June 2015: Russia research

RUSSIA

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

1347 – The first known outbreak of the bubonic plague was in southen Ukraine near the Black sea. During the same year, infected rats on a ship from the Crimea reached Sicily and in March 1348 the bubonic plague struck Florence Italy. More than 96,000 people died, until it ended in October. The plague spread throughut Europe, in the Dark ages, killing about half the population. It was called the Black Death, because of black bloches on victims bodies. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1653 – On 25 Dec 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Lowering of the red flag at midnight. The Soviet Union went back to where it had been in 1653. Russia and Europe. (The gerat cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

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).

Late 1700s – One of the main libraries in Russia was the M E Saltykov. Shchedrin state public library in St Petersburg was started by Empress Catherina the Great. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1790s – Britain and Russia came close to blows over Crimea. (History today. Aug 2014 UK).

17 Sept 1812 – The French army under Napoleon reached Kremlin Moscow. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 17 Sept 2014).

19 Nov 1824 – Storm causes St Petersburg floods, killing 10,000 people. (Chch Star NZ. 19 Nov 2014. today in history).

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).

1839-1881 – In 1839 the heir to the Russian throne visited England. Czar Alexander II. Young Victoria and the 20 year old Romanov. In 1881 Alexander II was blown apart by a terrorist bomb. (Royal babylon. Karl Shaw ©1999 US).

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

1862 – The largest library in Russia, the Lenin state library in Moscow dates from 1862. 25 million books and two and a half million manuscripts. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

22 April 1870 – Nikolai Lenin was born. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 22 April 2015).

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).

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).

22 June 1903 – The Jews in Russia. Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.

9 Jan 1905 – Russian striking workers and their families were at the Winter palace in St Petersburg. They were fired on by Tzarist troops. 500 people were killed. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

3 Nov 1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia signed a document of amnesty for political parties. (HistoryOrb.com).

15 July 1905 – The Russian internal situation. West Coast Times. Papers Past NZ.

5 Oct 1906 – The Siberian exiles or a struggle for freedom. Otago Witness NZ. Papers past.

1911 – Meyer Lansky’s family fled in 1911. From Grodno in Belarus, which was part of the Russian empire. To escape pogroms there. He was born Maier Suchowljansky, and his name was changed at school in Manhattan US. (The mafia at war. Tim Newark ©2007 Italy).

1917 – Russian revolution leads to nationalized private property.

1917 – Russia suffered two million dead and five million wounded and the war was a disaster. Russians overthrew Nicholas II in March 1917. Alexander Kerensky took over but kept Russia in the war. On 7 Nov 1917 the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky seized power. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1917-33 – The red terror of the Bolsheviks after 1917 killed at least half a million people. Collectivism in 1928-33 uprooted up to 4.5 million peasants and up to five million people in Ukraine and elsewhere died of starvation. The great famine in Ukraine. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

21 March 1917 – The revolution in Russia. Maoriland worker NZ. Papers past.

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).

5 Dec 1917 – Nicholas Lenin of Russia. Maoriland worker. Papers Past NZ.

31 Aug 1918 – Murder of Moisen Urisky head of the Petrograd Cheka and attempted murder of Lenin. The Cheka stormed the British embassy in Petrograd killing naval attaché captain Cromie. Lockhart was arrested and held in Lubyanka prison in Moscow. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery (c)crown 2010 UK).

March 1919 – The Comintern, the third Communist international was set up by Lenin to promote world revolution. (M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).

26 March 1919 – Bolshevism.Grey River Argus. Papers Past NZ.

Dec 1919 – The US Immigration Bureau deported Goldman and Berkman and 249 others to the Soviet union on the “Soviet ark” the USS Buford. Many of these people disappeared during the Stalin years. (FBI 100 years. Unofficial history. Henry M Holden ©2008 US).

1920 – Lenin, soon after the Bolshevik revolution, a Congress was held in Baku in 1920, it was attended by 2,000 Asian delegations. Bolshevik Grigorii Zinoviev. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

10 April 1920 – A Socialist on Bolshevism. NZ Truth. Papers Past NZ.

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.

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.

12 Nov 1927 – Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist party, Stalin. (Today in history. Chch Star NZ. 12 Nov 2014 ).

