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Lubyanka Criminal Group (Russian: Лубянская преступная группировка; also translated as The Gang from Lubyanka) is a book by Alexander Litvinenko about the alleged transformation of the Russian Security Services into a criminal and terrorist organization.
- An Attempt to Rein in and Reform The Kgb
- FSB and Soviet KGB: Differences
- Commercialization of The FSB
- The Privileged Criminalization of The FSB and “Gangland Petersburg”
- Emancipation and Expansion of FSB Functions
- The FSB and The Other Security Ministries
- Economic Lobbying
- Political Operations
- The Takeovers of NTV, Yukos, and Sergei Magnitsky
- The FSB as “Shadow Government”
The KGB was an integral part of the Soviet system built around communist ideology and its disintegration within a few weeks of the collapse of the USSR left behind a vast bureaucracy. Its employees went to work and, by habit, followed the instructions of their new leaders, but it was hardly the same KGB. Prior to 1991, the agency employed about 480...
Although it might seem that the contemporary FSB would attract people with certain worldviews, employees’ ideologies are their own business and the FSB has no official creed. Also unlike the Soviet-era VChK, OGPU, and NKVD, which recruited according to Marxist ideas of class and where officers of the previous tsarist secret police were rarely found...
The formation of this fundamentally new political force, which took place throughout the 1990s and continued until 2003, happened in three stages: commercialization, criminalization, and emancipation. Commercialization and criminalization, which took place virtually simultaneously, were the inevitable consequences of the de-ideologization of the se...
Business security was not the only opportunity that awaited underemployed KGB agents in the early 1990s. In the ashes of the Soviet Union, a slew of organized crime groups rose up, and the authorities lacked the resources to stop them. These gangs stole, trafficked in arms and drugs, and “protected” businesspeople for a certain percentage of their ...
As the FSB changed, it sought to reclaim its perch atop not only the government but also the country’s business and economic operations. Even today, the FSB seeks to restore its status as a super-service that broadly surveils society and the state apparatus, as well as other less powerful security and justice organs. To that end, since the late 199...
In 2004, Putin gave special services leadership much broader powers.18Presidential Decree of the Russian Federation N 807 of June 11, 2004, On issues of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation,” President of Russia. https://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_48357/. In particular, the director of the FSB could determine the memb...
Economic or commercial “fixing” in this report refers to the use of FSB resources to redistribute markets (including illegal ones, such as smuggling or drug trafficking); seize, hold, and redistribute assets; and protect the economic interests of the well-connected. The first major scandal that showed the public the depth of FSB involvement in comm...
While the FSB took on its new economic functions, it also started to conduct political operations with the explicit or tacit consent of the president, his administration, and the Security Council. In 1999, for example, the FSB was involved in the dismissal of Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov, who a year earlier had investigated potential wrongdoing...
The FSB’s next audacious show of strength was its participation in the seizure of private television channel NTV in 2001. NTV was majority-owned by Media-Most, a holding company formed by entrepreneur Vladimir Gusinsky. Known for its editorial independence, the channel had investigated a series of mysterious explosions in September 1999 in which th...
Today, the FSB has displaced a variety of state institutions and continues to exert behind-the-scenes control of every source of power in Russia. In addition to their direct duties, intelligence officers help resolve political and economic issues in the interests of Putin, his inner circle, or the president’s administration. Given its preeminent ro...
10 déc. 2023 · Citing conversations with other Russian officials, Litvinenko wrote in his book Lubyanka Criminal Group that an "Uzbek team" led by a man he called "Gafur" was an important vehicle for...
26 mai 2023 · The Lubyanka building was the site where many decisions were taken that caused mass violence to be enacted across the Soviet Union. As a site of institutional violence, it is like the Wannsee House (Digan, 2014), the building in Berlin where Nazi leaders agreed on the form and function of the Holocaust in 1942. However, the Lubyanka ...
Lubyanka Criminal Group (also translated as The Gang from Lubyanka) is a book by Alexander Litvinenko about the alleged transformation of the Russian Security Services into a criminal...
Lubyanka Criminal Group (Russian: Лубянская преступная группировка; also translated as The Gang from Lubyanka) is a book by Alexander Litvinenko about the alleged transformation of the Russian Security Services into a criminal and terrorist organization.[1][2] Lubyanka is known as KGB headquarters. In the book, the ...
3 déc. 2006 · In a book he published in 2004, “Lubyanka Criminal Group,” Mr. Litvinenko referred to a turning point in his life as an agent. In December 1997, he said his superior in the F.S.B. called him into...
