Different testimony in a criminal case and in arbitration does not bother anyone yet, only because law enforcement officers do not combine all processes and decisions on them into one scheme. But lawlessness cannot last indefinitely, and in the event of a fair trial, the documents indicated on the paper with Ushakov’s name will greatly hinder the raiders.

General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation

The criminal case initiated against Ekimov was investigated for six years. Investigator of the Investigative Department of the Department of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Istra District, Petr Zvonkov, closes the case at the stage of signing the indictment. The position of the investigation is that Ekimov’s guilt has been fully proven.

It is impossible to find this criminal case now. All requests for information about where the materials are located are answered by PASMI journalists with a refusal to provide data.

Obviously, the Prosecutor General's Office knows where the case is. An inspection carried out there showed that it was illegally closed. The prosecutor's office insists on resuming the investigation, which is reported to Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin.

“The study of the case in the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation showed that the preliminary investigation into the second episode of V.S. Ekimov was accused. the act was terminated by the investigator unreasonably, the resolution in this part, in violation of part 4 of article 7 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, is not motivated and not substantiated on the collected materials of the criminal case,” the document says. – “Taking into account the above, as well as the fact that the investigation of the criminal case based on the appeals of Churin V.V. has taken on a protracted nature, the investigative body has repeatedly made illegal procedural decisions, which were canceled in the order of supervision and departmental control, in order to intensify the investigation, I propose to instruct the prosecutor of the Moscow region to cancel the illegal decision to terminate the investigation dated 04/02/2015, to take measures aimed at establishing all the circumstances of the crime crimes, making a lawful decision.”

The actions specified in the letter have not yet been completed. I would like to print the name of that employee of the prosecutor’s office who, after thousands of appeals from social activists, journalists and deputies, nevertheless saw signs of a violation of the law and reported this to higher management. But the source's name is hidden for his safety. Such a paradox.

PASMI sends a request to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika and the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin with a request to provide data on the deadlines for completing the actions specified in this document.

The FSB generals who currently lead this service form the basis of this key structure, which is designed to ensure the national security of the state. in its current state, it was formed in 1995, since then its leaders have received the closest attention.

Director of the FSB of Russia

Only FSB generals currently hold key leadership positions in this department. There are no lower-ranking military personnel in the positions of either first deputies or deputy service directors.

The Russian FSB is currently headed by Alexander Vasilievich Bortnikov. He has held this post since May 2008, after his predecessor Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev resigned.

Bortnikov was born in 1951 in the city of Molotov, which was the name of Perm at that time. He is a graduate of the Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, from which he graduated in Leningrad. In 1975 he graduated from the KGB Higher School. It was then that he began serving in state security agencies. Oversaw counterintelligence operations units. He remained in this area of ​​service even after the liquidation of the KGB and the formation of the FSB of Russia.

In 2003, Alexander Vasilievich Bortnikov headed the regional department for the Leningrad region and the city of St. Petersburg. Then he headed the economic security service working within the department. In 2006, he received the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. According to some reports, he received the next rank of army general a few months later - in December of the same year.

In 2008, he headed the department, simultaneously holding the post of chairman of the national. He is a member of various government and interdepartmental commissions on a wide range of issues.

Vladimir Kulishov

In order to get the most complete picture of the leadership of the FSB department, let us dwell on the personalities of the first deputy directors of this department. There are currently two of them in total. All of them are generals of the Russian FSB.

Vladimir Kulishov has the rank of army general. He has served as first deputy director since March 2013. At the same time, he heads the Border Service of the Russian Federation, which is also part of the FSB structure.

Kulishov Vladimir Grigorievich was born in the Rostov region in 1957. He studied at the Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers, which was based in Kyiv. After receiving a higher education diploma, he worked at a civil aviation plant.

He joined the structure of state security agencies in 1982. By that time, Vladimir Grigorievich Kulishov had already graduated from the KGB Higher School. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he continued to serve in state security agencies. In 2000, he joined the central office of the Russian FSB.

Then for a year he headed the department for the Saratov region. Since 2004, he began to supervise the department for combating terrorism, and headed the FSB department for the Chechen Republic. Since 2008, he served as deputy director of the federal department. In 2013, he received the post of first deputy and headed the Border Service.

