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1316-1945 – Masha Greenbaum. The Jews of Lithuania a history of a remarkable community. Jerusalem 1995.

1428 – Gypsies moved into Ukraine from the Balkans. (A history of the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

1613-1682 – The first Romanov tsar was crowned. The dynasty passed from father to son until 1682 when Tsar Alexis died. (The great upheaval Jay Winik ©2007 US).

1764 – British Lord George Macartney was knighted at 27 years old, sent to Russia as British envoy. Russian Empress Catherine de Cuvet 3 years in Russia. (Opium wars ©2002 WT Hanes F Sanello ).

1768-1785 – The Ottoman empire declared war on Russia. 1782 fear of another war. On 28 Dec 1783 Turkey lost the Crimea to Russia. In 1785 there was a rebellion among Chechen and other tribes. (The great upheaval ©2007 Jay Winik US).

1825 – The death of Tsar Alexander I in 1825. (We now know. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1834-60 – Poland’s gypsies Kalderash and Lovari Rom from Wallachia, Moldavia, Hungary and Transylvania moved into Poland in the 1860s,  later moved out of Poland into Russia. In 1834 Russian 60 million population 48,247 gypsies or 50,000 gypsies in Russia. (A history of the gypsies from Eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe ©2007).

25 March 1854 – Crimea, Russia and the West at war. (The Economist March April 2014).

1867 – History archives. Russia’s sale of Alaska to the Americans in 1867. (We now know. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1881 – Tsar Alexander II became the first of many European heads of state to be assassinated. His assassins were ‘the peoples will’, and have been called the first modern terrorist group. (Gods assassins. ©2009 G Baddeley P Woods UK).

1881 – The assassination of Alexander II in 1881. (We now know. John Lewis Gaddis. ©1997 US).

1894-1917 – The revolution of march 1917 that deposed the Romanov dynasty, the last tsar Nicolas!!, his wife Alexandra and their 5 children. Tsars 1894 accession to the throne. Failed 1905 revolution. (Gods assassins ©2009 G Baddeley P Woods UK).

1904-1905 – Japanese victory over Czarist Russia in the Russian Japanese war of 1904-05. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1905 – Born in 1905, Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel and his family fled pogroms against Jews in Russian Kiev, and went to the US. (Money and power ©2001 S Denton R Morris US).

1917 – Russian revolution leads to nationalized private property.

1917 – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized control of Russia and imposed Marxism. Union of Soviet Socialist republics. (The cold war ©2005 JL Gaddis).

23 July 1917 – German spies in Russia. The Times London UK.

7 November 1917 – In Petrograd, the former St Petersburg, the Bolsheviks, an underground Communist faction led by Lenin, seized control of the Russian government on the night of 7 November 1917. They received large suns of money from the German government. Management of domestic public opinion, (In the time of the America ©1995 D Fromkin).

March 1919 – Comintern, Communist international worldwide Communist organisation formed in Moscow, March 1919 to promote world revolution.

1921-27 – The Trust, Cheka operation led by ‘ spy chief Feliks Dzerzhinsky. Its job was to disrupt Russians who were supported by the UK and France.

1924 – There was a terrible flood in Leningrad. (Brainwash Dominic Streatfeild ©2006 UK)

1926 – The GRU was founded and chief Intel Directorate of the red army. (Treachery C Pincher ©2011 UK).

1927 – In the UK the successful ARCOS raid. The Soviet trade delegation along with the Russia cooperative society ltd ARCOS was raided by police and M15 and vast quantity of espioanage activity was uncovered.

1927-55 – Yuriy Ivanovich Nosenko was born in 1927 in the town of Nikolayev Ukraine near the port city of Odessa on the Black sea. In 1953 he transferred to the MVD, the old KGB, and was stationed for the next 11 years in Moscow, as a top officer in the second chief directorate SCD, the division responsible for Soviet internal security, equivalent of the FBI or M15. Nosenko specialised in supervising surveillance and recruitment of US embassy employees and American journalists. In 1955 he was transferred to the SCD seventh department from which he ran blackmail operations and recruited tourists academics businessmen and visitors to the USSR, Nosenko became a member of the Soviet Communist party during this period.

1928 – 53 – Estimates of Stalin’s victims over his 25 years reign from 1928-53… 20 million… minimum, the greatest mass murderer in European civilization. (Inside the Stalin archives J Brent ©2008 US).

