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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
VLADIVOSTOK, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russian customs officers in the country's Far Eastern Primorye Territory have detained a man over the illegal poaching of 1,850 valuable sea cucumbers, the FSB B...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has terminated the activities of 120 terrorist and extremist organizations this year, Russia's president said on Tu...
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1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart Over the past several months we have written quite a bit about the Russian resurgence. This discussion predates Russia’s military action in Georgia. Indeed, we have discussed the revival of Russian power since at least 2005, the implications of the FSB’s return since April and the potential return of the [...]
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Moscow - Russia's FSB intelligence agency said Wednesday 10 rebel gunmen were killed in an early morning shoot-out in the Caucasus republic of Dagestan. One security agent died and another was injured...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
MOSCOW, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - More than 10 million illegal immigrants are currently residing in Russia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday. Maj.-Gen. Valentin Letunovsky, who hea...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Maj.-Gen. Valentin Letunovsky, who heads the FSB's border service, said: "Illegal migration is an extremely profitable business. According to expert data, revenue from transporting illegal migrants is equal to two thirds of revenue from the drug business. The damage this inflicts on the country's economy totals 450 billion rubles ($17.6 billion)."
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A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
In a sign that Russia’s special services may be planning acts of violence on Russian soil which can then be conveniently blamed on Georgians, Lenta.ru reports the head of Russia’s FSB as warning that “Georgian special services” are planning “terrorist acts” [terakty] in Russia’s Southern Federal District. This method of incrimination was used quite widely [...]
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Posted on: Thursday, 14 August 2008, 09:00 CDT The Russian FSB has given details of the exposure and arrest of what it describes as a network of Georgian intelligence agents operating on Russian terr...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
What Russia and America are really doing in Georgia and who set the trap? Vladimir Putin and his thuggish FSB pals or Dick Cheney and his equally unflappable neocon friends? Georgia's decision to seize large parts of Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, on the evening of 7 August was a disastrous political miscalculation, even in an era that is increasingly defined by...
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The Duck of Minerva (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The FSB is claiming that they've captured nine Georgia "special service" agents who were "plotting terrorist attacks" inside Russia. More later.
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
"The blast went off around three metres from the water. Russia's internal security agency, the FSB and local prosecutors are trying to determine the cause of the blast. "The beach is more popular aro...
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Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
- Retired General Ivashov: Ex-FSB/KGB Chief Patrushev’s July 30-31 Visit to Cuba Included Discussions on Renewing Russia's Military Presence on Island; Soviet Naval Port in Vietnam May Be Reactivated - Russian Ambassador to Minsk: Kremlin Brass Seriously Considering Deployment of Bombers and Iskander Missiles in Belarus - Russian Air Force to Hold Joint War Game with Belarus, Multi-Branch Exercise...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Information Policy reports that the Russian government is creating a special agency, based on Federal Security Service (FSB) Internet resources, to monitor and analyse contents published on the Internet.
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Information Policy (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
The Russian Federal Agency on Information Technologies (Rosinformtekhnologii) has defined structure of lots for accommodation of orders for performance of works within the framework of realization of the federal program Electronic Russia for 2008, news agency Prime-TASS reports. Among the...