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Former Top Russian Intelligence Official Gunned Down in Moscow
AP ^ | Apr 10, 2005

Posted on 04/10/2005 10:55:52 AM PDT by nuconvert

Former Top Russian Intelligence Official Gunned Down in Moscow

The Associated Press

Apr 10, 2005

MOSCOW (AP) - Assailants wielding automatic weapons from a passing car gunned down a former top Russian intelligence official while he drove on a Moscow street Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. Col. Gen. Anatoly Trofimov, former deputy chief of the Federal Security Service under President Boris Yeltsin, was shot in his sport utility vehicle around 7:30 p.m. on a northern street, the Interfax news agency reported. He died on the scene.

The assailants fired from a small car, the ITAR-Tass news agency said. A woman believed to be Trofimov's wife was in the car and was seriously wounded and hospitalized, news agencies said.

Ekho Moskvyi radio said the attack may have been a contract killing related to unidentified business deals.

A duty officer at the Federal Security Service headquarters could not confirm the report, and phone calls to the police went unanswered Sunday evening.

Trofimov, who also served as head of the Moscow branch of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, was fired by Yeltsin in 1997 following an examination by federal accountants for "gross violations and flaws in his work."

The Federal Security Service is the main successor agency to the KGB.

Top Russian business and political leaders routinely are attacked, often as a part of shady business deals. Last month, Anatoly Chubais, the head of the state-controlled Unified Energy Systems power grid, was ambushed by assailants, who detonated a bomb and raked his armored car with automatic weapons fire as he was being driven to work just outside Moscow.

Last summer, the editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition, Paul Klebnikov, was gunned down outside the magazine's offices


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: assassination; moscow; murder; putinsbuttboys; russia; trofimov; vladtheimploder
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To: spanalot

A little hint: Grzegorz 246 represents the EU and it's wonderful philosophies. He flat out refuses, as a Pole, to swear alliegence to a Free, Democratic, Independent and Sovereign Poland, even to other Poles. He is also obsessed with Putin photos and photos of dead bodies.


61 posted on 04/12/2005 7:51:28 PM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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To: Grannyx4

I hope you didn't think I was being disrespectful! ==

You don't Granny. Being on FR for few years I heard already many thing:). I very rare see some one disrespectful here.
I have my honor to say that here even very vehement opponents very rarery speak something offending. Mostly people just like to discuss things and respect opponents.
I think it is very important advantage of this forum.

BTW I'm russian american of first generation:). SO I'm immigrant. I vocalize russian opinion here since it had to be someone who vocalize it. I know about Russia much so I have to share:).


62 posted on 04/12/2005 10:48:09 PM PDT by RusIvan
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To: spanalot
I don't know, but maybe this will be helpful:
President Putin Worshipped as New Apostle Paul
63 posted on 04/13/2005 7:36:47 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: jb6
Kiss your uncle.




Good boy !
64 posted on 04/13/2005 7:39:39 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

Is that you? Getting publicity to run for the European Commission seats? Good boy.


65 posted on 04/13/2005 7:44:16 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Do you think that some on FR, shall we say, have difficulties criticizing Stalin (or maybe not being able to criticize him at all), as compared with their hatred of the Germans? It seems that way sometimes. The inbalance.


66 posted on 04/13/2005 12:10:35 PM PDT by Bald Eagle777 (Death, oppressive Taxes, and Marxism... the legacy of liberal US Democrats)
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To: nuconvert

was shot in his sport utility vehicle ....ouch. That must hurt.


67 posted on 04/13/2005 12:52:01 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Only two requisites to be a judge. Gray hair to look wise and hemmorhoids to look concerned.)
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To: sergey1973

Sergey,
Ask yourself what most of those people on the list have in common - a link to Berezovskyj (either a former colleague who opposed him, or someone investigating him). NEVER cross that thug.

Artem (Borovik), btw, was on a flight from Moscow to Kiev that crashed on take-off. Rumors on the street when it happened said that the "target" was an oil executive who was on board and ran afoul of the mafia. However, an investigation showed pilot error. Who knows. Artem was well respected and not known to have any enemies.


68 posted on 04/14/2005 2:10:19 PM PDT by Romanov
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To: RusIvan

Privacy could also pertain to "lichnoe delo" Gotta be careful with "individualnoe" - most Moscow hookers call themselves "individualki" i.e., they're independent operators (private so to speak!).

Fun? That teacher is way out of date. You can refer to something being "fun" by saying "prikol" "prikolno" "veselo" "zabavno" etc.


69 posted on 04/14/2005 2:17:27 PM PDT by Romanov
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To: sergey1973

Sergey,
You have doubts that Mafia Dons wouldn't assassinate retired KGB/FSB generals? HA! If he's in the way of their business he's toast. They don't shy away from such kilings - ask Gov. Tsvetkov (gunned down on the New Arbat - I actually walked right past his body), ask Dep. Moscow Mayor Ordzhinikidze (two unsuccessful assassination attempts - linked to Dhzrabrailov), there are others. Common cause - screwing with the wrong mafia (usually from Kavkaz).


70 posted on 04/14/2005 2:23:27 PM PDT by Romanov
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To: Romanov

Well--I'm giving a benefit of a doubt. I'm not ruling out Mafia dons, but I also not ruling out Political motives. Playing Detective -:))))


71 posted on 04/14/2005 3:24:33 PM PDT by sergey1973 (Russian American Political Blogger, Arm Chair Strategist)
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To: Bald Eagle777

Do you think that some on FR, shall we say, have difficulties criticizing Stalin (or maybe not being able to criticize him at all), as compared with their hatred of the Germans? ==
Just curious - 'Hatred of Germans' what is it again? Germans hates someone? Who?
I thought germans got beaten in 2 wars and very peaceful now.
Polish beware if it is true then you are first neibor candidate who grabbed german lands:)).


72 posted on 04/15/2005 1:06:35 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: Grannyx4
Or fun. They don't even have a word for fun...

Sure, we don't even exist.

73 posted on 04/15/2005 4:12:07 AM PDT by K. Smirnov (Do not let the sands of time get into your lunch)
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To: K. Smirnov

If you had read some of the other posts, you would have seen that the person who told me that the Russians have no word for fun in the American sense of the word was a professor from Moscow University, who started studying English in her native city (Moska) when she was eight years old. She has lived in the US for at least 12 years and teaches Russian to American College students. I have since checked with a linguist friend of mine and the two words put forth by other Russians don't have the same idea of 'fun' in the American sense. I'm sure there are plenty of Russian words that will not translate into English because they are unique to the Russian experience. I'm sorry that my attempt at humor fell so flat. I guess cross-cultural humor is difficult if not impossible.


74 posted on 04/15/2005 6:50:20 AM PDT by Vor Lady
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To: Grannyx4
That partly proves your point. Kidding. Actually my post was a joke, I guess a lame one. As to the cross-cultural humour - it is very possible - my own experience from living 5 years abroad. Just do not be deadly serious.

:)

75 posted on 04/15/2005 11:16:16 AM PDT by K. Smirnov (Do not let the sands of time get into your lunch)
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To: K. Smirnov

My apologies. I thought you were being sarcastic, thinking I was attacking Russians. I am never deadly serious...well never unless I'm driving. :)


76 posted on 04/15/2005 12:03:57 PM PDT by Vor Lady
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