1934 – Tyler Gatewood Kent was offered a job at the new US embassy in Moscow, as a code cipher clerk. He began providing the KGB with copies of secret diplomatic cables. (Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).

1934 – In December 1861 a KGB officer named Anatoli Golitsin defected to the CIA in Helsinki. He said Philby had been a KGB mole since 1934. (Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).

1936-38 – The Moscow show trials. Soviet state prosecutor Andrei Vyshinsky and frame ups. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild ©2006 UK)

1936-42 – Soviet military espionage operation in world war two this illegal spy ring of 118 agents controlled from Moscow, operated in German occupied Europe.

1937 – What did the Soviets capture when they overran a large Japanese bacteriological weapons establishment at Harbin Manchuria. As early as 1937 experiments were conducted into plague virus. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1938 – Kent was working for the KGB, he had just spent 4 years at the US embassy in Moscow, he applied for Berlin where diplomatic messages were of interest to the KGB Kent was assigned to London UK. (Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).

1938 – A major Soviet attempt to infiltrate the Woolwich arsenal UK using a veteran communist engineer employed there Percy Glading.

August 1939 – Stalin signed the non aggression pact with Hitler. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1941 – The MAGIC team got a report from Hiroshi concerning Hitlers plan to invade the Soviet Union. (Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).

10 Feb 1941 – General Walter Krivitsky Soviet intel defector shot by pistol. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US)

22 June 1941 – The German invasion of the Soviet Union began, a surprise attack. (The cold war. ©2005 JL Gaddis).

22 June 1941 – Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s attack on the Soviet union, a World War. The US was still not at war. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

24 June 1941 – History of the International Information Agency Russia today formerly RIA Novosti. Russian archives online.

19-30 Sept 1941 – Babi Yar a wooded ravine in northwest Kiev was the site of a 36 hour massacre of 33,371 Jews .(A history of the gypsies from eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. ©2007).

October 1941 – Axel von dem Bussche saw the killing of more than 5,000 Jews at Dubno in the Ukraine in October 1941. (History today. Sept 2010 UK).

1942 – Boris Rybkin KGB resident in Stockholm Sweden trying to get Swedish steel for the Soviet Aviation industry. Enshilda bank with Jacob Wallenberg playing a key role. (Espionage. ©1985 E Volkman).

Nov 1943 – Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin wartime summit in Tehran.

1944 – The Manhattan project was operated by Operation CANDY, there was virtually nothing the Russians didn’t know about it. Moscow had received 286 top secret documents stolen from the projects centre and info provided by 200 assets. (Espionage. ©1995 Volkman).

14 Nov 1944 – The Vlasov Russian army of liberation, the Prague manifesto. General Andrei Vlasov, overthrowing Bolshevics. Russian nationalists. He was handed over to the Soviets by the US army in 1945. Hanged in Moscow in 1946, for active espionage sabotage and terrorist activities. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1945 – Golitsyn studied at an artillery school for officers in Odessa, then transferred to a course on military counter intel, after graduating Golitsyn officially joined the Soviet intel service.

1945 – The American communications intel re targeted in 1945 against the Russians, began to break into the pile of wartime Soviet intel communications. (Espionage ©1995 Volkman).

1945-85 – The chef test of the quality of US intel agencies was their capability to gauge the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union and China.

Jan 1945 – Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviets, he died in Moscow prison in 1947 aged 34. AAP Newstalk ZB NZ. 10 July 2014.

4 Feb 1945 – The leaders of the grand alliance met at the Black sea resort of Livadia. Yalta conference Churchill Stalin and Roosevelt. (Cold war. ©193 M Walker).

Feb 1946 – Stalin’s election to the Supreme Soviet, and his first major post war address. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

22 Sept 1946 – First meeting of the Cominform the Communist info bureau which Stalin launched, as a response to the Marshall plan. He convened a conference of the leaders of the Communist parties of Europe, both east and west. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1947 – Raoul Wallenberg’s death in 1947, aged 34, in a Moscow prison. AAP Newstalk ZB NZ 10 July 2014.

1948-52 – Golitsyn studied counter intel at the high intel school then took a correspondence course with the high diplomatic school.

29 Oct 1948 – Black Friday. The Soviets, using one time pads, were encrypted. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1949 – The Soviet Union set up the “World peace council” which had a British “Peace” committee affiliated to it. A Communist front exploiting the idea of “peace” to strengthen Communism throughout the world. The east Germans had a peace council too, Commmunist Socialist parties. (Stasi files. ©203 A Glees).

