Russian intelligence agencies

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 89. Chapters: Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, GRU officers, Russia intelligence operations, Russian spies, SVR officers, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russian apartment bombings, Illegals Program, Viktor Suvorov, Ignace Poretsky, Mike Hancock, Richard Sorge, Foreign Intelligence Service, Anna Chapman, Active measures, George Koval, Vladislav Surkov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Alexander Gregory Barmine, Walter Krivitsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Igor Gouzenko, Arbi Barayev, Alexander Radó, Ivan Serov, Pavel Sudoplatov, Janis K. BerzinS, Herman Simm, Roman Mashkov, Vicky Peláez, Aleksey Galkin, Stanislav Levchenko, List of deaths related to Russian apartment bombings, Stanislav Lunev, Manfred Stern, Cyberwarfare in Russia, FAPSI, Alexander Ulanovsky, Igor Sechin, Active reserve, Dimitri Floydorovich Sudayev, Ivan Susloparov, Dmitry Kozak, Leopold Trepper, Dmitry Gennadyevich Medvedev, Alfred Tilton, Paul William Hampel, Lubyanka Criminal Group, Dmitri Polyakov, Valentin Markin, Border Security Zone of Russia, Valentin Korabelnikov, Vladimir Alganov, Death of a Dissident, Vympel, Ivan Ilyichev, The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB, Simon Aralov, Edna Patterson, Boris Bukov, Russian Coast Guard, Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, John Stanislaw Kubary, Federal Counterintelligence Service, Bolshoy Dom, Valeri Zentsov, Shigehiro Hagisaki, Yuri Yevgenyevich Ivanov, Filipp Golikov, Yevgeni Ivanov, Ignacy Witczak, Lourdes SIGINT Station, Gorets mutiny, Anatoly Zotov, Alexander Shlyakhturov, Alexander Zaporozhsky. Excerpt: The Russian apartment bombings were a series of explosions that hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk in September 1999, killing 293 people and injuring 651. The explosions occurred in Buynaksk on 4 September, Moscow on 9 and 13 September, and Volgodonsk on 16 September. Several other bombs were defused in Moscow at the time. A similar bomb was found and defused in the Russian city of Ryazan on 23 September 1999. On the next day Federal Security Service Director Nikolai Patrushev announced that the Ryazan incident had been a training exercise. Together with the Invasion of Dagestan launched from Chechnya in August 1999 by Islamist militia led by Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab, the bombings caused the Russian Federation to launch the Second Chechen War. Although on 2 September 1999, the militia commander Ibn Al-Khattab announced that "The mujahideen of Dagestan are going to carry out reprisals in various places across Russia," on 14 September he denied responsibility for the blasts, adding that he was fighting the Russian army, not women and children. An official investigation of the bombings was completed by the Russian Federal Security Service in 2002. According to the investigation and the court ruling that followed, the bombings were organized by Achemez Gochiyaev, who remained at large as of 2010, and ordered by Ibn Al-Khattab and Abu Omar al-Saif, who were later killed. Six other suspects have been convicted by Russian courts. State Duma member Yuri Shchekochikhin filed two motions for a parliamentary investigation of the events, but the motions were rejected by the Duma in March 2000. An independent public commission to investigate the bombings was chaired by Duma deputy Sergei Kovalev. The commission was rendered ineffective because of government refusal to respond to its inquiries. The Commissio...