1930s – Moscow, photos of Russians executed during Stalin’s purges. Stored files, folders and items belonging to prisoners of the gulag. Human rights group Memorial documents abuses of Stalin. From 1988 to 1999 they were busy with research. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

1930s – Under Soviet Communism, there was famine and starvation. Secret police, kulaks were killed for resisting forced collectivisation. More than 13 million people died under Stalin’s rule. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1930-60s – 1960 Vladimir Putin was age 8. Yan Berzin was his hero the founder of Soviet military intel, creator of spying in all European countries. Arrested and shot in the late 1930s after an anti-Stalin plot. At age 16 Vladimir Putin went to KGB HQ in Leningrad and tried to sign up. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 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).

1937-38 – Stalin’s purges of 1937 and 1938 claimed up to 1.7 million victims, more than 700,000 people were executed without trial. During the war, one million ethnic Germans, 1,5 million Chechnyans, Crimeans and Tartars and others were deported. After the war a million people were taken from Nazi POW camps to the Russian gulag. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

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.

1939-56 – David Holloway. Stalin and the bomb. The Soviet Union and atomic energy. 1994.

1941 – The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Involved 80% of the German Wehrmach, or three million men. It was the largest land invasion in history. (Reclaiming Parkland JFK. James DiEugenio ©2013 US).

1941-49 – June 1941, 10,000 Estonians, including a thousand of the Jewish population, were deported to the depths of Russia, 2,500 children, 50,000 people were deported, executed or conscripted into the Red Army. Communist terror. Hitler attacked the Soviet Union a few days later. In March 1949 deportations reached their peak, 20,000 people, including women and children, were deported to Siberia. Estonia lost one sixth of its population at Nazi and Soviet hands. (The new cold war. Edward Lucas ©2008 US).

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

3 July 1941 – Joseph Stalin’s broadcast to the Soviet people. The Soviet Union Today. Moscow Aug 1941.

Aug 1941 – The seige of Leningrad began, during which time 650,000 people starved to death. The city was bombed and cut off from food and supplies, the seige lasted for 900 days. (Bad times in histroy. Roland C Barker (c)2001 US).

8 Sept 1941 – 19 Dec 1999 Putin became acting president. The Soviet city of Leningrad where Vladimir Putin was born in 1952, a city of hunger, poverty and destitution. 8 Sept 1941 Nazi troops seized Leningrad, which ended 872 days later. More than one million civilians died, killed by hunger and artillery fire, famine and bombs. Starving and freezing to death. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

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).

12 Nov 1941 – Germany’s drive to take Moscow was halted. (Today in history. Chch Star NZ. 12 Nov 2014).

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).

1944 – Chechnya under Soviet rule, Stalin thought they were siding with the Nazis, so he deported them en masse to Kazakhstan. Nikita Khrushchev later allowed them to return. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

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 Soviet Sharashkha dedicated to communications, got the archives of the Berlin labs of the Phillips corp, which the Soviets got in 1945. A science lab and police rolled into one. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

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 – Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in Yalta Crimea to discuss the last phase of the war. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 4 Feb 2015).

2 Sept 1946 – New mass graves found in Saxony. Russian prisoners who died of typhoid. Manchester Guardian UK.

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.

1947-53 – From 1947 to 51 the CIA intel section responsible for the Soviet Union was parachuting Russian speaking DP, Ukrainians or Belarussians into the Soviet Union. Polish aircrews were flying from the Middle East and Italy. Peer de Silva operations by 1952. It fizzled by 1953. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

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

1948-53 – Jonathan Brent. Vladimir Naumov. Stalin’s last crime, the plot against Jewish doctors. 2003.

5 Oct 1948 – Ashgahat Turkmenistan USSR 110,000 people were killed 7.3 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

6 Oct 1948 – Ashgbat Turkmenistan 110,000 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

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, Communist Socialist parties. (Stasi files. ©203 A Glees).

1949 – Isaac Deutscher. Stalin a political biography.

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

1949-59 – The CIA sent by air agents into the Soviet Union REDSOX program. Strewn with disaster. Center for the study of intelligence.CSI.

July 1949 – Stalin’s conversations with Liu Shaoqi during his secret visit to Moscow in July 1949. Chinese Communism. Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi and Asian countries. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

Sept 1949 – The CIA and SIS were infiltrating émigrés into eastern Europe and the Soviet union. Nearly all of them were caught and executed. They were betrayed by Kim Philby, SIS officer and spy for Russia. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

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).