1949-51 – Kim Philby was one of Jim Angleton’s closest British friends. Philby worked for the KGB.

29 August 1949 – The Soviet Union got its own atomic bomb. The test took place in the Kazakhstan desert. Stalin. (The cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).

29 Aug 1949 – The Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Dec 1949 – Mao made the trip to Moscow, his first ever outside of China, to meet the leader of the world communist movement, a Sino Soviet treaty resulted. (The cold war. ©2005 JL Gaddis).

December 1949 – Mao proclaimed the peoples republic of China in October 1949. In December he went by train to Moscow for two months, and the Sino Soviet treaty of friendship alliance and mutual help was negotiated and signed. A Communist bloc. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1950 – A West Berlin reporter was kidnapped in 1950 by the Soviets, beaten over seven months then sentenced to 25 years at Workuta in the arctic circle. (Stasi files. ©2003 A Glees).

1954 – A Russian defector, Nikolai Khokhlov told the CIA that there was a secret Soviet lab called Kamera in Spets Byuro. (Brainwash. Dominic Streatfeild ©2006 UK).

1961 – Then head of the KGB was Vladimir Semichastny. (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womaldl).

1961 – Soviet spy Oleg Penkovskiy a senior GRU officer on the intel directorate of the general staff in Moscow. In1961 after he defected “inplace” he passed on high grade Soviet military intel to London and Washington. In a few months, Penkovskiy delivered microfilm of over 10,000 pages pf Soviet military documents, personal histories of Soviet generals, training manuals, specifications of Soviet missiles.

1961-62 – Oleg Penkovsky a senior GRU officer who spied in place for M16 and the CIA during 1961 and 1962 (Spycatcher. Peter Wright ©1987).

13 Nov 1961 – Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepi as head of the KGB. Historyorb.com.

1962 – When Oswald lived in the Soviet Union the KGB assigned Nosenko to watch him. The KGB considered the idea of recruiting him. The KGB did have an involvement with Oswald. They allowed him to return to the US with his Russian born wife. Raising the possibility of a presidential assassination arranged by the KGB.

23 Jan 1962 – British spy Kim Philby defected to USSR. Historyorb.com.

1 June 1962 – Russian meat and butter prices were raised by 20%. In the Ukraine city of Novocherkassk the price rise coincided with a pay for the works of the Budyenny locomotive works. Protests grew into riots serious enough to require the intervention of KGB troops. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

15 June 1962 – Nosenko returned to Moscow to resume his duties as an officer in the KGB second chief directorate through to of 1962 and 1967 Nosenko remained in Moscow out of touch with the CIA. On 20 Jan 1964 Nosenko returned to Switzerland for his second tour with Soviet disarmament delegation deputy chief of the seventh tourist department.

Oct 1962 – After 18 months spying for the UK and US, the GRU Colonel Penkovskiy was arrested by the KGB, tried and executed.

22 Oct 1962 – Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, the West’s best placed spy had been arrested in Moscow. The same day Kennedy announced the presence of missiles in Cuba on US TV. Clearly Penkovsky had given the Americans info on the weakness of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, on 27 Oct 1962 more than 1,000 protesters were outside the White House, some peace and some war. The Soviet garrison in Cuba comprised 42,000 men equipped with tactical nuclear weapons. Authority ti use them lay with the local commanders. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1975 – Putin studied international law at Leningrad state uni. He graduated in 1975 then joined the KGB. (Deception. Edward Lucas ©2012 UK).

1975 – President Ford signed the 1975 Helsinki agreements. A decade of history had shown that by 1985 the Helsinki agreements had meant the US had ratified Communist control of eastern Europe in return for Soviet promises of human rights and political liberalisation which were never carried out. (Inside the NSC ©1988 C Menges).

14 July 1978 – Leader Post Regina. Canwest publishing. Canadian Press. Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky was convicted of treason and Soviet agitation. 13 years hard labour. He was released in 1986.

Nov 1982 – Yuri Andropov, a former KGB chief, took power when Leonid Brezhnev died in November 1982. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

1990 – Inside the KGB my life in Soviet espionage Vladimir Kuzichkin. New York Pantheon books. Worldcat database.

1991 – The Soviet mafia. Arkadii Vaksberg. New York St Martins press. Worldcat database.

24 August 1991 – Ukraine gained freedom from its former mother country, the Soviet Union. (Ancestry July August 2007).

1993 – The future of the KGB archives. A Knight. Slavic review JSTOR. The KGB archives. (Google scholar).

