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  The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
FSK Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki Federal Counterintelligence Service, predecessor of the FSB.
For many regional bosses and security officials it was also a rare opportunity to hide parts of the archives and blame their disappearance on the Russians, and then to use the hidden files at their own convenience.
Yel'tsin’s security priority, after attempting illegally and unsuccessfully to set up a Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs, was to build separate power structures with the status of a service or an agency to reduce their parliamentary supervision to the absolute minimum.
www.agentura.ru /english/dosie/brit/fsb   (19511 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Control at checkpoints at Russian border with Azerbaijan and Georgia are intensified
The Russian Foreign Ministry hopes that the United States will take a decision on the case of what is called the "foreign minister" of Chechnya Ilyas Akhmadov minding the position of Russia, official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko told journalists in Moscow on Friday More details...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is convinced that the pension reform in Russia has not been failed.
The press service of the Sakhalin Energy company, which is the operator of a Sakhalin-2 project, said this to RIA Novosti on Wednesday More details...
newsfromrussia.com /main/2003/12/20/51878.html   (1808 words)

  
 Statute on Federal Security Service of Russian Federation and Structure of Federal Security Service Agencies
Statute on the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
The Russian FSB will be guided in its work by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, edicts and directives of the President of the Russian Federation, decrees and directives of the Government of the Russian Federation, international treaties of the Russian Federation, and this Statute.
The Russian FSB will be a corporate body with actual and fictitious titles, an official emblem, a stamp depicting the official arms of the Russian Federation and its own name, and the appropriate variety of seals, letterheads, and accounts, including foreign currency accounts, in banks and other lending institutions.
www.fas.org /irp/world/russia/fsb/statute.html   (4350 words)

  
 inform.kz | 135887;
Citizen of the Russian Federation Chagilov Rustam, 1978, was extradited to the Russia’s law enforcement agencies September 1 in the Astana international airport by the sanction of the Kazakhstan General Prosecutor’s office on the ground of the 1993 Minsk Convention “On rendering of legal assistance and legal relations on civil, family and criminal cases, “
June this year the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation initiated a criminal case against Rustam Chagilov on the charge of commission of crimes on the territory of Chechen Republic (extra-legal participating in band formation, illegal acquisition, disposal, sale, storage, transport and bearing of arms).
On request of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation on rendering legal assistance the National Security organs of Kazakhstan have detained R. Chagilov in Taraz.
www.inform.kz /showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=135887;   (195 words)

  
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These Regulations are drafted in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation in the sphere of providing for nuclear safety and security while conducting nuclear activities and in consideration of the Russian Federation’s international obligations and IAEA recommendations on the physical protection of nuclear materials,[1] nuclear installations, and nuclear material storage facilities.
Federal organs of executive power and organizations possessing knowledge of physical protection, as well as the administration (organs of military command, for facilities of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense) of a dangerous nuclear facility must take the necessary measures to protect information on the organization and operation of the physical protection system.
The security and defense of dangerous nuclear facilities is implemented by the appropriate units of the internal troops of the Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense, non-departmental guards of the Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs, or departmental guards of dangerous nuclear facilities.
www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/reactor/mpca/mpcadecs/physprot.htm   (5299 words)

  
 RussiaToday.Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Federal Security Service, known by its Russian acronym FSB (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopastnosti), is a component part of the forces charged with ensuring the security of the Russian Federation, and within the limits of powers granted to it, is responsible for ensuring the security of individuals, society and the state.
The structure and organization of the activity of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation are defined by the Statute on the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation endorsed by the President of the Russian Federation.
On April 3, 1995 RF President Boris Yeltsin signed the Law "On the bodies of the Federal Security Service in the Russian Federation" on the basis of which the FSB is the legal successor of the Federal Counterintelligence Service.
russiatoday.strana.ru /en/security/defence/sp_ser   (644 words)

  
 Privacy and Human Rights 2003: Russian Federation
Russian federal laws establish over 30 types of classified data while other governmental regulations add about 10 types of data to the list.
Russian legislation does not establish a central regulatory body for data protection and the Office of the Federal Ombudsman pays little attention to data protection cases.
In December 1999 the law was amended to allow surveillance by the tax police, Interior Ministry, Border Guards, the Kremlin Security Service, the Presidential Security Service, the parliamentary security services and the Foreign Intelligence Service.
www.privacyinternational.org /survey/phr2003/countries/russianfederation.htm   (2640 words)

  
 PHR2004 - The Russian Federation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Russian Internet community did its best to prevent this bill from becoming a law and suggested an alternative bill on the State Policy of the Russian Federation Pertaining to the Development and Use of the Internet.
The Fifth Periodical Report of the Russian Federation on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides that in the last four years 42 persons were convicted for violations of privacy, 61 for the violation of the secrecy of communications.
Russian courts (including the Supreme Court in 1998) have asserted that this permission regime is unconstitutional.
www.privacyinternational.org /article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-83789   (3666 words)