Jan 1950 – Mao Zedong’s visit to Moscow. Pravda published Liu Shaoqi’s speech. Two weeks later, Mao, while still in Moscow, announced a new Chinese govt. Ho in Vietnam. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

25 May 1951 – Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, Soviet spies in the UK foreign office, fled on a channel ferry. Soviet intel files, like the Mitrokhin archives. The Papers of Stalin’s own Commissariat are still closed. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

4 Nov 1952 – 9 earthquake. Timetoast.

March 1963 – Stalin died. Two and a half million people were still in slave camps and there were general food shortages. Even Beria was head of the Russian secret police. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress (c)2009 US).

12 Aug 1953 – Semipalatinsk test site in Kazhakstan. The first Soviet hydrogen bomb explosion. Andrei Sakhahrov. Buildings were destroyed by the blast and eagles were singed. Thousands of birds were destroyed in the test, burned and blinded. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1954 – Nikolai Khokhlov, a Soviet defector, told of the Kremlin’s assassination program. He survived an attempt by Russian agents to kill him with radioactive poison. (Putin’s Labyrinth. Steve Levine©2008 2009 US).

1954 – Nikolai Khokhlov, first known victim of nuclear isotope poisoning. A KGB officer who defected in 1954 while on an assassination mission. Three years later he survived a KGB attempt to assassinate him. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

14 Sept 1954 – The Soviet Union sent 40,000 troops to a test area for military exercises 30 minutes after an atomic test in Totsk Kazakhstan.

1956-57 – In Dec 1957 Nikolai Bulganin, chairman of the Soviet council of ministers, the Ragach plan. A nuclear free zone in central Europe and withdrawl of US and Soviet forces. Discussed since 1956. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis. ©1997 US).

Feb 1956 – The 20^th Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet union took place in Moscow. The first since Stalin’s death. Khrushchev condemned Stalin. The Communist party leader in Poland died soon after the 20^th party congress. Boleslaw Beirut. The Poles released political prisoners and removed Stalinists from the govt. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

21 Aug 1957 – The Soviet Union tested the worlds first intercontinental ballistic missile, launched from Kazakhstan. The warhead splashed down in the Pacific ocean 4,000 miles away. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1959-60 – On 1 May 1960 Gary Powers, a pilot recruited by the CIA, was shot down over the Soviet Union in a U-2 spy plane which took of from Peshawa Pakistan. After Powers returned to the US he suggested it might have been Oswald that gave the Soviets info about his flight. In 1959 when Oswald defected to the Soviet Union. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

6 March 1960 – J Edgar Hoover spoke to the Justice dept saying an imposter may be using Oswald’s birth certificate in Russia.

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.

Aug to Oct 1961 – 31 Aug 1961 Moscow announced a new round of explosions a 100 megaton bomb. Kennedy at the time of the Berlin wall going up. The Novaia Zemlya test site 30 Oct 1961 an explosion of 50 megatons. The single largest blast ever detonated, or has been since, on the planet. The flash was visible 600 miles away and the fireball and mushroom cloudwas seen 40 miles away, the island was destroyed. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis. ©1997 US).

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.

1962 – Milovan Djilas. Conversations with Stalin.

1962 – Milovan Djilas. Conversation with Stalin. Michael B Petrovich. New York. Harcourt Brace and world.

1962 – On 22 Oct 1962 Penkovsky was arrested by the KGB in Moscow. By the beginning of 1962 Penkovsky and Chisholm suspected they were under surveillance in Moscow. (Too secret to long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

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).

1963-64 – In mid 1963 Khrushchev received word that JFK wanted a 2 or 3 day summit meeting betweeen the US and USSR. A week later JFK was assassinated in Dallas. On 24 Oct 1964 Khrushchev was ousted from office in the USSR. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

Sept 1963 – By 1962 Burgess was ill with diabetes in Russia. Sept 1963 it was announced that he had died of a heart attack in a Moscow hospital aged 52. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1964 – Leonid Brezhnev organised the coup against Khrushchev in 1964. In 1966 Brezhnev took over the Soviet Communist party, by using the title of General Secretary, one not used since Stalin. Socialism. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

6 March 1967 – Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in the US. (HistoryOrb.com).

1968 – The death of Adolf Hitler. Unknown details from Soviet archives. C Bezymenskii. New York. Harcourt Brace world. Worldcat database.