1994 – Soviet empire KGB in Russia today Westview press inc.

1994 – KGB death and rebirth. Martin Ebon. Google books.

1994 – Viktor Geramchenko ran the central bank until 1994. He may have been the worst central bank governor of any major country in history. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas (c)2008 US).

1997 – The number of deaths resulting from Stalin’s policies before World War Two was between 17 and 22 million. Twice the number of Hitler’s victims in the holocaust. Russia after World War Two had lost at least 27 million citizens in that conflict. (We now know. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1997 – New evidence on Moscows cold war. WC Wohlforth. Diplomatic history, the massive archives are still inaccessible.

1997 – Russian organised crime. The new threat. Phil Williams London Portland call Worldcat database.

1998 – Russian organised crime. RW Dellow. Conflict studies centre UK. Canberley Surrey. Worldcat database.

1998 – The 1998 economic crisis, Yeltsin. Banks disappeared, along with them their deposits. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

1999 – The sword and the shield. The Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB. Christopher M Andrews. Vasili Mitrokhin. New York Basic books Worldcat database.

July 1999 – Mr Putin was still head of the FSB. (The new cold war. Edwards Lucas ©2008 US).

Aug-Sept 1999 – Fighters from Chechnya raided villages in Dagestan in August 1999. On 31 Aug 1999 a bomb exploded in Moscow in an underground shopping mall, one person was killed. On 4 Sept, a car bomb in Buinaksk in Dagestan killed 64 people. Four days later a large bomb blew up a nine storey apartment building in southeast Moscow, killing 94 people and wounding 150. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

9 Aug 1999 – President Yeltzin made Vladimir Putin PM . (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

Sept 1999 – Two Duma deputies, Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin died in mysterious circumstances. A journalist, Otto Lacis was beaten and died in a car crash. The commission lawye,r Mikhail Trepashkin was jailed. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

Sept 1999 – On 13 Sept 1999 another bomb blew up, an eight story building in southern Moscow, killing 118 people and wounding 200. Three days later a truck bomb in Volgodonsk Russia killed 17 people. Boris Berezovsky was under investigation for foreign cash from the national airline Aeroflot. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

2000 – Ukraine a history. Orest Subtelry. Google books.

2000-2001 – Mr Putin won a Presidential election in March 2000. His government added a 13% flat tax in 2001. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

2001 – The Russian mafia, private protection in a new market. Frederic Varece. Oxford New York Worldcat Database.

2002 – Russian and post Soviet organised crime. Mark Galeotti. Aldershot Ashgate. Worldcat database.

2003 – Arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Russia’s richest man, who had defied Putin. He was an energy tycoon Yukos owner. Yukos was bankrupted. (Deception Edward Lucas ©2012 UK)

2003 – The cold war. Ted Gottfried. USSR and the cold war. (Google books).

2003 – 27 Nov 2006 Leonid Nevzlin a Jewish Russian billionaire fled Russia when it became clear that the government was targeting Yukos oil owners and executives. He became an Israeli citizen in 2003. Yukos oil was broken up and sold to Russian state owned firm for half of its value. Prosecution and forced sale of the company.

2003-2005 – On 25 Oct 2003, Mr Khodorkovskys private jet landed for refuel at Novosibirsk in Serbia. Masked FSB agents stormed the plane and arrested him. Prison in Moscow charged with fraud and tax evasion. In May 2005 Mr Khodorkovsky was sentenced to nine years jail for fraud. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

2004 – The Soviet dimension of Italian communism. R Drake. Journal of cold war studies MIT press. Bigazzi, a journalist historian obtained documents from the Russian archives the KGB a Red Gladio, secret military security.

2004 – Politician in Cheboksary, Igor Molyakov, six month sentence. While in jail he was sent to a psychiatric prison. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

Sept 2004 – Chechyan fighters took hostages, hundreds of children, parents and teachers at a school in Beslan north Ossetia. An anti terrorist operation killed 334 of the hostages including 186 children. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

2005 – The most shocking form of repression is the forced imprisonment in a psychiatric prison. The gulag system of slave labour camps. The abuse of psychiatry, Soviet system . Albert Imendayev. a politician in Chebokary on the Voga river. He was arrested and placed in a psychiatric prison. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

11 Nov 2005 – Zamanbek Nurqadilov a former emergency situations minister and mayor of Almaty died. Nurqadilovs body was discovered in his home with two gunshots wounds to the chest and one to the head. The official report was suicide death, a political assassination.

