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Jul. 3rd, 2006 | 10:16 am
Russian president to be entitled to use secret services outside his country by Russian parliament
The Council of Federation at its session on July, 7 will adopt the decision, giving to the president of Russia the termless rights to use secret services, including GRU (Main Intelligence Department; military intelligence) outside the territory of the Russian Federation for protection of interests of Russia and for counteraction to the international terrorism. It was declared on Friday by Sergey Mironov, the Speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the RIAN news agency says. As AIA already reported, earlier this week Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country's security service to hunt down and "destroy" those responsible for the slaying of four employees of the Russian Embassy in Iraq. The new move actually means authorizing an operation similar to hunting by the Israeli Mossad of the grouping «Black September» after the act of terrorism in Munich in 1972. Moscow’s decision has been hardly made under influence of emotions. At least the legislative base has been prepared in advance; the bill on which “the special-task force divisions of the FSB under the decision of the president can be applied against terrorists and their bases being outside the Russian Federation to suppression of the threat” is already approved in the first reading. According to Russian intelligence veteran Georgy Kobaladze, this marks “the beginning of an absolutely new stage of struggle against the main threat of century in territory of our country”. However, it would be wrong to approve that Soviet/Russian secret services has never accomplished similar special tasks abroad in the past. The Soviet Union's secret services had a storied history of carrying out high-profile assassinations. Soviet secret police agent killed one of the leaders of Russian revolution, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico City in 1940. Under direction of General Pavel Sudoplatov, chief of the 4th department of the People's Commissariat of Interior, a number of special actions on liquidation of enemies of the Soviet state during the WWII and after it has been carried out. In 1959, Stepan Bandera, the most prominent leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was poisoned at the behest of the KGB. The notorious KGB also assisted agents of the Bulgarian secret police in killing Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in September 1978 in London. And its successor, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), has inherited the legacy of the KGB. In December, 1979 a special-task unit was sent to Afghanistan to remove dictator Hafizulla Amin. Most recently, Russian intelligence agents have been tied to the killing of former Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev in Qatar in February 2004. And three other Chechen separatist presidents - Dzhokhar Dudayev, Aslan Maskhadov, and Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev - were also killed with the participance of the Russian secret services.
Russian secret services have full right to protect the citizens outside the country - Alkhanov
The president of Chechen Republic, Alu Alkhanov, has expressed full support to the announcement of the leadership of the FSB of Russia to use a wide spectrum of measures, “all power, all opportunities, including financial resources” for exposing and punishing the criminals who have murdered the Russian citizens in Iraq. Alkhanov talked with the Interfax agency in Moscow on Friday. Any terrorist organizations should know that Russia never under no circumstances would leave any case of capture of hostages and murder of compatriots without due punishment, noted Alkhanov. He also added that the payment of compensation for the information on terrorists in due time had promoted successful carrying out of special actions on liquidation of some militant leaders in North Caucasus.