1970s-1984 – Putin joined the KGB in the late 1970s, the secret police. 1980s Leningrad Putin worked for the 5^th dept. 1984 he was sent to spying school in Moscow for a year. The 32 year old KGB. He was assigned to Dresden Germany. US military bases in West Germany were a target. Collected press clippings, info by the KGB. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

12 March 1972 – Russians fear new cold war. Dav Murarka. The Observer 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).

1978 – Alexander Rabinovitch. The Bolsheviks come to power. The revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. New York Norton.

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.

9 March 1981 – The Kremlin counts the cost of a cold war. The Guardian UK.

Nov 1982 to March 1985 – Brezhnev’s funeral was in Nov 1982, it was followed by Andropov’s funeral in Feb 1984, and Chernyenko’s funeral in March 1985. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress (c)2009 US).

1984 – Jiri Hochman. The Soviet Union and the failure of collective security 1934-38. Ithaca Cornell uni press.

1984 – Jonathan Haslan. The Soviet Union and the struggle for collective security in Europe 1933-39. New York St Martins press.

1985-89 – Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in March 1985. Two years later he released some Soviet dissidents from prison. A failed coup in August 1991. 1989 Dresden Germany, protesting, wanting to emigrate to the west. In August tens of thousands from east Germany went to the west. Oct 1989 more than l,000 people were arrested. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

1985-90 – On 15 Jan 1990 Berlin protesting the detentions by the secret police, people stormed the Stasi building in Dresden Germany. On 16 March 1987 a massive explosion in St Isaac square in Leningrad. The blast tore down the Angleterre hotel. Mikhail Gorbachev had become the leader of the Soviet state in March 1985. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

10 March 1985 – By 1985 the Soviet Union’s foreign debt was about $30 billion. Eastern Europe’s foreign debt was about $70 billion. On 10 March 1985 Constantin Chernyenko became the third Soviet leader to die in two and a half years. The next day the Politburo appointed 54 year old Mikhail Gorbachev as leader. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

11 March 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 11 March 2015).

1986 – Robert Conquest. The harvest of sorrow. Soviet collectivisation and the terror famine. New York Oxford uni press.

8 Jan 1986 – KGB figure called a spy for France. New York Times. KGB officer working in Moscow told French intel officials Soviet plans to steal western technology secrets.

April 1986 – The accident at the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, with the death of 28 people and within weeks many more. Winds spread increasing levels of radiation across parts of Europe. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

26 April 1986 – A reactor at a Soviet nuclear plant in Chernobyl exploded. At least 31 people died instantly. Radiation entered the atmosphere, causing illness and unknown damage. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1987-88 – Jan 1987 Gorbachev, libraries across Russia began closing access to materials that had been kept under lock and key. On 17 June 1988. In Feb 1988 conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK)

20 Dec 1987 – Death of a Moscow Mafia man. Andrew Wilson. The Observer 1901-2003 UK.

1988-1991 – On 1 Dec 1988 a new law ended the Communist party monopoly on state power. 19 Jan 1990 shortages of food, catastrophic. In June 1989 rations of tea and soap. Hunger in Leningrad. May 1991 food supplies. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

1989 – Fritz Ermarth, the chairman of the National Intel Council in 1989 said that Moscow had warheads filled with two deadly viruses, plague and smallpox, against which the west had no defence. The Soviet Union had been developing biological weapons since 1974. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

24 March 1989 – Inquiry blames Stalin, not Nazis for mass graves. Conor O’Clery. The Irish Times Dublin.

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

1990 – Robert C Tucker. Stalin in power, the revolution from above 1928-41. New York Norton.

1990 – Vladimir Kuzichkin. Insider the KGB, my life in Soviet espionage.

1990 – Richard Pipes. The Russian revolution. New York Knopf.

18 March 1990 - $54 million Russian mafia riddle. Michael Gillard. The Observer 1901-2003 UK.

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

1991 – Robert Conquest. Stalin breaker of nations. New York Viking Penguin.

1991 – Dimitri Volkogonov. Stalin, triumph and tragedy. Harold Shukman. New York Grove Weidenfeld.

1991 – al Qaeda’s heroin trafficking and Islamic Hawala money transfers. Porn and sex slavery. Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar’s drug trafficking and money laundering. The Chechen mafiya. Sex slavery and extortion. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1991-2003 – August 1991there were shortages of food and basic goods. Putin is a lawyer by training. On 17 April 2003 while walking from his car to his home in northern Moscow, Yushenkov was shot in the chest four times. Sergei Yushenkov. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

20 Aug 1991 – KGB man’s cold war view. The Guardian UK.

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

1992 – Georgi Arbatov. The System. An insiders life in Soviet politics. New York Times books.

