Woman hospitalized in Moscow psychiatric clinic for exposing militarization of Russian government

It is in Russian but i strongly suggest that you read it with the help of http://translate.google.com/translate_t#

She explains that Russia basically ruled by GRU of General Staff which is highest military intelligence body in Russia.

It is The most disturbing news coming from a very high level expert in russian military affairs.

And she was badly punished for that. In my opinion it is a pure miracle that she is still alive. -------------------------------------------

clinic having been got into it in a bandit’s way, by force and treated (by injections and pills) against my wish, protests, claims, statements and the existing laws, not saying about the international standards. Force structures burst into my flat on May 28, broke the locks, called the ambulance, broke off hands and demanded not to shout so that to get into clinic instead of prison.

Also they inquired about my intentions ‘to ask for help Americans’, what I had discussed a couple of hours earlier with my Catholic priest by home phone.

That was a clinic number 3, by the name Gilyarovskiy, window-to-window with Matrosskaya Tishina prison, where Soviet dissidents were kept.

3 hours in the receptions the doctors refused to accept me having testified NO psychiatric disease and NO points in the law which allowed them powerful treatment. They said to Victor and ambulance crew: ‘You should know that your wife is absolutely mentally healthy. Stress and nervousness are not the enough reasons to hospitalize her’. But brigade was corrupted and had the ORDER from the chief psychiatrist of the Moscow city, so in 3 hours they had forced the reception to accept me.

Earlier that day we visited the toxicology department of the Sklifosofskogo Institute together with Victor with the aim to give blood tests for heavy metals (because of ecology troubles in our flat). Also I asked them to check Victor for narcotics, what was suggested by the expert from the Interior ministry investigation center who had explored our flat.

When I occasionally approached to the doctors’ room in Sklifosofskogo I heard their negotiations with the chief municipal psychiatrist with demand to arrange somehow my hospitalization. I run away at home and locked the doors. A couple of hours later Victor with militia came up, broke the door, took off all the locks, rushed into my flat, called the ambulance, broke off my hands, demanded not to shout and got me to the clinic. They had prescriptions from the chief municipal psychiatrist.

However that was NOT enough for hospitalization, and the reception of the clinic realized that that was the ORDER with political background. They, as well as the doctors in the department number 8 for violences (!), where they located me, realized: if they don’t eliminate me - so early or later I would come out – I could sue them.

Lucky release occasionally happened after my persistent negotiations with the doctors, wily tactics and fears of the doctors to be charged for illegal detaining and health damage (including spine problems caused by stress and long immobility). Victor’s interview to BBC may have made contribution.

La Roche pharmaceutical company, where my cousin’s husband works, also interfered and called the head of the 8 department many times.

Some of my foreign contacts, including diplomats, called to Victor and started to look for me, as I had disappeared from the communications.

I was provided in clinic NO diagnosis and NO documents. Chief of the department Krylova Nelli Sergueevna said she ‘was afraid that I would file a suit against her’, so she preferred – in illegal way – to give no papers.

However all tests showed 'excellent memory, healthy mentality and excellent intellectual training and full social adequacy'.

I have always been more or less nervous, stressed (because of marriage discomfort, threats to get me into psychiatric clinic) but always mentally healthy.

Meanwhile the search was done in my flat in my absence. Many precious documents and useful papers were stolen, including technical guides to communication devices (mobiles, smart phone device at home), helpful computer options guide, some memorabilia – papers, invitations from foreign diplomats, and also things left from my father’s work. Things, papers, belongings were intermixed.

Until I get substantial support – from foreign and Russian institutions – many dangers and risks remain. I am restricted in work and getting out.

Could you refer me to an unbiased lawyer to talk out situation, elaborate behavior line, and compile documents? I would be glad to share the story’s details and ask for help.

Could you bring us together with people in Moscow who are able to facilitate that?

Could you consider my interview with any European or American TV/radio station or newspaper? That may improve my personal security situation in the time-being.

Nothing good links me with Russia, so I currently look around for leaving to Europe or America as soon as possible. I would be happy to suggest all my experience, knowledge in the fight against human rights violations, and - now certified - ‘excellent mental abilities’ to get any job in any geographic location.