He served in Chechnya, has the Order of Military Merit and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.

Sergey Smirnov

The FSB general is another first deputy director of the department. He comes from Chita, where he was born in 1950. In his infancy, the family moved to Leningrad, where he spent his childhood and youth. At school he was a classmate of Boris Gryzlov (ex-Minister of Internal Affairs and ex-Chairman of the State Duma) and Nikolai Patrushev (ex-Director of the Russian FSB).

He received his higher education at the Bonch-Bruevich Electrical Engineering Institute, which was opened in Leningrad. During my student years I was also closely acquainted with Gryzlov, they studied together again. Started working at the Central Research Institute of Communications.

He joined the structure of the KGB of the USSR in 1974. Since 1975 he has been working in the Leningrad administration. He first held operational and then management positions.

In 1998, he received a position in the central office of the FSB. Headed the department of internal security. In 2000, he became deputy director of the FSB, and since 2003, first deputy. He has the rank of Army General.

First head of the department

Throughout Russian history, 7 people have led the federal department of the FSB. The very first in 1993 was Colonel General Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko. At that time, the structure was just being formalized and was officially called the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation.

Golushko stayed in this post for only two months, after which he was appointed by President Boris Yeltsin as an adviser to the director of the FSB. During the years of Soviet power he headed the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR.

Stepashin - Director of the FSB

In March 1994, Lieutenant General Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin became head of the Federal Counterintelligence Service. Under him, the Federal Security Service was founded in April 1995. Formally, he became the first director of the FSB of Russia. True, he spent only two and a half months in this position.

After that, he did not get lost in high government positions. Stepashin was the Minister of Justice, headed and held the post of first deputy and until 2013 headed the Accounts Chamber. Currently he heads the supervisory board of a state corporation that promotes the reform of the Russian housing and communal services.

FSB leadership in the 90s

In 1995, Army General Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov came to the post of director of the FSB. He has been in the KGB system of the Soviet Union since 1964. He was the commandant of the Moscow Kremlin, and acted as a witness during the detention of the Deputy Prime Minister of one of the inspirers of the State Emergency Committee.

In the 90s, Barsukov was often criticized by his colleagues. In particular, accusing him of low professional qualities. For example, according to the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Sergeevich Kulikov, Barsukov’s entire service was spent in the Kremlin, he was responsible for the security of the top officials of the state. Many believed that Barsukov ended up at the head of the security service only thanks to Yeltsin’s security chief, Alexander Korzhakov, who had a certain influence on the president.

In June 1996, he resigned after a scandal during Yeltsin's election campaign. His name is closely connected with the detention of activists from the presidential election headquarters, Lisovsky and Evstafiev, who tried to carry out half a million dollars in a paper box.

Director Nikolay Kovalev

In 1996, the service was headed by FSB General Nikolai Dmitrievich Kovalev. Unlike his predecessors, he spent a little more than two years in this post. Nikolai Kovalev has served in state security agencies since 1974. He was appointed to the post of FSB director after a scandal related to alleged violations of the rules of currency transactions and the conduct of Boris Yeltsin's presidential campaign in 1996.

During his time leading the service, Nikolai Kovalev managed to establish productive work of the department. Its employees began to appear less often in the press due to various scandals.

After being released from office, he became the people's representative from the third to the seventh convocation inclusive. He is a member of the United Russia faction and heads the expert council of the Officers of Russia organization.

Future President

Kovalev was replaced in July 1998 by the future Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. He was the only head of the department who by that time did not have a military rank. Putin was only a reserve colonel.

The future head of state found himself in the KGB system back in 1975, immediately after graduating from Leningrad State University. He ended up in the KGB by assignment.

Having become the head of the FSB, he appointed well-known Patrushev, Ivanov and Cherkesov as his deputies. Conducted a reorganization of the entire service. In particular, he abolished the economic counterintelligence department, and also eliminated the counterintelligence department for providing strategic facilities. Instead, he created six new departments. Achieved a significant increase in employee salaries and uninterrupted financing. It is interesting that Putin himself wished to be the first civilian director of the FSB, refusing the rank of major general, which Yeltsin proposed to give him.