1992-1998 – The richest man in Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was born in 1963. In 1992 Khodorkovsky had his own bank. In 1995-96 Khodorkovsky came into possession of Yukos, an oil conglomorate with reserves among the largest in the world. In the 1998 financial crisis his bank went out of business and workers were starving. (The man with no face. Mesha Gesse ©2012 UK).

7 May 1992 – Gorbachev, cold war era. Former Soviet president takes issue with Churchill’s iron curtain speech. Simon Tisdale The Guardian UK.

6 Aug 1992 – 11 people die in Moscow Mafia battle. The Irish Times 1921-now Dublin.

6 Aug 1992 – Mafia gunfight in Moscow. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.

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

1993 – David Remnick. Lenin’s tomb, the last days of the Soviet empire. New York Random house.

1993 – Amy Knight. Beria, Stalin’s first lieutenant. Princeton uni press.

17 July 1993 – Sites of mass graves found, from Stalin’s era . All Thinsg Considered. Washington DC Radio. Mass terror of the Stalinist era.

11 Oct 1993 – Underworld of Russian and Italian crime pacts. The Times UK. Russian ties with the mafia, drugs and nuclear.

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

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

1994 – David Holloway. Stalin and the bomb. The Soviet Union and atomic energy 1939-54. New Haven Yale uni press.

1994 – Dimitri Volkogonov. Lenin, a new biography. Harold Shukman. New York Free press.

1994 – Richard Pipes. Russia under the Bolshevik regime. New York Knopf.

1994 – Organised crime in post Communist Russia. Leonid Maximenkov. Canamiesniowkki Ottawa CSIS Worldcat database.

2 March 1994 – Spy scandals revive cold war chill. Ian Black. David Hearst. The Guardian UK.

April 1994 – T R Ravindranathan. The legacy of Stalin and Stalinism. A historiographical survey of the literature 1930-60. Canadian journal of history.

Sept 1994 – V P Popov. State terror in Soviet Russia 1923-53. Soviets and their interpretors. Russian Social Science review.

Dec 1994 – Foreign journalists met in Grozny, capital of Chechnya. Russian president Boris Yelsin and defence minister Pavel Grachov threatened to attack the city, to quell the regions independence. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

28 May 1995 – 7.5 quake Neftegorsk 2,000 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1996 – Vladislav Zubok. Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin’s cold war, from Stalin to Khrushchev. Cambridge mass Harvard uni press.

1996 – Weapons proliferation and the Russian military. Graham Hall Turbiville. USAF institute for security. Colorado Worldcat database.

1996 – Vojtech Mastny. The cold war and Soviet insecurity. The Stalin years.

1996 – Stalin, a Biography based on new documents from Russia's secret archives. New York Doubleday. Worldcat database.

1996-2000 – Putin’s biography was published in Feb 2000. 1996 many Russians got poorer, the population lived below the poverty line. Soup kitchens for emergencies. Food and clothing. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

19 June 1996 – Mass graves found in Belarus. The Independent UK. Mass graves with 10,000 people, who were killed by the Nazis in World War Two.Belarus on the outskirts of Minsk.

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 Moscow's cold war. WC Wohlforth. Diplomatic history, the massive archives are still inaccessible.

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

1997 – Russian organized crime. William H Webster. CSIS global organized crime project. Center for strategic and international studies Washington DC Worldcat database.

1997-2006 – On 7 May 2000 Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as president of Russia. Contract killing of deputy mayor who was gunned down in 1997. On 23 Nov 2006 Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital, 41 years old an FSB officer. polonium. Vladimir Putin was appointed head of the FSB August 1998. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

5 Oct 1997 – Russian spies join the mafia. Sunday Mail Glasgow Scotland UK.

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

March 1998 – Leonid Gibianskii. The Soviet bloc and the initial stage of the cold war. CWIHP bulletin issue 10.

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.

1999 – Sergo Beria. Beria my father. Inside Stalin’s Kremlin.

