KGB methods are back in action

Grigory Pasko, journalist

Echo Moskvy and Kasparov.Ru are both reporting a story about an attempt by an FSB officer to “recruit” a student and opposition activist at Moscow State University, threatening to expell him from the school under extremism charges if he did not cooperate and become a Kremlin turncoat within the student organizations he was a part of.  The student in question, Alexander Saveliev, a third year philology major, says that the officer introduced himself, flashed an ID under the name of Andrey Fedorov, and said that he was on an investigation on behalf of FSB Centre “E” to gather info on the activities of the Oborona and Solidarity student movements.

Russia’s spy services sure have a maniacal gravitation toward cryptic abbreviations… I’ve seen Service “R”, Administration “B”, and Protocol “X,” and now we have this Centre “E” looking after our country’s children.  As the bloggers would say, “Rzhunimagu!” [ROFL–Trans.]