The following is another news item that I wanted to post for a long time. Perhaps some of the readers may recall that before he died the former Russian FSB agent turned British spy, Alexander Litvinenko, had written that the Armenian Parliament shootings of October 1999 was organized by top level officials within Russia's special services. Vladimir Putin was the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation at the time. I remember that soon after the assassinations, an official Russian news source reported that the assassinations were the work of Americans. Were they trying to distract and divert attention? I will try finding the article and post it here. In any case, with Russia on its knees in the 1990s, Armenia's official representatives were being seriously solicited by Washington. There were reports at the time that official Yerevan was ready to strike a political deal with Washington over Nagorno Karabakh and that it was being done independent of Moscow. The infamous Goble Plan was the deal being worked on between Armenian and American officials. So, were the assassinations in question carried out to stop it? Although Armenian authorities have not revealed any hard evidence implicating Russia in the parliamentary shootings, or the United States for that matter, it needs to be mentioned that the only political entity that gained directly from the bloody act was Moscow, and to some extent the pro-Russian ruling administration in Yerevan. If true, then what happened on October 27, 1999 vividly reveals just how seriously the Russian state takes its relationship with the Armenian Republic. This may concern some. However, to me, this is a comforting thought.
Arevordi
Arevordi
***
Alexander Litvinenko: Shootings of the Armenian parliament was organized by Russian special services
2005
Former employee of Russia's Federal Security Service, colonel Alexander Litvinenko, stated form his political asylum in Great Britain that the shooting of Armenian parliament on October 27 of 1999 was organized by Russian special services, more precisely Russian Military Reconnaissance.
"Pursuing certain political aims, the Russian special services often turn to subversive activity. Many know in highest echelons of Russia's special services that the shooting of the Armenian parliament in 1999 was organized by RMR. This sabotage enabled Russia's political elite to prevent signing of the agreement on Karabakh settlement. If I am not mistaken, it was said that president Aliyev and Kocharian were to sign a memorandum at the Istanbul summit of OSCE. The peaceful process was developing aloof from Russia's control and that made Russian special services to carry out the special mission in the Armenian parliament", Litvinenko told Real Azerbaijan online newspaper (www.realazer.com).
Litvinenko said that he personally recruited employees of Azerbaijan's special services who occupy high positions today as well. "I was working at the anti-terror department. We actively engaged against Azerbaijan. I personally recruited 12 employees of Azeri National Security Service", he noted. "There are now 30 agents of Russian special services. Why? Because Putin does not trust Ilham Aliyev. Putin needs alternative sources of information. All Russia's institutes of Azerbaijan carry out tasks of the center, watch and control Aliyev", Litvinenko said.
Source: AZG Armenian Daily #079, 03/05/2005
No comments:
Post a Comment
Dear reader,
New blog commentaries will henceforth be posted on an irregular basis. The comment board however will continue to be moderated on a regular basis. You are therefore welcome to post your comments and ideas.
I have come to see the Russian nation as the last front on earth against the scourges of Westernization, Americanization, Globalism, Zionism, Islamic extremism and pan-Turkism. I have also come to see Russia as the last hope humanity has for the preservation of classical western/European civilization, ethnic cultures, Apostolic Christianity and the concept of traditional nation-state. Needless to say, an alliance with Russia is Armenia's only hope for survival in a dangerous place like the south Caucasus. These sobering realizations compelled me to create this blog in 2010. This blog quickly became one of the very few voices in the vastness of Cyberia that dared to preach about the dangers of Globalism and the Anglo-American-Jewish alliance, and the only voice emphasizing the crucial importance of Armenia's close ties to the Russian nation. Today, no man and no political party is capable of driving a wedge between Armenia and Russia. Anglo-American-Jewish and Turkish agenda in Armenia will not succeed. I feel satisfied knowing that at least on a subatomic level I have had a hand in this outcome.
To limit clutter in the comments section, I kindly ask all participants of this blog to please keep comments coherent and strictly relevant to the featured topic of discussion. Moreover, please realize that when there are several "anonymous" visitors posting comments simultaneously, it becomes very confusing (not to mention annoying) trying to figure out who is who and who said what. Therefore, if you are here to engage in conversation, make an observation, express an idea or simply insult me, I ask you to at least use a moniker to identify yourself. Moreover, please appreciate the fact that I have put an enormous amount of information into this blog. In my opinion, most of my blog commentaries and articles, some going back ten-plus years, are in varying degrees relevant to this day and will remain so for a long time to come. Commentaries and articles found in this blog can therefore be revisited by longtime readers and new comers alike. I therefore ask the reader to treat this blog as a historical record and a depository of important information relating to Eurasian geopolitics, Russian-Armenian relations and humanity's historic fight against the evils of Globalism and Westernization.
Thank you as always for reading.