1999 – Explosives at an apartment in Dagestan, the city of Volgodansk and two districts of Moscow, four bombings killing more than 300 people and wounding scores more. (Putin’s Labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

1999 – Five heart attacks that Yeltsin suffered during his presidency. The FSB, successors to the KGB, seized power. In June 1999 he appointed Putin as PM. Putin’s Presidency of Russia began on 31 Dec 1999. (Putin’s Labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

1999 – The second Chechen war was launched by Vladimir Putin as PM. A Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, was writing articles and books, she was seized in Chechnya by Russian troops and threatened with rape and execution then released. Only the poorest Russians youths ended up in Chechnya. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

1999 – Dmitri Simei. After the collapse. Russia seeks its place as a great power.

Aug 1999 – Mid 1990s by this time Putin was head of Russia’s secret police. By this time Russian millionaires, of whom Putin no doubt was one. On 9 Aug 1999 Boris Yeltsin named Vladimir Putin PM of Russia. For three weeks Moscow and other Russian centres were terrorised by explosions 31 Aug 1999 in a crowded shopping mall the centre of Moscow one person died and more than 30 were inured. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

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).

20 Aug 1999 – Ukraine destroys 600kg cocaine haul. BBC London. Worth 500 million dollars.

Sept 1999 – An explosion bought down a large part of an apartment block in the southern city of Buynaksk near Chechnya. 64 people were killed 146 injured. 23 children were included. 8 Sept 1999 a giant blast neighbourhood outside Moscow city centre, a densely populated centre city block was ripped in half. 72 apartments were obliterated. 100 people died and 700 injured. (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

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 – 14 Sept 1999 another explosion brought down another building on the outskirts of Moscow. Eight story brick building 124 people died and 7 injured. 16 Sept 1999 a truck bomb in the streets in Volgodonsk a city in southern Russia 19 people died and more than 1.000 people were injured. 22 Sept 1999 Chechens blamed police who were detaining hundreds of innocent men (The man with no face. Masha Gesse ©2012 UK).

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).

24 Sept 1999 – 620,000 social or orphans in Russia. The Irish Times Dublin.

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

2000 – Russian organised crime and corruption, Putin’s challenges. Global organised crime project. William Webster. Arnawd De Borchoawe. Frank J Cilluffo. CSIS global organised crime project. Washington DC centre for strategic and international studies. Worldcat database.

14 Jan 2000 – Bogged down in Chechnya, Russia’s cold war rhetoric and the nuclear option. Ian Taylor The Guardian UK.

1 May 2000 – The plight of Russian orphans. Russian Life. Orphans and children, birth mothers.

17 Nov 2000 – Russia’s latest cold war. The Guardian UK.

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

2001 – The threat of Russian organised crime. James O Finckenauer. Voronin. National institute for justice US. Worldcat database.

2001 – Peter Holquist. The extract, to exterminate population statistics and population politics in late Soviet Russia. Ronald G Suny. Terry Martin. Oxford uni press.

16 Aug 2001 – A Syrian delegation visited Moscow to purchase new weapons, including S-300 missiles. (al Hayah UK reports say Syria is negotiating to buy S-300 missiles from Russia FBIS).

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

2002 – Chechen militants stormed a Moscow theatre taking several hundred people hostage. Russian special forces pumped opiate gas into the building, rushed in and shot the terrorists dead, 129 hostages died too. (Putin’s labyrith. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

2002 – David Hoffman. The Oligarchs, wealth and power in the new Russia. New York Public affairs.

2002 – Slava Gerovitch. From newspeak to cyberspeak, a history of Soviet cybernetics.

2002 – Alexander N Yakovlev. A century of violence in Soviet Russia.

2002 – William R Trotter. The winter war. The Russo Finnish war of 1939-40. London Aurum.

6 Aug 2002 – Edward Heard. The Herald. Glasgow Scotland. CIA officer who defected to the Soviet Union, in the mid 1980s has died. at his home in Moscow aged 50.

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 – Oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russias richest man, was arrested by masked Russian agents on his private plane Siberia at Novosibirsk airport. Sentenced to eight years jail and his oil company Yukos was taken by State owned Gazprom and Rosneft. (Putin’s Labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

2003 – Simon Sebag Montifiore. Stalin, the court of the red tzar.

2003 – Organized crime, prison and post Soviet societies. Anton N Oleinik. Aldershot Hart UK Brighton VT Ashgate. Worldcat database.

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).