Independent medical examination outside Russia also remains an urgent need, especially after awful conditions and horror treatment in the Soviet-type psychiatric clinic.

I attach my detailed CV so that you could provide possible employer with glimpse of my activity and capacities.

I analyze my situation and still can not be completely sure whether the Russian state machine suppresses me for journalism and contacts with foreigners (that sounds regularly) or squeezes from the expensive property. Russian militaries, i.e. bandits, are very much involved into illegal deals with real estate. Or the flat is a tool to eliminate us?

They hint that allegedly foreigners are also involved into our elimination from political business.

I am absolutely alone in the whole world. They might feed Victor with drugs, so he is helpless. I was imprisoned on the day when I tried to provide him medical help and tests on narcotics. A couple of days earlier a guy intercepted me near my building apartment block’s entrance and said: ‘When Russian troops stayed in Afghanistan – the drugs traffic went to America. Since Americans stay in Afghanistan – we have all the drugs here in Russia. You will be silly girl if try save those who are fed by narcotics. Useless’.

He also said that my problems come from my contacts with foreigners. That makes the state machine mad.

I was released from the clinic after the chief master demanded and got my promise not to provide medical help to Victor. Victor helped them to get me into clinic and told the doctors that I allegedly threatened him with a pistol (nothing of that kind).

I can’t fully understand which side Victor keeps. Some non-Russian sources may help to verify that. It is crucially important to make further steps. I am going to leave whether I find a job abroad or not.

I could suggest that at some moment Victor could have betrayed me in exchange for his personal safety.

Some evidences in the process of my communications make me think that special services use Victor as a channel to develop contacts with The Baltics and Ukraine. They also have used for a long time my money, flats and other resources to keep ‘the agent and point’ at my expense!

Their miscalculation is that in case of divorce they lose access to all foreign contacts which ale mostly mine – not Victor’s. And they didn’t break me up even in psychiatric clinic. So they will get NOTHING. What they try to bargain now is to threat me with black mark of psychiatric clinic so that Victor manage all my contacts with my full refuse from activity, claiming me incapacitated and turning me into housewife to serve Victor, i.e. kgb or gru intelligence point/agent. That was also one of condition of my release delivered by the chief master of the clinic in our last conversation.

However, they fully realize consequences of getting me to the repressive medicine and Victor’s role in it. Before the day of my release Victor got ALL his documents, clothes and other belongings to his mother’s flat! He (or brigade which had made a search in my apartment in his presence) also stole a big sum of money and refuse to return it.

If only you find somebody who could help, please provide them with my contacts or give me their so that initiative would come from me.

I could take risks to help Victor if only I find some back. To beat the state machine alone is silly – and mentally not healthy.

Symposium: To Kill a Russian Journalist
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 17, 2006

The murder of internationally renowned Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in early October 2006 was yet another troubling sign of Russia’s retreat into its totalitarian past. Today Frontpage Symposium has gathered a distinguished panel of experts to discuss why Anna Politkovskaya was killed and what the tragic loss of her life symbolizes about the direction in which Vladimir Putin’s Russia is heading.

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'PUTIN'S RUSSIA' by Anna Politkovskaya:
http://www.annapolitkovskaya.com/
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Col. Alexander Litvinenko
4 Dec 1962 - 23 Nov 2006

"You may succeed in silencing me but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics have claimed. You have shown yourself to have no respect for life, liberty or any civilised value."

Obituary: Alexander Litvinenko
Times of London, 25 November 2006

On April 23, 2002, Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian secret service, arrived at Heathrow, supposedly on a stopover before flying on to the Caribbean. Claiming that he was being persecuted by the Russian authorities, he sought political asylum.

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was born in 1962 in Voronezh, south of Moscow. After high school and extended service in the Soviet Army (in which his grandfather was an officer), he graduated from the Interior Forces Military Academy, joining the KGB in 1988.

While his early career was in espionage, by 1991 he had made a name for himself in the organised crime and anti-terror divisions. He also worked in the central apparatus, leading co-operation between the KGB, by then renamed the FSB, and the Moscow organised crime police squad. In 1997 he joined one of the FSB’s most secret departments, specialising in the pursuit of criminal organisations, and became its deputy head.

