By Jamie Dettmer on July 5, 2020
Betrayal in Russia can mean almost all those days, human rights activists say.
The arrest of h8-prorecord last week of former defense journalist Ivan Safronov, accused of h8 treason, caused a foreign protest, however, his arrest is a component of a Kremlin-sponsored “espionage mania” that sees the network being thrown at traitors. and spies and tangled, not just hounds and educational researchers.
The variety of other Americans accused and condemned by texplacountry why and espionage has increased fivefold in Russia since 2011, with a remarkable acceleration after the Russian annexation of Crimea to Ukraine in 2014. Twelve other Americans were sentenced in 200 nine compared to 62 last year, according to MediaZona, an opposition website. Of the more than three hundred charged with texplacountry why or espionage, or disclosure of state secrets, since 2011, only the defendants have managed to obtain an acquittal.
Russia’s FSB intelligence firm is under President Vladimir Putin’s chairmanship to uncanopy’s spies, according to political activists and commentators. “Every day, without interruption, there are more searches, arrests, arrests and corrupt prosecutions,” said Ilya Klishin, opposition journalist and organizers of the Moscow 2011-12 protests opposed to voter fraud.
Infuse terror
“Perhaplaystation is consistent with the logic behind all this that the preference to intimidate the population, to instigate terror, in the literal sense of the word,” he wrote in an opinion piece for the Moscow Times in English. “It has become a mechanical morning ritual: it awakens and scans the scoop to determine who the government came to that day.”
He said the Russian government was the most important friend against journalists and historians and that “we could be next.”
In fact, several other Americans who would qualify as “the others” have been accused of spying on a chain of bizarre arrests in recent years, as well as a newlywed couple who have been in jail for a year.
Antonina Zimina arrested her husband, lawyer Konstantin Antonets, founded in Moscow, last year in 2018. Both are accused of blowing up the canopy of an FSB agent. Antonina’s father told the Kommersant newspaper according to that at his wedding reception in 2015, the agent, a friend, drank a lot, chatted about his paintings and took pictures with other guests. The happy couple sent copies of the marriage photos to their friends. These were posted on social networking sites with the agent in the photos.
It is never very clear whether the couple focused on their work, however, analysts say this is unlikely because Antonina worked as a representative of a Russian expert group founded through former Russian President Dmicheck, Medvedev, a Putin loyalist.
Other arrests came with the arrest of Oksana Sevastidi, a merchant consistent with Sochi in southern Russia, who sentenced seven years in prison for texting a friend in neighboring Georgia about an activity he saw using military equipment. Sevastidi spent two years in jail before Putin forgave him in the midst of a public tumult.
‘There is no espionage mania in Russia’
Last week, Putin’s spokesman, Dmicheck in Peskov, rejected claims that Moscow is riddled with spies or that the design of text-message arrests in the country and espionage is a show of force aimed at intimidating critics. “Compared, for example, to the US and the EU, the mania of espionage in Russia,” he said, adding that he was not very familiar with design in times of espionage in Russia.
He added, however, that foreign intelligence was aggressively opposed in Russia.
“It is biodiversity that foreign intelligence centers do not have in Russia, they paint day and night in opposition to Russian officials and intelligence officers,” he added, adding that Russian counterintelligence is “not going backwards either.”
The Russian hounds were surprised by the arrest of Ivan Safronov, now communications adviser to the Russian deception company Roscosmos. Safronov, 30, denies accusations of selling army secrets to the Czech Republic and the United States. During the years of the big block he was an army correspondent of great reputation for major Russian newspapers. So far, the government has not revealed much of the apple’s evidence of the treason rate.
Ivan Pavlov, the journalist’s lawyer, told independent announcer Dozhd that the fees were applicable with Safronov beyond the reports and not his paintings at the deceptive agency, which he joined in May. If convicted, Safronov could well be sentenced to 20 years in prison. Since his arrest, dozens of drafters have been arrested in procheck in opposition to their arrest, the maximum of them released.
“Now Vladimir Putin has been in place for 20 years and he doesn’t care what they think,” said one of Safronov’s supporters, journalist Grigory Pasko. He told the BBC: “There are no brakes now; there are no restrictions. They can do whatever they want, whatever they want and whoever they want.” In 1997, Pasko was charged with treason.
Safronov’s lawyer, Pavlov, says negative effects appear on FSB targeting. “A few years ago, there was a tendency [to attack] scientists, they started taking them en masse. Well, now it’s you [the journalists],” Meduza, an independent news website, told me.
Echoes of the past.
However, trends are born to merge, according to Ilya Klishin. He said Russian intelligence agencies seem even more emboldened because the Russian letter amended this month to allow Putin to remain in place until 2036. Suddenly, they seem to have “redoubled the activity” and “things feel different.”
For some, the country’s disposition of text why arrests are tantamount to a weak echo of the bloody 1930s, when communist dictator Joseph Stalin firmly demonstrated judgments opposed to his enemies or perceived as possible threats, pushing back a terrified position. Population. Moscow’s minutes also helped accentuate nationalist sentiment by giving the Russians the feeling that they were defending themselves under siege, under the threat not only of ideological enemies abroad, but also of the fifth column in combat.