  
 International forum "Security and Safety Technologies"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The system of security bodies should become an efficient tool of the state, capable of harnessing extremism and terrorism, of opposing it with their intellectual, operational and technical potential.
Committee of the Federal Council of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation for Defence and Security
It comprises the biggest in the country specialized industry exhibition of technical means and services in the field of security and a unique business program: conferences, seminars, round table discussions on actual security issues in Russian Federation, as well as information projects and the program of promoting the Russian security technologies on foreign markets.
www.tbforum.ru /eng/cont.php?file=conc   (837 words)

  
 news - Russian Federation: Agony without end for families of the "disappeared"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He was reported to have been detained by members of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Russian Federation republic and taken across the internal border to Chechnya.
The office of the Procurator General of the Russian Federation and other official sources state that about 2,500 people were abducted or "disappeared" in Chechnya since the beginning of the second armed conflict in the republic in 1999.
The authorities have admitted that members of the Russian federal forces and Chechen law enforcement agencies were involved in the "disappearance" of civilians.
www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=94189&src=0   (914 words)

  
 Dmitrii Antonovich Volkogonov Papers (Library of Congress)
Tight restrictions on access to Russian archives were a hindrance to his research, and although he served in the military and was a Communist Party member for over forty years, he found only one archives fully open to him, the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense.
Modern Russian history, according to Volkogonov, began in the 1870s and 1880s with the births of the participants in the events that led to the Russian Revolution and continued through World War II.
The small group of records from the Archive of the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Academy of Sciences (AIVI MO RAN) consists of copies of material that is a part of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/volkogon.html   (3753 words)

  
 FSB: 112 computer crimes revealed
FSB head assistant, the secretary of Security Service, informed that in 2003 year FSB disclosed 900 attempts of penetration in information resources of state authorities.
In the whole 112 crimes were revealed and 25 Russians were brought to court, Ushakov informed.
FSB head assistant assured deputies that it is necessary to adopt preventive measures on fighting terrorism in Russia, introducing of additional authorities for special services inclusive.
www.crime-research.org /news/2004/02/Mess1202.html   (233 words)

  
 EUR 46/019/2002 RUSSIAN FEDERATION/CHECHNYA UA 164/02 "Disappearance"/Fear of torture/Fear of extra-judicial execution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On 3 June, the military commander in Shali, a town 20 kilometres south-west of Grozny, indicated to Said-Magomed Imakaev's wife, Marzet Imakaeva that her husband was being held in that town.
However, on 4 June, an official from the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) in Shali said that her husband was not being held in the town, but might have been taken to the village of Mesker-Yurt in the Shali district.
During military raids, ostensibly to root out Chechen fighters, Russian security forces continue to subject the civilian population to serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
www2.amnesty.se /uaonnet.nsf/0/f3b0b4dbe272a690c1256bd0002704ae?opendocument   (703 words)

  
 Defending justice for all in the Russian Federation - Discrimination on grounds of race   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Said-Khusein Imakaev "disappeared" on 14 December 2000 after being detained by a group of masked men, and his father Said-Magomed Imakaev "disappeared" on 2 June 2002 after being detained by members of the Russian federal forces.
We are concerned that the detentions of Said-Khusein and Said-Magomed Imakaev, and the incomplete investigations which have followed, illustrate a pattern of institutionalised racial discrimination in the Russian Federation, particularly on the part of security and law enforcement agencies.
Russian Federation Ambassador to NZ, H.E. Mr Gennady I Shabannikov
www.amnesty.org.nz /web/Pages/home.nsf/dd5cab6801f1723585256474005327c8/01f4f6a288f9b6c7cc256d6400248132!OpenDocument   (287 words)

  
 Government of the Russian Federation
to take measures to enhance protection and security of facilities in atomic and energy complexes, in the enterprises which use in their production inflammable and explosion-prone materials and powerful poisonous and venomous substances, in other hazardous facilities as well as facilities pertaining to the bodies of the state government of the Russian Federation.
To provide to the Interagency Operational Headquarters the right to hear during its meetings the chiefs of the Federal executive bodies and the executive bodies of the entities of the Russian Federation making pronouncements on the issues of organisation of work on terrorism control.
To assign the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation with the provision of the organisational and technical support of the activity of the Interagency Operational Headquarters.
www.bits.de /NRANEU/Russia-Caucasus/resolution150999.htm   (728 words)

  
 DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (Taxes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
To establish that the Commission shall carry on its activity in accordance with regulations and work plans approved by the President of the Russian Federation and submit reports on the results of their activity to him on a monthly basis.
Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (by agreement);
Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation;
www.ulfsbo.nu /ussr/taxes.html   (578 words)