This exemplary career came to an abrupt end on November 18, 1998, when, in a press conference, he accused his FSB superiors of extortion, corruption and illegal assassinations. The accusations were detailed and seemed credible. He was suspended and in March 1999 arrested and held in isolation in the infamous KGB Lefortovo prison.

He was tried and acquitted in November 1999, but immediately rearrested. In 2000 charges were dropped after he promised to stay in Moscow. He and his family lived under intense surveillance and when they heard that further charges were being prepared, they fled. They flew to Turkey and from there to London.

Tried in absentia and sentenced to nine years in prison, Litvinenko found work in Britain as a postman, while his wife taught ballroom dancing. He continued his campaign against his former employers in interviews and books, and contributed anti-Russian material to a Chechen website. At the time of his death he was investigating the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

He is survived by his wife Marina and his two children.

Alexander Litvinenko, former officer of the Russian secret service, was born on December 4, 1962. He died on November 23, 2006, aged 43

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Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian security agent fighting for his life in a UK hospital after allegedly being poisoned, has been a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin since before he became president in 2000.

Mr Litvinenko is thought to have been close to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, another opponent of the Kremlin who was shot dead last month, and said recently he was investigating her murder. It was after being handed documents apparently relating to the case that he was taken ill more than two weeks ago.

But he is perhaps best known for a book in which he alleges that agents co-ordinated the 1999 apartment block bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people. He now appears to have fallen victim to the kind of plots which he wrote about.

Arrest

Mr Litvinenko, 43, first became a security agent under the Soviet-era KGB, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in its later incarnations.

He is reported to have fallen out with Vladimir Putin, then head of the security service, in the late 1990s, after failing in attempts to crack down on corruption within the organisation. In 1998, he first came to prominence by exposing an alleged plot to assassinate the then powerful tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who himself now lives in self-imposed exile in the UK. He was subsequently arrested on charges of abusing his office and spent nine months in a remand centre before being acquitted.

In 1999 he wrote Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within, in which he accused the current Russian security service, the FSB, of carrying out several apartment house bombings in 1999 that killed more than 300 people. The attacks, which Moscow blamed on Chechen rebels, helped swing public opinion behind Russia's second war in the breakaway republic.

Petrol bombs

Complaining of persecution, in 2000 Mr Litvinenko fled to the UK where he sought, and was granted, asylum. But after settling in an unnamed London suburb, the former spy continued to behave as if on the run, constantly changing his contact details. The Times newspaper reported that over the summer someone tried to push a pram loaded with petrol bombs at his front door. Appearing alongside high-profile opponents of President Putin, he has continued to make allegations about his former bosses. Perhaps most notably, he alleged that al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained by the FSB in Dagestan in the years before 9/11.

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Russia and Islam are not Separate:
Why Russia backs Al-Qaeda

By Konstantin Preobrazhensky

Americans generally believe that Russia is afraid of Islamic terrorism as much as the U.S.A. They are reminded of the war in Chechnya, the hostage crisis at the Beslan School in 2004 and at the Moscow Theater in 2002, and of the apartment house blasts in Moscow in 1999, where over 200 people were killed. It is clear that Russians are also targets of terrorism today.

But in all these events, the participation of the FSB, Federal Security Service, inheritor to the KGB, is also clear. Their involvement in the Moscow blasts has been proven by lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin, a former FSB Colonel. For this he was illegally imprisoned, and is now suffering torture and deprivation of medical assistance, from which he is not likely to survive.

A key distinction between Russian and American attitudes towards Islamic terrorism is that while for America terrorism is largely seen as an exterior menace, Russia uses terrorism as an object as a tool of the state for manipulation in and outside the home country. Islamic terrorism is only part of the world of terrorism. Long before Islamic terrorism became a global threat, the KGB had used terrorism to facilitate the victory of world Communism.

This leads to the logical connection between Russian and Islamic terrorism. The late Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London in November, 2006, told me that his former FSB colleagues had trained famous Al-Qaeda terrorists Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Juma Namangoniy during the 1980s and 1990s. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, one of the world's most wanted terrorists, has been responsible for the murder of U.S. nationals outside the United States. Before his death, Juma Namangoniy (Jumabai Hojiyev), a native of Soviet Uzbekistan, was a right-hand man of Osama bin Laden in charge of the Taliban's northern front in Afghanistan.