Putin left the post of FSB director on August 9, becoming chairman of the government. Two days earlier, Chechen fighters under the command of Khattab and Basayev entered Dagestan. The creation of the Islamic State of Dagestan was proclaimed.

Already prime minister, Putin led the operation against the militants. In mid-September they were finally driven out of Dagestan.

Nikolay Patrushev

After Vladimir Putin moved to senior positions in the federal government, the FSB was headed by Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev. He held this post for 9 years.

Just during the period of his work there was a confrontation with militants and terrorists. The Federal Security Service began to occupy a key position in matters of ensuring the country's security.

Patrushev currently holds the post of Secretary of the Federal Security Council.

FSB General Ugryumov

Over the years, a large number of officers held the post of deputy director of the FSB. Perhaps the most notable of them was Admiral German Alekseevich Ugryumov. This is the only naval officer to hold such a high position.

Ugryumov is from Astrakhan and joined the Navy in 1967. In 1975 he found himself in the Soviet KGB system. Supervised a special department of the Caspian military flotilla. In the 90s, he became one of the initiators of the case against journalist Grigory Pasko, who was prosecuted for espionage.

As deputy director of the FSB, he oversaw the work of the Special Purpose Center. The famous special groups "Vympel" and "Alpha" belonged to this unit. Notable for carrying out counter-terrorism operations in the Chechen Republic. In particular, the release of Gudermes in 1999, the capture of one of the militant leaders Salman Raduev, and the release of hostages in the village of Lazorevsky are associated with his figure.

In May 2001, he was awarded the rank of admiral. The next day he died of a heart attack.

FSB general uniform

It is quite simple to distinguish the generals to whom our article is devoted by their form.

It was last changed in 2006. Now the uniform is a khaki color, distinguished by buttonholes and chevrons, as well as the cornflower blue color of the gaps on the shoulder straps.

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The main candidate for the post of the new head of the “K” department of the FSB was an employee of the intelligence service’s Internal Security Directorate, Ivan Tkachev. He was involved in the development of the case of MVD generals Sugrobov and Kolesnikov

FSB building in Moscow (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

"Banking" department

The main contender for the post of head of the “K” department of the FSB was the head of the 6th service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate, Ivan Tkachev, an interlocutor close to the counterintelligence leadership told RBC, and confirmed a source in the FSB.

Tkachev’s appointment is expected in the near future, says one of RBC’s interlocutors. But his candidacy has yet to be approved by FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov. If the appointment takes place, for Tkachev the transition from the post of head of the service to the post of head of the department will be “a jump through several steps at once,” says a source in the intelligence service.

The 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB was created in 2008, it includes only 35 people, says an RBC source. The powers of this unit were not officially announced.

Tkachev played a key role in the case ex-head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, says RBC’s FSB interlocutor.

Sugrobov and his deputy Boris Kolesnikov were detained in 2014 on charges of provoking a bribe, exceeding official authority and organizing a criminal community. In June of the same year, Kolesnikov died after falling from a balcony in the Investigative Committee building after interrogation.

Resignations in two departments

According to Rosbalt, resignation reports were written by the heads of two more departments that are part of the structure of the FSB SEB - these are the heads of divisions “P” and “T”, which are engaged in counterintelligence support for industrial and transport enterprises, respectively.

“The heads of the entire economic bloc of the FSB are leaving the department. All of them have been in place for a long time, age. But, of course, this is not the reason for the resignation. Recently, the SEB's relations with the Internal Security Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation have become strained; scandalous stories began to arise that developed into criminal cases or so-called operational reports. There was a rather difficult situation last summer, but then somehow the parties were “taken to the corners.” Now it didn’t work out,” said a Rosbalt source in the intelligence services.

According to him, Oleg Feoktistov, who is now the deputy head of the department, could become the head of the CSS.

For ten years we have been convinced that the FSB is the only structure that can save the country from chaos and lawlessness. That the FSB brought together people united by the idea of ​​selfless service to the Fatherland. Under this pretext, security officers occupied key positions in the state apparatus, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Drug Control, and entered the boards of directors of the largest banks and corporations.

