User:Ilgiz/Allegations of state terrorism by Russia

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Human rights groups and critics accused Russian government and Russian president of state terrorism.

Allegations relating to the wars in Chechnya

Australian journalist

vacuum bombs in Chechnya as state terrorism [1]
.

The Memorial society stated in 2009 that Russia was suffering from state terror.[2]

Alexander Litvinenko poisoning

Main article:
Alexander Litvinenko poisoning

Former KGB operative Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London by poisoning with a radioactive substance. The British Government requested the extradition of chief suspect, but the request was turned down by the Russian government, who said that doing so would be against their constitution.[3] When the story broke, western media immediately pointed its finger at Moscow. First Deputy Press Attaché Dmitry Peskov says the media was "not willing and not ready to dive into details". The Times claimed [4] that a "senior British official was unequivocal. The murder of the former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko was “undeniably state-sponsored terrorism on Moscow’s part. That is the view at the highest levels of the British government”.

Vladimir Putin's aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky commented:

"The excessive number of calculated coincidences between the deaths of people, who defined themselves as the opposition to the Russian authorities, and major international events involving Vladimir Putin is a source of concern. I am far from believing in the conspiracy theory, but, in this case, I think that we are witnessing a well-rehearsed plan of the consistent discrediting of the Russian Federation and its chief. In such cases, the famed '
qui bono'[sic] question has to be asked."[5]

1999 Russian apartment bombings

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Russian apartment bombings

The

Dagestan War, led the country into the Second Chechen War. The five bombings took place in Moscow and two other Russian towns during ten days of September 1999. None of the Chechen field commanders accepted the responsibility for the bombing. Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov
denied involvement of his government.

The bombings had stopped after a controversial episode when a similar bomb was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of

FSB agents who planted the bomb were caught by the local police. This incident was declared to be a "training exercise" by FSB director Nikolai Patrushev
.

Former

Felshtinsky, and political scientist Vladimir Pribylovsky asserted that the bombings were in fact a "false flag" attack perpetrated by the FSB (successor to the KGB) in order to legitimize the resumption of military activities in Chechnya and bring Vladimir Putin and the FSB to power.[8] But security and policy analysts Simon Saradzhyan and Nabi Abdullaev pointed out, that neither Litvinenko nor Felshtinsky have not provided any direct evidence to back up their claims about FSB involvement in the bombings.[9]


An official investigation of the bombings was completed only three years later, in 2002. It was conducted by the

Achemez Gochiyaev - who as of 2007 remained at large.[citation needed
]

The Russian Duma rejected two motions for parliamentary investigation of the Ryazan incident. An independent public commission to investigate the bombings chaired by Duma deputy Sergei Kovalev was rendered ineffective because of government refusal to respond to its inquiries.[citation needed] Two key members of the Kovalev Commission, Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, both Duma members, have since died in apparent assassinations in April 2003 and July 2003 respectively.

The Commission's lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin has been arrested in October 2003 to become one of the better-known political prisoners in Russia.[citation needed]

Viktor Yushchenko poisoning

Russia backed a pro Russian candidate,

Victor Yanukovych, in the Presidential elections in Ukraine in 2004 [10] and was accused of complicity in the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko. Viktor Yushchenko came to power following the Orange Revolution, after mass protests against election results, which were deemed fraudulent, were overturned.[11]

Other cases

Former FSB officer

Aleksander Litvinenko and investigator Mikhail Trepashkin alleged that Moscow theater hostage crisis was directed by a Chechen FSB agent.[12][13] Yulia Latynina and other journalists also accused the FSB of staging many smaller terrorism acts, such as market place bombing in the city of Astrakhan, bus stops bombings in the city of Voronezh, and the blowing up the Moscow-Grozny train,[14][15] whereas innocent people were convicted or killed. Journalist Boris Stomakhin claimed that a bombing in Moscow metro in 2004[16] was probably organized by FSB agents rather than by the unknown man who called the Kavkaz Center and claimed his responsibility.[17] Stomakin was arrested and sentenced to five years of prison for inciting hatred and defamatory statements aimed at groups and persons of particular religious and ethnic background and for promoting violent change of constitutional regime and violation of territorial integrity of Russian Federation (articles 280 and 282 of the Russian Criminal Code).[18]

Many

Doctors Without Borders, and others.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ John Pilger hears Blair echo Mussolini, New Statesman 20 September 2004
  2. ^ On the Killing of Natalia Estemirova, Memorial, July 17, 2009
  3. Russia Today
    Retrieved on March 14, 2008
  4. ^ Litvinenko: clues point to Kremlin The Times Retrieved on March 14, 2008
  5. Information Telegraph Agency of Russia. November 24 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-26. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help
    )
  6. ISBN 1-416-55165-4
  7. ISBN 0-300-09892-8
    .
  8. ^ http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/SatterHouseTestimony2007.pdf
  9. ^ Disruption Escalation of Terror in Russia to Prevent Catashtrophic Attacks
  10. ^ Russia and state-sponsored terrorism in Ukraine retrieved on March 13, 2008
  11. ^ Ukraine's Orange Revolution retrieved on March 13, 2008
  12. 04 June 2003). "Terrorism takes front stage — Russia's theatre siege". SBS. Retrieved 2006-11-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help
    )
  13. 1 December, 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help
    )
  14. ^ Special services stage undermining activities - by Yulia Latynina, Novaya Gazeta, 03 April, 2006.
  15. ^ The marketplace was blown up by photorobots by Vjacheslav Izmailov, Novaya Gazeta, 07 November, 2005.
  16. ^ The Moscow metro bombing - by Roman Kupchinsky, RFE/RL Reports, 12 March, 2004
  17. ^ Pay back for genocide (Russian) - by Boris Stomakhin
  18. ^ ARTICLE 19’S Statement on the conviction of Russian newspaper editor Boris Stomakhin, 23 November 200
  19. ^ Special services of delivery (Russian) - by Vyacheslav Ismailov, Novaya Gazeta 27 January, 2005


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