In 1996, Alexander Litvinenko was responsible for securing the secrecy of Al-Zawahiri's arrival in Russia, who was trained by FSB instructors in Dagestan, Northern Caucasus, in 1996-1997.

At that time, Litvinenko was the Head of the Subdivision for Internationally Wanted Terrorists of the First Department of the Operative-Inquiry Directorate of the FSB Anti-Terrorist Department. He was ordered to undertake the delicate mission of securing Al-Zawahiri from unintentional disclosure by the Russian police. Though Al-Zawahiri had been brought to Russia by the FSB using a false passport, it was still possible for the police to learn about his arrival and report to Moscow for verification. Such a process could disclose Al-Zawahiri as an FSB collaborator.

In order to prevent this, Litvinenko visited a group of the highly placed police officers to notify them in advance. "If you get information about some suspicious Arabs arriving in the Caucasus, please report it to me before informing your leadership", he told them.

Juma Namangoniy was once a student of the Saboteur Training Center of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB in 1989-91. The school was notorious for the international terrorists who matriculated from it. It now belongs to the FSB, and since only KGB staff officers were allowed to study there, Juma Namangoniy's presence clearly suggests that he was much more than a civil collaborator.

Mohammed Atta, the pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, had met with a senior Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague, Czech Republic, five months before the attack. But Iraqi intelligence was just a client of Russia's intelligence service. It brings a new understanding to the fact that President Putin was the first foreign President to call President Bush on 9/11. One may conjecture that he knew in advance what was to happen.

Muslim Name and Communist Heart

Tartars have always been patriotic to Russia. Their independent kingdom was conquered by Russia in the 16th century, but their gentry were allowed to join the Russian upper class and enjoy all its privileges. Even today, many Russian families of noble origin have Tartar origins. Russia has a half-millennium of experience in turning conquered Muslim nations into obedient citizens by bribing their elite.

There are many Soviet Muslims, therefore, who seem to face no conflict of spirit. One can be a Muslim in name only, whose heart belongs to Communism. There have been a lot of such people among Russian Muslims, especially among the Tartars. The Soviet Union has typically preferred to appoint them as ambassadors to Muslim countries. Their Muslim names give them a pass to the local society, but their Communist hearts order them to serve world Communism and not the world of Islam.

In the Soviet period, the highest leadership of the Muslim republics like Uzbekistan were unofficially allowed to practice Islam under the guise of folk rites, even though their Russian colleagues were severely reprimanded for participating in such Christian "rites" as Christmas or Easter. Unlike today, Soviet cartoonists were able to mock Islam as they mocked all other religions and it didn't bring any special reaction.

Muslims of the Uzbek and other Central Asian republics' elite joined the KGB intelligence in order to spy on fellow Muslim countries. In the KGB, I have met a lot of such quasi-Muslim officers.

Russia Grows Muslim

Putin continues the traditional Russian policy of giving privileges to the Muslim elite. Today's Russian Minister of Healthcare, Mikhail Zurabov, is a Chechen. His political agenda includes the total destruction of the Russian healthcare system, looking like revenge for the war in Chechnya. Putin shows no concern over that.

Strategically Russia is surrendering to the Muslim world. The Russian population is declining rapidly, being undermined by 70 years of Communist experiment and the cold indifference of post-communist rulers. Annually, Russia is losing 900 thousand people who are being replaced by Muslims from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Islam is now the second-largest religion in Russia, where it may total up to 28 million adherents. Because of this, Russia was able to join the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 2003.

Russia's great qualitative population change represents both a departure from the past and a strengthening link with it. The synergies between the history of Russia's national policies of terrorism and the radical Islamic terrorism that it is spreading around the world are natural partners that may severely impact on America's own future.

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Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former Lt. Colonel in the KGB who defected to the United States in 1993, is an intelligence expert and specialist on Japan, about which he has written six books. His newest book Russian-American, A New KGB Asset will be published in late 2007. This article was first published by Gerard Group International, Intel Analyses, 31 August 2007.

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