15 May 2003 – Putin sat on board of firm in Russian mafia inquiry. Derek Scally The Irish Times 1921 Dublin.

18 Oct 2003 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky was in Saratov, a city on the Volga river. He was arrested at Novosibringk airport. Indicted and charged with 6 charges, fraud and tax evasion. Eight months later he was sent to nine years in a prison colony, then 14 years jail. (The man with no face. Mesha Gesse ©2012 UK).

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 – Qatar convicted two Russian intel officers of murdering Chechen former president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, by blowing up his car in Qatar. They were sent back to Russia and released. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

2004 – Chechen terrorists took 1,200 children parents and teachers hostage, at a school in Beslan in north Ossetia. Shooting and explosives killed 330 children, as hostages and terrorists fled the building. (Putin’s labyrinth. Steve Levine ©2008 2009 US).

24 April 2004 – Senior Chinese Communist party officer meets with Russian Communist party delegation. BBC London UK. Head of the international dept of the Chinese Communist party CCP and Russian Communist party RCP delegation Gennady Zyuganov.

26 April 2004 – Evidence of snuff films and a Russian based child porn ring website called Wonderland. Naster Fagh.

4 July 2004 – Ukraine Socialist election. BBC London UK. Congress of the Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz.

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).

1 Nov 2004 – Ukraine Socialist leader. BBC London UK. Parliament candidate Socialist leader Oleksandr Moroz.

26 Nov 2004 – More mass graves discovered in Chechnya. Children tortured to death.

26 Nov 2004 – More mass graves discovered in Chechnya, children. Kavkaz center. New mass graves

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.

13 Nov 2005 – William Browder returned to Moscow from London. He had been in Russia for nine years, but he spoke no Russian. Later he was to put on a flight back to London, his Russian visa was revoked. (The man with no face. Mesha Gesse ©2012 UK).

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.

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).

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.

20 Sept 2006 – Kevin Boscovsky missing from Russia since 20 Sept 2006. (missing persons NZ police).

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 – 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).

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 - 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.

23 May 2007 – Ukraine seizes 114 kg of heroin in Kiev. BBC London.

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 centre in the town centre 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 ).

21 Dec 2007 – Luke Harding. Putin, the Kremlin power struggle and the $40 billion fortune. Guardian.

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 Putin’s Russia and the threat to the west Palgrave.

2008 – Inside the Stalin archives. Discovering the new Russia. Jonathan Brent. New York Atlas London Turnaround. Worldcat database.

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.

2008-2009 – Putin’s Labyrinth. Spies, murder and the dark heart of the new Russia. Steve Levine. Random house. ISBN 978-0-8129-7841-4.

2008-2009 – On 24 Nov 2008 Sergei Magnitsky was arrested, Moscow jails. On 16 Nov 2009 Sergei Magnitsky died in prison aged 37. He died of peritonitis, and was denied medical treatment. (The man with no face. Mesha Gesse ©2012 UK).

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).

18 March 2008 – Alice Danovna O’Mara Australian Russian nationality. Place of disappearance Russia. When she was two years old.

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)

11 Oct 2008 – Chechnya Caucases 13 people killed damaged hospitals schools and other buildings. Timeline of earthquakes.

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 Asia Times online ltd.

1 July 2009 – Russian Communist party chief, Chinese Communist party delegates. BBC London UK. Xinhua. Russian Communist party chief Gennady Zyuganov.

2 July 2009 – Casinos close down in Russia. Townsville Bulletin QLD Australia. Casino and slot machines in Moscow.

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).

2010 – Beloved children of the Soviet republic. Tatiana M Smirnova. Russian studies in history.

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

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

26 Sept 2011 – The identification of the Romanovs. NCBI pub med. In the mid 1970s mass graves of the Romanov family was discovered, minus two children.

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.

2012 – The man without a face. The unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin. Masha Gessen. KGB operative. Granta publications London UK. ISBN 978-1-84708-149-0.

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 – Russians 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 – Russia’s 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.

12 Oct 2013 – Russian mafia hit in St Petersburg. You Tube. Catches crime boss, gun in paper bag, shoots him once.

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

2014 – A spy in the archives. A memoir of cold war Russia. Sheila Fitzpatrick.

7 April 2014 – Russia a poison state running on dirty cash. Mallick Toronto Canada. Putin’s KGB, crime bosses, mafia state.

17 April 2014 – Washington Post. Putin amplifies anti Western propaganda.

20 May 2014 – New revelations on KGB spy Philby recall cold war tensions. SP Times Russia. Vadim Mazim head of Air France KLM in St Petersburg.

