, Interfax reports. He said in interview to the Rossiya TV channel that he coordinated this term with the Ministry of Interior of the Russian Federation.
The chairmen of the State Duma and Council of Federation, Boris Gryzlov and Sergei Mironov, the head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, Minister of Interior Rashid Nurgaliyev, the Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, the Foreign Intelligence Service chief Mikhail Fradkov, the General Prosecutor Yury Chaika and plenipotentiary of the President in Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov were present at the meeting.
Meanwhile online paper Kavkaz Center reported it had received an e-mail signed by the command of the shakhid battalion Riyadus Salikhiyn alleging that the Mojaheds of this division have carried out the operation against the President of Ingushetia.
Abkhazia allocated land to Russian Federation’s FSB
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Abkhazia on map |
Border Guard Service
The separatist parliament of Abkhazia has „allowed" to transfer some hectares of the land in urgent using to the Russian Federal Security Service’s Border Guard Service in Abkhazia, news agency RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier the leader of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh declared that the Russian military bases would stay in the territory of republic for 49 years.
The Russian border guards will receive land in Gali area (Pichori, Pakhulani and Taghiloni), 9.9 hectares in total. In Gudaut area they will be given 0.7 hectares of land in the village of Khypsta.
The land has been given for the term of operating duration of the agreement between the Russian Federation and Abkhazia on joint efforts in border protection. The document which was signed on April 30, provides operation of the Border Guard Service directorate under control of he Russian Federation in the territory of Abkhazia until the separatist regime will not create its own bodies of border protection. Russia has concluded a similar agreement with South Ossetia, too.
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Russian Federal Security Service officers run over by truck with drunk servicemen
In one of the Russian army divisions located in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania at the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, drunk contracted servicemen have run over three officers of the Russian Federal Security Service, daily Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) reports.
The incident has occurred already last week. Excited servicemen of the 19th Vladikavkaz division of the 58-th Russian army, billeted nearby to the former staff of peacemakers, have decided to buy vodka. They took a Urals truck to go for the alcoholic drink and coming back, did not cope with driving and had driven into the tents where security officers were sleeping. As a result a Lieutenant-Colonel and two senior lieutenants of the FSB were killed.
The military expert of online paper Utro, Oleg Petrovsky, marks that with location of the Russian military bases in South Ossetia and Abkhazia many problems have appeared there and the main problems is "poor equipment and quality of personnel".
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Security Service joined All-Ukrainian Civil Action Grandeur of Ukrainian Flag
The officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Special Operations Centre fixed Ukrainian flag of 54 m2 in size on one of the most gorgeous mountains of Laspi (the Crimea) - Iliyas-Kaya - at the height of 600 meters, online paper ForUm reports, referring to the SBU press service.
The action Grandeur of Ukrainian Flag started in Sevastopol and has gone through all the cities and comes to an end on the Day of Ukrainian Constitution, today.
The event was initiated by the activists of civil NGO’s and is to promote patriotism, ForUm marks.
Ex-Romanian Communist intelligence chief calls Iranian security service generals to defend people
Ioan Mihai Pacepa, the former Romanian Communist intelligence chief, has addressed an open letter to the the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, the Pasdaran, Generals in Iran, urging them to follow his example and defend the people, not the "tyrant", comparing the current Iranian regime with the Romanian Communist regime led by Nicolae Ceausescu, news agency HotNews reports.
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| Pacepa (L), Ceausescu (R) |
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In the letter published in The American Spectator, Pacepa compares the events in December 1989 from Romania, the protest against the dictator couple of Ceausescus, with the social unrest currently unfolding in Iran against the "Hitler-style dictator". He marks that "like Ahmadinejad, Ceausescu also ordered his security forces to open fire against the population". The former spymaster recalled that on Christmas day in 1989, "Ceausescu was executed for genocide by his own people".
Ion Mihai Pacepa who has written an autobiographical book entitled Red Horizons.
Pacepa was head of Romanian Secret Services during the Communist era, though, he played a double role, spying for the Americans as well, news agency expands. When the General realised that the Romanian and Soviet intelligence had discovered him, he escaped to the United States, where he presently lives.
Romania's Communist regime condemned Pacepa to death for high treason. After the Romanian Revolution in 1989, pressured by the United States, the Romanian authorities cancelled the death sentence, HotNews explains.
Former Serb Public Security Chief testifies in trial via video link from the Hague
The former Serb Public Security Chief Vlastimir Djordjevic has brought to an end the evidence procedure in a murder trial, giving his testimony via video channel from the Hague, radio B92 reports. Djordjevic is in the Hague awaiting trial for crimes committed in Kosovo, B92 explains.
Djordjevic denied involvement in the murder of the three Kosovo Liberation Army members, stating that he had only been carrying out the orders of Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic to transfer the three Bytyqis brothers, U.S. citizens of Albanian descent, in July 1999, from prison in Prokuplje to Petrovo Selo, where the Special Police Unit training centre was located.
The former public security chief said he had found out about the brothers’ murders and interment in a mass grave though the media. During his testimony, he tied Police General Obrad Stevanovic to the police unit believed to have been responsible for murdering the Bytyqis, B92 marks.
Former Prime Minister of Slovenia summoned to hearing, suspected of revealing classified data
The former Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Jansa has been summoned to a criminal police hearing presumably concerning his public disclosure in February of a statement by Interior Minister Katarina Kresal regarding the border with Croatia. Jansa, currently the chairman of
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Janez Jansa |
the biggest opposition party, the Democrats (SDS), Jansa is suspected of disclosing classified information, news agency STA reports.
The SDS calls the summons “shocking, similar to the accusations of 21 years ago,” as it has moreover drawn parallels to the arrest of Jansa in 1988 by the Yugoslav secret service UDBA over his alleged publication of a confidential report.
The coalition is abusing the law enforcement for political purposes, Jansa told private broadcaster POP TV this week.
Looking at Jansa's assertion that the incumbent government is abusing law enforcement to persecute the members of his former cabinet, weekly Mladina says in its editorial that Jansa has once again managed to turn things upside down.
Prime Minister Borut Pahor rejected the accusation by his predecessor Jansa that the coalition is abusing the law enforcement for political purposes. The accusation is harsh, but "those who bear responsibility for leading the country have to withstand them, even if they are unfounded", Pahor told private broadcaster POP TV.
Crime groups use official checkpoints to move their drugs, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security admit
Organized crime groups now are focusing on using official checkpoints to move their drugs, McClatchy Newspapers reports, referring to Davlat Zarifov, a senior official at the Tajikistan State Committee for National Security who spoke at a recent meeting of Central Asian counter-narcotics officers.
A peculiar fact is that a US-funded span linking Afghanistan and Tajikistan which was meant to improve legitimate trade benefits drug traffickers has paved the way for drug traffickers to transport larger loads of Afghan heroin and opium to Central Asia and beyond to Russia and Western Europe.
Zarifov marked that the criminal activity had been especially high through the Tajik-Afghan bridge on the Panj River. Even officials admit that some civil servants in Tajikistan are corrupt and agree that people involved with the drug business know the guards and pay them. The border guards even carry bags with drugs over the border, according to some interviewed persons. One Western diplomat in Dushanbe is cited by McClatchy Newspapers who says at the airport there are bags of heroin going through unchecked.
The Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security took control of border enforcement in 2007 and almost immediately barred the country's Interior Ministry and drug control agency from access to the border region.
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