29 Nov 2005 – Stepan Senchuk the former head of the Lviv regional public administration and the head of the Ecolan supervisory board was shot dead, Media reports speculated that Senchuk was killed because of his business activities.

2006 – Moscow a cultural history. Caroline Brooke. Google books.

2006 – The release of the private papers of Vyacheslev Molotov, Stalin’s deputy. (Treachery C Pincher ©2011 UK).

Jan 2006 – GRU archives, a Soviet spy inside the Manhattan project. He died in Moscow aged 93 in Jan 2006. In 2007 President Putin said his name was George Koval and he was named as a hero of Russia the highest honour, a GRU spy. (Treachery C Pincher ©2011 UK).

13 Feb 2006 – Altynbek Sarsenbaev co chairman of the opposition True Aq Zhol party died. Sarsenbaev his driver and bodyguard were slain execution style with their hands tied behind their backs. The former information minister and ambassador to Russia was killed for political reasons.

22 March 2006 – Ryszard Badon Lehr Polish diplomat died. Badon Lehr was found unconscious in his apartment in Hrodna where he served as Polish vice consul. He died in hospital, Belarusian authorities were accuse of involvement in Badon Lehrs death.

23 March 2006 – Police raided the home of human rights activist Marina Trutko injecting her with drugs used for psychiatric punishments, more injections and drugs were forced. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

10 May 2006 – Reputed criminal fugitive Ryshek Akmatbayev was killed by unknown gunmen as he left a mosque in Bishkek. Rysbeks killers remain at large.

7-8 June 2006 – Hryhoriy Potylchak a Nyzhyn city council deputy was shot dead on the night of 7-8 June 2006. Potylchak headed a commission that investigated the activities of the local authorities.

22 June 2006 – Russia Sedrak Zatikian a senior leader of the Yerkrapah union of Karabakh war veterans died. Zatikian was killed in a drive by shooting in Yerevans malatia sebastia district assailants fired numerous rounds before escaping.

July 2006 – Geday Akhmedov governor of the Lebap province died in jail apparently from a heart attack. A once favoured provincial governor Akhmedov was dismissed and sentenced to 17 years for corruption nespotism and abuse of power.

July 2006 – Venezuela and Russia sign a $3 billion arms deal including an agreement to buy fighter jets and helicopters. (BBC news 4 Dec 2006).

8 July 2006 – The Duma passed a law criminalizing extremism. The FSB can legally assassinate extremists at home and abroad.(The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

6 Sept 2006 – Shahen Hovasapian head of the state taxation service tasked with combating tax fraud, died. His government owned car exploded meters away from his apartment building. He had been specifically targeted. He died en route to hospital. He owned one of Armenias two largest gas companies Goshgaz.

13 Sept 2006 – Andrei Kozlov Russias top anti money laundering official who was himself assassinated, had in 2004 accused a Russian bank of accepting the ransom money in relation to Viktor Fabers kidnapping ransom Sept 2003. A trial centered on the role of a criminal group called the Tagiryanovskiye is underway

14 Sept 2006 – Andrei Kozlov the first deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank dies in hospital hours after being shot by unidentified gunmen outside a sports arena in Moscow.

7 Oct 2006 – Anna Politkovskya was shot dead in her Moscow flats. Litvinenko was known to have been investigating her death when he was poisoned. Critic of Putin and his policy towards Chechnya, wrote regularly on human rights abuses had received death threats because of her work. (26 Nov 2006 Sunday Observer UK Guardian).

7 Oct 2006 – Murder of Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow, she reported for the Novaya Gazeta a Moscow newspaper. (The annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US)

7 Oct 2006 – Anna Plitkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta Moscow aged 48 a journalist critical coverage of the Chechen conflict, was found slain in her apartment building in Moscow. Investigating reports about human rights abuses by the Russian military in Chechnya. N seven years covering the second Chechen war she reportedly drew the wrath of Russian authorities. She was threatened, jailed, forced into exile and poisoned during her career. (PJ).

7 Oct 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya a prominent Russian journalist with liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta was shot dead in her Moscow block of flats. Litvinenko was investigating her death when he was poisoned, a critic of Putin his policy towards Chechnya human rights writer. (26 Nov 2006 Sunday Observer UK Guardian).

7 Oct 2006 – Murder of Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow she reported for the Novaya Gazeta a Moscow newspaper. (The annals of unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

19 Nov 2006 – Russian spy arrested in Montreal Canada a he was about to board a plane to leave the country. Canadian counter intel op espionage is alive and well log after the cold war.