17 June 2014 – The Zhivargo affair. The Kremlin 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.

3 Sept 2014 – Human bones found on a central Moscow street. The Moscow Times. Petrovsky boulevard. Trubnaya metro station. Interfax news agency.

4 Sept 2014 – U Report. US lines up Russia sanctions, opposes Crimea secession. Julian Kanaus. Visa bans. International law.

19 Sept 2014 – Zee news India. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says sanctions violate principles of WTO.

24 Sept 2014 – RT RIA Novoti. Russian govt to protect anti corruption whistleblowers, report to police or media. Will get lawyers. Vladimir Fedorenko. State Duma of Russian federation.

31 Oct 2014 – 1917 revolution in Russia. Socialist party. Marxists, the first Socialist revolution. Workers and unions. LA Times.

4 Nov 2014 – Communist parties from former Soviet Union countries. Belarus news. Minsk, 3 Nov 2014. Support to Ukraine’s Communists. Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Russia is Gennady Zyuganov.

5 Nov 2014 – The Guardian UK. Finland warns of new cold war over failuer to grasp situation in Russia. Finnish PM Alexander Stubb. K David Cameron. Simon Tisdall, Helsinki.

11 Nov 2014 – New York Times. Russian news agency expands global reach. Andrew Roth. Today’s info wars.

11 Nov 2014 – Russia launches news service to fight propaganda, The Nation. State funded foreign news service. Alternative interpretation of global events.

11 Nov 2014 – Prague Post. Czech. Gorbachev warns of a new cold war, which may have already begun.

11 Nov 2014 – Escalating cold war between Russia and NATO. News Australia. Icy cold war.

12 Nov 2014 – BD live. Editorial. Putin evokes fears of a new cold war.

14 Nov 2014 – Putin’s disinformation matrix. Wall Street Journal. RT.

18 Nov 2014 – Sydney Morning Herald. Russian espionage at cold war levels. Diplomats expelled for spying. tit for tat.

3 Dec 2014 – Historic films from the Russian state archives to be released worldwide. Tsar Nicholas. Russia beyond the headlines. Romanov’s and Gulag 1930s.

4 Dec 2014 – Putin, total amnesty for funds entering Russia RT. Russians returning to Russia don’t have to say where they got the money from.

5 Dec 2014 – Putin and the West. The Herald Scotland UK. New Cold War. Imperialism? Putin as a former KGB. Barclay McBain.

5 Dec 2014 – Mikhail Fradkov, head of Russia’s intel service. FSB Federal Security services. Russia’s spy chief. Falling rubble and oil prices blamed on the West.

14 Dec 2014 – Russia vows retaliation if US imposes more sanctions. Times of Oman NDTV. Moscow, US senators and a bill for more sanctions against Russia. Lethal US military aid for Ukraine.

21 Dec 2014 – Russia is challenged by 4 global mafia cartels. Sputnik. 4 or 5 multi cartel global mafia in corporate cartels. 4 of them are working against Russia.

30 Dec 2014 – Fox news AP. Russia criticises Ukraine deal to buy US nuclear fuel, says it could trigger an accident. US Westinghouse to replace supplies on Russian reactors. Soviet reactors and US fuel.

11 Jan 2015 – Russia bans transvestites, transsexuals, paedophiles and kleptomaniacs from driving. For “disorders” South China morning post. Time.

27 Jan 2015 – Litvenko inquiry accuses Putin of running a Mafia state. The Guardian UK. Ben Emerson, London. The Kremlin and organise crime.

March 2015 – The Holocaust history learning site. To this day mass graves are still being found in Russia, of Jews killed by the SS. Gypsies too, the final number may never be known.

5 March 2015 – Russia denounces the arrival of US military in Ukraine. LA Times. Carol J Williams. The US Russia relationship is at the lowest point since then end of the Cold War. It could get worse.

23 March 2015 – A suspected Italian mafia was freed in St Petersburg, despite an Interpol order. The Moscow Times. Nicola Di Mauro, aged 33, was detained at a pizzeria.

5 June 2015 – Firstpost.com. Ukraine on full alert. Poroshenko warns of full scale Russian invasion.

18 June 2015 – Greek leader Tsipras to attend the economic forum in St Petersburg on 18 June 2015. The same day as the Eurogroup meeting in Luxembourg. (Suzanne Lynch. The Irish Times 5 June 2015).

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