The True Role of the FSB in the Ukrainian Crisis

The Moscow Times ^ | Apr. 15 2014 18:02 | Andrei Soldatov

[WhiskeyX]

The intrigue is growing over the Federal Security Service's involvement in Ukraine. On April 11, Ukraine's Deputy Prosecutor General said there was no evidence implicating the FSB in events on Maidan Square. At the same time, it is officially confirmed that FSB generals visited Kiev on Feb. 20 to 21. Recall that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry sent a note to Moscow on April 4 demanding to know why FSB Colonel General Sergei Beseda visited Kiev on Feb. 20 and 21, and that the very next day Interfax cited a source in Russian intelligence confirming that visit.

The answer as to why Beseda was in Kiev with his entourage could be key to understanding the role of Russia's intelligence agencies in the current crisis and to the Kremlin's entire strategy in Ukraine.

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As a result, Belarussian observers accused the FSB of trying to influence the political situation prior to that country's presidential elections in 2003. In 2004, FSB generals visited Sukhumi, Abkhazia to support the pro-Moscow candidates in their presidential race and, according to news reports from Chisinau, FSB generals personally worked with local Moldovan politicians in the mid-2000s. It also came to light four years ago that FSB intelligence services are actively involved in Ukraine. As an example, in 2010 a disaffected chekist published FSB documents on the Lubyanskayapravda.com website he created. That site was scuttled only two weeks later, but among the documents it revealed was a report on a Ukrainian document the FSB had forged with the intention of misleading the government of Turkmenistan and spoiling a gas deal between Kiev and Ashkhabad.

[WhiskeyX]

Further evidence of the decades long efforts by Russian intelligence services to influence and subvert presidential elections in the Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, and the recent and direct high level FSB command intervention in Ukrainian political affairs prior to the mass murders of Ukrainian political protestors involving covert Russian military-police-intelligence participation in the sniper attacks.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks WhiskeyX.

[AdmSmith]

Putin is working for

[WhiskeyX]

Actually, you have the wrong flag in this case. See the Wikipedia article about Aleksandr Dugin and note the National Bolshevism flag they are using. This is the political philosophy Putin is effectively implementing, regardless of any of Putin’s statements may or may not appear to the contrary.

[AdmSmith]

You are right about the ideology, but in reality it is isomorphic with USSR 2.0. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141080/anton-barbashin-and-hannah-thoburn/putins-brain