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Novaya Gazeta blames Russian secret services
Publication time: 16 January 2007, 12:02
Novaya Gazeta blames Russian secret services, army special-task troops on involvement in death squads

In a front-page article of the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta under the title Spare Agencies, the paper’s observer Igor Korolkov comes to conclusion that former and currently operating servicemen of the Russian security services, Armed Forces and the Ministry of Interior have been involved in fulfilment of blatant acts of terrorism and murders during last fifteen years. The weekly publishes excerpts from a secret document where the death squads officially established and described possibility of terror acts against enemy.

Korolkov results examples of some criminal cases which, in his opinion, confirm an existence of a certain uniform "strategic plan" that unites tens the acts of terrorism, accomplished in the territory of Russia and abroad. He also writes that in the middle of the 1990s he happened to collide with several "gangs under cover", supervised by operating officers of the Main Intelligence Service (GRU) and Main Directorate for Struggle Against Organized Crime of the Interior Ministry divisions.

Also, according to the journalist, the 45-th regiment of the Airborne Troops, belonging to the GRU, that appeared in the murder case of former Novaya Gazeta investigative journalist Dmitry Kholodov, had been engaged in custom-made murders. Korolkov also marks that former staff members of the KGB-FSB had been involved in a series of acts of terrorism in Moscow, since the middle of the 1990s.

Korolkov publishes document that is a secret instruction letter, x-copies of its ‘original’, to be more exact. It is affirmed in it that former and currently operating servicemen of Russia’s security forces are going to create "a wide secret-service network" and "special troops" "to eliminate leaders and active members of terrorist organizations, spying agencies and subversive groups working inside who are openly in confrontation with the Federal Government”. “Organized crime and terror is become dangerous for the government. It is necessary to have a department that has real possibility to solve problems using agents and spy connections.”

In fact, writes Korolkov, security forces in Russia have legal base bypassing Constitution and thought its semi-legal forces become one of the enforcement tool in government hands. The journalist marks that he had published the "instruction" in the Moscow News weekly even back in 2002. In the past high profile killings there is little progress in investigating cases. However "the events connected with the murder of our colleague Anna Politkovskaya, the former Lieutenant-Colonel of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko, attempt of Yegor Gaydar’s poisoning, have forced to address again to this document and to comprehend it in a new manner”. Moreover, Korolkov marks that this "document" has been ostensibly signed by the head of the Main Directorate for Struggle Against Organized Crime of the Interior Ministry, Hero of Russia, Colonel Seliverstov, who had denied this information.

Proceeding from all aforesaid, the observer of the Novaya Gazeta makes an unequivocal conclusion that "a complete system formed by security services for extrajudicial punishments is built in the country”.

In past former Russian security service officer Mikhail Trepashkin said in a letter from prison that he had warned former agent Alexander Litvinenko years ago that the KGB’s main successor agency had formed a death squadron to kill him and other Kremlin foes.
Source: AxisGlobe
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2007/01/16/7184.shtml