24 Dec 2006 – Russia’s use of energy supplies as a political weapon should be a wake up call to the west. (Telegraph UK Moscow Milissa Kite and Nicholas Holdsworth).

2007 – Russian mafia. Weton Wergran Worldcat database.

2007 – Indonesia and Russia the first arms shipments expected in 2007. This is a purchase between governments and does not involve the private sector. The $1 billion budget is part of the $3.7 billion allocated for arms purchases by the Indonesian military through export credits over the next 5 years starting in 2007. For the first shipment phase the military will prioritise equipment needed by the Air force. (Chinaview xinhua Jakarta. 11 nov 2006)

2007 – By 2007 Gordrevsky continued to publicly attack the Kremlin of president Vladimir Putin, much of what he said was provided by the SIS. (Secret wars ©2009 C Thomas US).

2007 - A history of the gypsies of eastern Europe and Russia. David M Crowe. Palgrave Macmillan. Second edition. ISBN 13 978 1 4039 8009 0

2007 – Akhmed Zakaev London based foreign minister of the Chechen republic of Ichkeria (chRi), Chechen leaders had also been poisoned with plutonium-210 in the past. Rebel field commander Lecha Ismailov, who died in 2004 in Moscows Lefortovo prison after drinking tea with 2 FSB officers, the symptoms were the same. A faction called the Sitoviki which is trying to pressure Putin to reman in power after 2008. Ruissia’s Defence ministry General Alexander Baranov the commander of the north Caucasus military district, announced plans to recruit another 10,000 contract soldiers for the districts units in 2007. (Nezavisimaya gazeta 11 nov 2006. 7 Dec 2006 Chechnya weekly vol vii issue 47).

15 Jan 2007 – 546 militants in Chechnya and other parts of north Caucuses mountain region turned themselves in as part of an amnesty that has recently expired and announced in july 2006. Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya prime minister. The latest amnesty followed the death in july 2006 of the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayav. According to human rights groups among militants who surrender join the ranks of Chechnyas security forces which have themselves been accused of abductions, torture and killing of civilians. (Houston chronicle Sergei Venvansky AP Russia).

16 Jan 2007 – Russia has competed transfers of the Tor-Mi anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, said Russian Defence minister Sergei Ivanov. The Tor-mi is a high accuracy missile designed to intercept cruise missiles, manned and unmanned aircraft, (Stratfor intel summary).

19 Jan 2007 – The lower house of the Russian parliament passed a bill to reform the country’s nuclear power sector. The bill calls for the creation of a state controlled holding company called Atomenergoprom and allows other Russian corporations to possess non weapons grade nuclear materials. Nuclear installations and nuclear storage facilities. Russia’s current nuclear fuel producer and supplier TVEL will become a subsidiary pf Atomenergoprom.(Geopolitical diary).

4 March 2007 – US expert on Russian intel was critically injured in a shooting at his home near Washington. The shooting of Paul Joye; 53 days after he accused the Russian government of involvement in the ..of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. The FBI is assisting in the investigation. Joyel and Litvinenko were acquaintances said Oleg Kalugin a former KGB counter intel chief who is now a US citizen and who met with Joyel several hours before he was shot. (AP Washington).

4 March 2007 – Oleg Kalugin a former KGB counter intel chief who is now a US citizen, and who met with Paul Joyal several times before he was shot. Joyal and Litvinenko were acquaintances said Oleg Kalugin. (AP Wellington US expert on Russian intel shot at his home near Washington).

29 March 2007 – Russian espionage at old war levels. AP article.

Mid 2007 – Forced into a Murmansk mental prison. An opposition activist named Larisa Arap, spoke up about sex abuse in psychiatric prisons, rapes and repression. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

31 August 2007 – Blast kills 4 police in Russia’s Ingushetia. Nazran Russia one injury on Friday in Nazran capital of Ingushetia which borders Chechnya, a terrorist act. A police patrol was sent to a Lada car packed with explosives. Parked next to the cultural center in the town center when police appeared the Lada blew up. There was nothing left of the Lada. Three police were killed and 2 injured, one of the injured died in hospital. (Reuters ).

Sept 2007 – German pipeline monopoly Sunimex blamed Russian oil company LUK oil for cutting crude oil supplies to Germany over the month of August, LUK oil’s attempt to gain better terms from Sunimex. Oil supplies to Germany are expected to normalize by Sept 2007 and the two companies reach a compromise. Reuters reported citing oil traders. (Stratfor intel summary 24 august 2007).

