The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

September 18, 2016 admin

The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

Irina Borogan

Language: English

Pages: 318

ISBN: 1610390555

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub

The security services have played a central—and often mysterious—role at key turning points in Russia during the tumultuous years following the Soviet collapse: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan school massacre. In this riveting investigation, two intrepid journalists penetrate the secret world of the FSB and illustrate how the security services have evolved into a ruthless, violently powerful force that is inextricably woven into modern Russia’s fundamental makeup, and has become more shadowy than its predecessor, the Soviet KGB.

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biggest spy controversy in that country, when in 1996 the prime minister was accused of spying for Russia and was forced to resign. Yakimishen was identified in the Polish media as the source of information about the prime minister’s involvement with Russia. According to Russian law, secret service officers are not permitted to sit on juries. In the case of Sutyagin’s trial, jurors were polled about past work experiences and were dismissed if they listed any involvement with law enforcement or

Under Russian law, public utterances inciting racial, social, or other forms of hate are considered extremism—that is, words, not actions. Yet the Interior Ministry’s official records suggest that extremism is not nearly as big a problem as organized crime. Official data from the Interior Ministry’s Main Information Analysis Center for 2008 show 36,601 incidents that were investigated involving organized criminal groups, but only 460 cases of extremism were registered.5 In the campaign against

Moscow State University, and the Academy of the General Staff. (D-6 was designed to save the Kremlin’s inhabitants in case of attack.)6 Mikhailov admitted to Borogan that his unauthorized visits to areas so close to the most sensitive underground facilities in Russia meant that he was subject to constant pressure from the secret services. Mikhailov told Borogan that the Federal Protective Service, responsible for the safety of the president, had become his main persecutor. He was often detained,

storming of the Dubrovka theater a victory, hoping to stave off the next calamity. But when the next attack occurred two years later at the Beslan school, the security service leadership utterly failed to take decisive action—indeed, failed to even arrive at the scene. While the FSB insisted that the conflict in Chechnya was inflamed and supported by hostile foreign forces, in truth, the Chechens’ most damaging tactics were conceived of by Chechen warlords. Russia’s security services appear to

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