The results of the decade do not inspire optimism: the southern borders of Russia are seething, terrorist attacks occur regularly, drug addiction has become a national disaster, the security officer Nurgaliev, assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, completely ruined the work of the ministry, and during the years of “chekism” the country was completely corroded by corruption.

The time has come to take a closer look at this forge of personnel. In the end, the Russians support this intelligence service from their own pockets and have the right to demand an account.

Myths and leadership

Like any government structure, the FSB is a complex mechanism where the interests of various clans, communities and groups are intertwined. Now at the helm are the St. Petersburg clan and people close to the former FSB director Nikolay Patrushev(now Secretary of the Security Council). They are the ones who make the difference in Lubyanka. Judge for yourself.

Director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov— graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers. From 2003 to 2004 - head of the FSB department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Under Patrushev, he headed the economic security service (SEB) of the FSB.

First Deputy Sergei Smirnov - began his service in the KGB department for the Leningrad region. From 2001 to 2003 - head of the FSB department for St. Petersburg and the region. In 2003 he was transferred to the capital.

First Deputy, Director of the Border Service Vladimir Pronichev - in 1994 he was appointed head of the FSK department for Karelia, replacing Patrushev in this post. In 2001, Patrushev took Pronichev to Moscow. After the tragic events of the hostage taking and death at the Dubrovka Theater Center in Moscow in 2004, by secret decree of Putin he was awarded the title “Hero of Russia.”

Deputy Director Vyacheslav Ushakov - in 1998 he was the plenipotentiary representative of the president in Karelia (he worked simultaneously with Patrushev). Since 2002 - Head of the Operational Information Coordination Department (UKOI). In July 2003, he was appointed deputy director of the FSB. The only exceptions are three of Bortnikov’s deputies: Muscovites Yuri Gorbunov and Sergei Buravlev, as well as Vladimir Kuleshov, who previously headed the FSB Directorate for the Saratov Region.

Even the chairman of the public council under the FSB, Vasily Titov (vice-president of VTB) and his deputy Alexander Afronichev (chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Nord) are both natives of St. Petersburg. The rest of the council members are mostly businessmen with a KGB background, police officers, former State Duma deputies and the rector of the Church of Sophia the Wisdom of God on Lubyanka and the Church of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon at the FSB hospital, Archpriest Alexander (Mironov).

At the same time, there is not a single prominent public figure, human rights activist or independent journalist on the council.

In places

Smaller generals, if they are not from the banks of the Neva, have a completely different flight path. Some wander around the outback. Others still make it to the capital.

For example, the current head of the FSB Directorate for the Volgograd Region, Sergei Kokorin, began his service in the KGB of Kazakhstan. Then he commanded security officers in Orenburg and the Sakhalin region. At the age of 52 he was transferred to Volgograd. According to our source, General Kokorin was twice going to be transferred to Moscow, but at the last moment the decision was canceled.

Now clouds have gathered over the chief security officer of Volgograd. Firstly, a strategic bridge across the Volga “danced” under his nose, during the construction of which the Accounts Chamber revealed gross financial irregularities. And, secondly, last year there was a big scandal within the department: after an open letter to the president, the head of the department for combating terrorism and extremism, Colonel Pyotr Samarsky, disappeared without a trace.

According to the official version, Samarsky was detained by FSB officers at Domodedovo airport and escaped while being transported to Volgograd. But relatives do not believe the officials and believe that the colonel was killed or kidnapped by his colleagues. The other day, Samarsky’s mother sent a video message to President Medvedev to the editor, where she begs him to find her son.

But for other heads of the FSB, no scandals are an obstacle, and they manage to move to the central office. By a strange coincidence, the “lucky ones” tirelessly fought against smuggling, illegal fishing and were seen in stories involving the redistribution of large property.

For example, a longtime hero of our publications is the former head of the Primorye FSB Directorate, Lieutenant General Yuri Aleshin. This character appeared in history when entrepreneurs and security officials close to them divided shares in the Nakhodka fishing port. Among other things, on the Novaya website we posted telephone wiretaps obtained as part of criminal case No. 4802. One of the participants in telephone conversations, in a voice reminiscent of the voice of General Aleshin, advised the assistant director of the port which of the FSB officers was better to contact in order to prevent entrepreneurs get shares, or how to organize police support and stop bailiffs. In addition, according to media reports, Aleshin’s relatives turned out to be a man with a troubled criminal past. The husband of the eldest daughter, Kanakbek Kurmangaliev, nicknamed Kan, previously served a prison sentence for torture and kidnapping. Now Yuri Nikolaevich holds a responsible position in the FSB SEB.