Sept 2007 – US and Russian officials will meet in Rime to discuss a replacement for the strategic arms reduction treaty Start-1 said Anotoly Antonov head of the Russian foreign ministry department for security and disarmament affairs. The start-1 treaty expires on 5 Dec 2009. (Stratfor intel summary 30 august 2007).

19 Sept 2007 – The EU is considering restrictions on foreign companies access to European energy networks, the financial Times reported on a confidential working paper. The step would first be aimed at Russian companies but could have clauses towards Saudi Arabia which restricts EU investments. The European commission will publish its proposal 19 Set 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 30 Aug 2007).

Late Sept 2007 – The Georgian defence ministry budget is being increased to bring the armed forced to NATO standards said Georgian PM Zurab Nogaideli. The current defence budget of $193 million will increase to $783 million. Georgia’s defence spending will reach 4 to 4,5% of GDP. Nogaideli said parliament will approve the budget increased in defence and other sectors by late Sept 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 29 Aug 2007).

End of Sept 2007 – Georgia and Russia will hold a meeting of their joint control commission in Tbilisi at the end of Sept following a meeting on 30 Aug among Georgian state minister for conflict resolution David Balcradze, Georgian deputy foreign affairs minister Giorgi Manjgaladze and Russian deputy foreign affairs minister Grigory Karasin the Russian foreign affairs ministry said. (Stratfor intel summary 31 Aug 2007).

Nov 2007 – Deliveries of uranium fuel for Irans Russian built Bushehr nuclear plant could be delayed because of late payments, which could derail the launch schedule, a Russian federal atomic energy agency spokesman said. Russia had agreed to begin shipping fuel by rail for a September launch, with electricity generation to start by November 2007. The Iranians cited technical reasons for the payment delays. (Stratfor Intel summary 19 Feb 2007 ).

2008 – Investigating the Russian mafia, an intro for students, law enforcement and business, Joseph Serio. Durham NC Carolina academic press. Worldcat database.

2008 – The new cold war How the Kremlin menaces Russia and the wet. Bloomsbury Putins Russia and the threat to the west Palgrave.

2008 - Organised crime in St Petersburg The Tambov mafia. (Deception E Lucas ©2012 UK).

2008 – Inside the Stalin archives discovering the new Russia. Jonathan Brent Atlas and co US. ISBN 978 0 9777 433 3 9.

2008 – Investigating the Russian Mafia an introduction for students law Joseph Serio.

2008 – Under Mr Putin the Russian economy grew, month by month for more than seven years. Russians appreciated this. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

1 Jan 2008 – Prices on Russian natural gas expects will rise 10% at the Ukrainian border Pravda reported. According to Yevhen Bakulin president of Naftogaz Ukrainy a Ukrainian energy company. Bakhulin said he expected the price to be fixed at about $143 per 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas. (Stratfor intel summary 22 august 2007).

Feb 2008 – Psychiatric abuse remains the single most shocking echo of Soviet style repression in modern Russia. In Feb 2008 Roman Nikolaychik from Tver spent nearly one month in a mental prion against his will, The use of psychiatrists during questioning by police and FSB continued. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2009 UK).

28 March 2008 – Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. The US and Russia are in a long term tug of war over Ukraine. Ukraine is the major arena where cold war 2 is being played out. (Geopolitical diary Ukraine the main battlefield of cold war 11 Stratfor).

Oct 2008 – London Sunday Ties said Mandelson was friends with Russian billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska, the worlds tenth richest man, close friend of Vladimir Putin. Deripaska had links to Russian mafia called the Izmanlovo organization. (Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US)

2009 – A group called the rising sun Moscows largest criminal family run by Semyon Yukivich Mogilevich a Ukrainian born Jew who set up more than 50 front companies around the world to launder money, drug trafficking and gun running to the middle east, sex trafficking. (secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).

2009 – Russian crude output could reach 11 million barrels bpd this surpassing Saudi Arabia Yukos chief executive officer Simon Kukes said. Russia ready to take on the oil world by Sergei Blagov AsiaiTimes online ltd.

Jan 2009 – Russia’s gas company Gazprom shut down supplies running through Ukraine, leaving a dozen countries short on heating fuel. (The shadow market. Eric J Weiner ©2010).