  
 $10m reward offered for Chechen rebel leaders - Gateway To Russia - News From Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation announced a reward of RUR 300m (about $10m) for information about the whereabouts of Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
A group of bandits led by Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov staged “inhuman acts of terrorism on the territory of the Russian Federation, which involved a tremendous loss of life", the Federal Security Service stressed.
When our correspondent called one of these numbers, the person who answered the call, said that he was unaware of the reward, and it was the telephone of the Federal Security Service’s information service.
www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_251652.php   (268 words)

  
 Capital One Fsb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Its name is an acronym from the Russian Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) which translates to Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
Its successor the FSK (''Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki'' (''Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки''), Federal Counterintelligence Service) was reorganized into the FSB by the Federal Law of April 3, 1995, "On the Organs of the Federal Security Service in the Russian Federation", making the new FSB a more powerful organization.
If other articles on Russian government departments are in Russian, they should also be moved to the English titles.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/30/capital-one-fsb.html   (902 words)

  
 UNDCP - E/NL. 2001/48: Resolution n�. 647, Procedure for the fur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors seized from illicit traffic whose further use is deemed inadvisable by the agencies that seized or confiscated them shall be destroyed by State unitary enterprises or establishments licensed for that activity.
The consignment for further use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors and of instrumentalities and equipment that have been ordered to be destroyed shall be prohibited.
The federal executive authorities shall bring their regulatory and legal instruments into line with this resolution.
www.unodc.org /unodc/legal_library/ru/legal_library_2001-09-04_2001-48.html   (590 words)

  
 FSB Staff Cards for Sale on the Internet - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Russian Internet users have begun receiving letters offering them the chance to “come into lawful possession of an official employee card of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation” for a moderate fee, Lenta.Ru Web-site reported on Monday.
The cards are being issued by the St. Petersburg-based JSC Federalnaya Sluzhba Besopasnosti RF (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation), according to the www.fsbinfo.com Web-site.
Their employees are awarded titles ranging from junior officers to lieutenant colonels and posts from an operative to head of a directorate.
www.mosnews.com /news/2004/09/27/fsbinfocard.shtml   (513 words)

  
 legal redux: Restricted speech for Russian news source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pravda.ru (english version) is a popular Russian webpage that posts society and news items daily.
The company particularly informed Pravda.Ru about a letter which they had received from the Federal Security Service of Russia.
Free speech defenders at Russian PEN Centre have been hit with an order freezing their organization’s assets and threatening the group’s future – a step widely seen as both unjust and probably politically motivated.
ledux.blogspot.com /2006/03/restricted-speech-for-russian-news.html   (580 words)

  
 ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia
This is a brief extract from the ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic information system for archival repositories in the Russian Federation, maintained in Moscow under the direction of Patricia Kennedy Grimsted in collaboration with the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarkhiv--before March 2004, Federal Archival Service of Russia).
The current fourteen federal archives administered by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (labelled "B" from the ABB database), as last reorganized in March 1999.
Archives of major federal agencies that have the right to the long-term retention of their own records (labelled "C" from the ABB database).
www.iisg.nl /~abb   (2116 words)

  
 Conflict Studies Research Centre - The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation(C102)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Conflict Studies Research Centre - The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation(C102)
The "Brain" of the Russian Army - The Centre for Military-Strategic Research, General Staff 1985-2000 (C101)
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
www.da.mod.uk /CSRC/documents/Russian/C102/file_view   (130 words)

  
 History of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POWs and MIAs - United States-Russia Joint Commission on POWs and MIAs ...
The U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs was established in March 1992 by the direction of the Presidents of the United States and of the Russian Federation.
It consists of officials from the ministries of Defense, Internal Affairs, and Foreign Affairs; the Russian archives; Federal Security Service; and the Russian Federation’s Presidential Commission on POWs, Internees, and Missing in Action.
A staff of some eighteen personnel are assigned to the Washington headquarters and to a field office at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow, to assure close coordination with Russian counterparts and timely follow-up on a number of unresolved issues.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/tfr/tfrhist.html   (452 words)

  
 National Security: Russia: Selected Internet Resources (Portals to the World, Library of Congress)
The Russian Internet holds a wealth of sites on these topics ranging from veterans' pages and sites devoted to particular branches or units of the military to literary portals commemorating historic or tragic events and police and crime-related sites.
Founded in 2000, this portal is an "internet-community of journalists who write about intelligence and secret services." In Russian and English, but there is much more information on the Russian pages.
WAAF is working towards a "united front of the anti-criminal and anti-terrorist forces." In Russian and English.
www.loc.gov /rr/international/european/russia/resources/ru-national.html   (750 words)

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