By the way, our experts put forward three versions of why the income and property declarations of the FSB leadership were not made public:

a) allegedly obvious bullshit was placed on the president’s desk, and the head of state demanded to present a new document;

b) the property allegedly indicated in the declarations somehow did not fit in with “cool heads, warm hearts and clean hands”;

c) the declarations showed that the FSB was overstaffed, and the Kremlin took a break.

Blatnye

Following the St. Petersburg generals and the lucky generals in the unspoken hierarchy are the thieves. In other words, those employees whose relatives are generals, high-ranking officials or respectable businessmen. Usually, such “security officers” leave the service after five to seven years and move to cushy places in large banks and oil companies - supposedly to monitor business affairs on behalf of the “watchful eye.”

The most striking example is the sons of the same Security Council Secretary Patrushev - Dmitry and Andrey. Both are graduates of the FSB Academy. Today Dmitry works as a senior vice president at VTB and is responsible for working with large state-owned companies. And Andrey in 2006 was appointed advisor to the chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft.

Another example is the eldest daughter of FSB deputy director Ushakov, Marianna. After graduating from school, the girl entered the FSB Academy. Now Marianna is no longer fighting external and internal enemies - her name can be seen among the founders of the trading house "Arizo", LLC "Yunika MS" (production and sale of finishing materials), CJSC "Platon Service", LLC "Aigers" (delivery to rent of space in Sheremetyevo) and the “Youth Leisure Center” (office in the central air terminal).

Roofers

But not everyone achieves success thanks to kinship. The majority of security officers are “self-made men.” Basically, they “made themselves” at the expense of the KGB roofs. Roofers must be divided into several categories. Some faces actually come to shootouts with bandits, resolve conflict situations with corrupt cops and officials, and shield companies from financial audits. Others receive bribes without leaving their offices. The latter are the majority. As a rule, the protectors are involved in smuggling, drug supplies and illegal financial flows. Businessmen pay some roofs just in case. But the benefits of this “cooperation” are minimal.

A couple of years ago, bandits kidnapped the son of a famous Moscow businessman and announced a multimillion-dollar ransom. The unfortunate father turned for help to his roof - the FSB general, to whom he paid 30 thousand dollars a month. During the conversation, the general said that 100 thousand dollars would be needed to investigate the crime. Then he asked for another 25 thousand bucks. But the son never returned home. (The names of all participants in the drama are known to the editors.)

In the end, the businessman hired a private detective, who freed the hostage.

— Did the general return the money? - I asked.

— He said that the cops cheated him. Although I know that he didn’t lift a finger,” the businessman answered.

Ransomware

According to our source, Russian courts are simply overwhelmed with criminal cases in which FSB officers appear as extortionists.

Now the military prosecutor's office is investigating criminal case No. 33/03/0111-10. Three FSB officers are involved in the case (an operative from the capital's FSB Directorate, an employee of the FSB Central Operations Center and a colonel from the Internal Security Department), two policemen (one serves in the Internal Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) and a senior investigator for particularly important cases of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District. According to investigators, first the security officers and their accomplices tried to squeeze the business out of the businessman, and then extorted a foreign car from his common-law wife. The story received loud publicity thanks to the courage of Muscovite Olesya N.

“Many people told me, don’t get involved with the FSB and give them everything,” the girl recalls. “But I said to myself: “Why should I be afraid of these punks with the Xivs?”

The story is like this. Olesya’s common-law husband, Alexey V., decided to go into the restaurant business. Soon a suitable premises was found, but during the registration process it turned out that the previous owner owed rent. Alexey turned for help to his close friend, security officer Andrei Matalin, who had connections in the Moscow government. A couple of months later, Alexey inquired about the result. In response, Matalin proposed to include his businessman brother among the founders. Alexey refused and demanded that the documents for the restaurant be returned.