Jan 2009 – Murder of Stanislav Markelov a leading human rights lawyer, gunned down in the middle of Moscow, also killed a young journalist Anastasia Baburova. (Deception E Lucas ©2012 UK).

March 2009 – Lev Ponamarov leading human rights activist was severely beaten. (Decepton E Lucas ©2012 UK)

17 June 2009 – The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China met in the Ural mountains of Western Russia. The BRIC countries the first ever BRIC summit. (The shadow market. Eric J Weiner ©2010).

July 2009 – Abert Pehelintsev an anti corruption activist was shot with a stun gun  then told to shut up. (Deception E Lucas ©2012 UK).

July 2009 – Natalya Estem Irova organiser and researcher in Chechnya for Memorial Russian human rights organisation was abducted and murdered.  (Deception E Lucas ©2012 UK).

Late 2009 – A prominent semi retired officer Anton Surikov died mysteriously in late 2009. Last cake with a Russian agent. Ben Judah. Standpoint press 2010.

2010 – The Russian Mafia like the Mexican and Chinese Mafias control the market for organs. Ukraine laws do not prohibit organ trafficking. People ask why the government believes it has rights to peoples bodies. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

21 May 2010 – RIA Novosti. Medvedes ordered posting of all Russian World War Two archives to the internet by 2013.

Nov 2010 – Investigative journalist Oleg Kshin was beaten. (Deception E Lucas ©2012 UK).

2 Nov 2010 – Putin’s oil. The Yukov affair and the struggle for Russia. Martin Sixsmith 2010 Codefendant Platon Lebedev was tried.

7 Dec 2011 – Time.com Why Burmese are studying nuclear technology in Russia Simon Shuster Moscow.

7 Dec 2011 – Mail online Russia is so corrupt that itl be cheaper to the needs with Louis Vitten bags at Foie gres. Michael Burlengh.

2012 – Spies commissars and the early years of the Russian revolution. Robert Service. New York public office Worldcat database.

9 Nov 2012 – Stratfor Russians plan for the south stream pipeline Gazprom. Hungary the final transit station for Russian gas.

10 Nov 2012 – BBC Mideast Iraq cancels $4.2 bn Russian arms deal over corruption.

12 Nov 2012 – Reuters The Daily Star Lebanon. Iraq PM scraps $4.2 bln Russian arms deal cites graft corruption by Suadad al Salhm Baghdad.

17 Nov 2012 – Russias look askance at anti corruption drive even as new scandals arise. Moscow New York Times. $472 million in construction funding was misallocated say auditors.

17 Nov 2012 – Russian doll mafia sex scam targets UK man Daily Star by Scott Hesketh. Russian mafia fraud.

21 Nov 2012 – Russias latest matryoshka doll corruption scandal Bloomberg.

30 Nov 2012 – UK police order toxicology tests on body of Alexander Perephlichuy. Russian whistleblower who outed corruption by Maria Golovnina Reuters Russian mafia sentenced Swiss tax reward.

2014 – Russia organised crime. Phil Williams. Mafia gangs in Russia, history. Google books.

17 June 2014 – The Zhivargo affair. The Kremli.n the CIA and the battle over a forbidden book. Peter Finn. Declassified government files from May 1956. Amazon books.

10 July 2014 – AAP Newstalk ZB NZ. Raoul Wallenbeg saved tens of thousands of  Hungarian Jews before mysteriously dying in a Soviet prison. Wallenberg’s death in 1947 aged 34. Open Russian archives. For clues as to what, how he died. January 1945 Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviets and he died in Moscow prison, Opening Russian archives.

13 July 2014 – Strategy. Article archives. Intelligence, the great KGB archive heist, in 13 July 2014. On 1 July Britain gave public access to secret KGB files. In 1992 by Vasili Mostrokhin, a former KGB in charge of KGB archives. He died in 2004 aged 87, leaked archives. The Mitrokhin files.

20 July 2014 – A chronology of Russia from Yeltzin’s fall through Putin’s rise. Stratfor. Sergei Ilnitsky.

20 July 2014 – Dutch banks respond to reports that MH17 crash victims credit cards were looted. The Moscow Times. Maxim Zmeyev. Reuters.

22 July 2014 – Moscow police break up human trafficking ring. The Moscow Times. Allison Quinn. Amputees were forced to beg for change. ID was stolen and artificial legs were stolen too.

24 July 2014 – Bismark Tribune. Our perception of Vladimir Putin needs resetting. Mona Charen.