And Alexey started to get into trouble: police officers from the Central Administrative District Internal Affairs Directorate opened a criminal case against him and put him on the federal wanted list. Having learned about this, Matalin involved his colleague - 24-year-old employee of the FSB TsOS Vladislav Kotyukov. They arranged a meeting for the businessman near the Novoslobodskaya metro station, where they allegedly wanted to solve problems with the restaurant. True, the operatives of the Central Administrative District Internal Affairs Directorate were informed in advance about the upcoming rendezvous. As soon as the fugitive appeared, he was immediately arrested.

Matalin: “...Kotyukov and I were guided by the desire to assist the police in apprehending the criminal. I informed Krylov and another criminal investigation officer who was with him about the proposed meeting. We immediately asked Krylov not to make the arrest in our presence and not to inform him that Kotyukov and I had assisted him. We also told Krylov that V. always has a traumatic pistol with him...”

Kotyukov: “...Having been left alone with Matalin in a cafe after V.’s arrest, we realized that he would immediately understand that we were involved in this, but we didn’t want that. Subsequently, in order to ward off suspicions of involvement in the arrest, we decided after work to visit investigator Bykov at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District of Moscow and demonstrate V.’s participation in his fate. For this we bought mineral water and cigarettes for him...”

But Matalin and Kotyukov decided not to stop at charity. They told his common-law wife that they could release Alexey for a certain fee, and demanded her Nissan Murano car as a fee. Olesya agreed.

A week later, the girl began to wonder why her husband was still under arrest? To which the security officers said: it has not yet been possible to release him, but they allegedly agreed that Alexei would be placed in a good cell where the criminals would not “let him go.” Olesya was smart enough - she recorded all the conversations on a voice recorder:

“They immediately returned the Nissan, albeit all broken, and began to beg me to take back the application. They turned out to be very nice and polite people,” Olesya smiles.

There is one more detail in the case that eloquently shows how young security officers lose their basic sense of self-preservation due to impunity. Who do you think Kotyukov registered the Nissan for? To a distant relative, acquaintance, neighbor? No matter how it is: on your wife!

In turn, the security officers’ lawyers are going to prove in court that there was no extortion and Olesya herself provoked the situation.

The scammers

The following characters in the office do not need a furry hand. The dark deeds of these characters flourish thanks to the old fear of Russians of the Cheka-KGB-FSB, when it is enough to flash your face and everyone will fall in line. In fact, the scammers have never seen a living spy, since they serve as petty operatives, technicians, or sort through pieces of paper. Their destiny is to breed suckers. The special operation is divided into several stages:

a) choice of victim;

b) creating a nervous environment;

c) nightmare;

d) confidential conversation;

e) receiving money or other preferences.

This is how a businessman from the Moscow region, Roman M., described his situation. At some party, he was introduced to the supposed curator of the district through the FSB - a certain Mikhail Anatolyevich (later he turned out to be an employee of the technical department).

“I heard, I heard about you,” Mikhail Anatolyevich said, shaking his hand. Have you already solved your problems?

“I have no problems,” the businessman answered in surprise.

- It’s strange, but my boys work for you...

Throughout the next month, Roman was on pins and needles. It seemed to him that he was being watched and his phones were being tapped. At the same time, some people called the office and asked which tax office he submitted his declarations to. Finally, Roman could not stand it and contacted Mikhail Anatolyevich.

“When he showed me some kind of certificate for 2003, where I allegedly did not pay taxes in full, I realized that I was being scammed. I asked directly what he needed? In response, Mikhail Anatolyevich asked to include his brother among the founders.

“We agreed that I pay for his brother’s lunches at a nearby cafe.”

Hard workers

The hard workers are FSB special forces soldiers and operatives who often go on business trips to hot spots and rescue hostages. These faces die first and know perfectly well what awaits them if they are captured by the militants. Hence the excessive cruelty during special operations, “frostbite” and disregard for the lives of others. And there are no prospects ahead. After leaving the service, only a few get jobs as security guards for wealthy businessmen or bandits. The rest will be scattered in private security companies and will open and close the gates for the rest of their lives.

It has long been noticed: when you start talking about corruption in the FSB, it is not the hard workers who are most indignant, but their bosses in official foreign cars with flashing lights.

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