David McDuff
02-27-2004, 06:31 AM
26.2.2004
Litvinenko and Kaloughin fear Russian security services in the USA
USA. Former KGB officers General Oleg Kaloughin and Lieutenant-Colonel
Alexander Litvinenko who currently live in the West, gave up their plans
to hold a
public meeting
on 14 March — the day of the Presidential Elections in Russia, near the
Russian polling station in Washington.
During the meeting organised by journalist Yaroslav Beklemishev of
Novaya Zhizn (New Life) radio station, it was planned to discuss the
situation in today’s Russia and then to found political club Pyataya
Volna (The Fifth Wave). As Litvinenko and Kaloughin stated, Russian
diplomats in Washington put pressure on organisers and sponsors of the
meeting forcing them to abandon the project.
In their statement issued yesterday, A. Litvinenko and O. Kaloughin
write that Russian authorities "are capable of using any special
measures in fear of new exposures of their criminal activities." "In
this situation, there is no guarantee that Russian security services and
their hirelings won’t carry out violent acts even on the US territory.
We feel that we have no right to subject to danger the lives and
well-being of the citizens who wished to take part in the event planned
for 14 March, and it is with a deep regret that we have to give up our
intention to speak at the meeting," state Litvinenko and Kaloughin.
Translated by Olga Sharp
PRIMA News Agency [2004-02-24-USA-35]
Litvinenko and Kaloughin fear Russian security services in the USA
USA. Former KGB officers General Oleg Kaloughin and Lieutenant-Colonel
Alexander Litvinenko who currently live in the West, gave up their plans
to hold a
public meeting
on 14 March — the day of the Presidential Elections in Russia, near the
Russian polling station in Washington.
During the meeting organised by journalist Yaroslav Beklemishev of
Novaya Zhizn (New Life) radio station, it was planned to discuss the
situation in today’s Russia and then to found political club Pyataya
Volna (The Fifth Wave). As Litvinenko and Kaloughin stated, Russian
diplomats in Washington put pressure on organisers and sponsors of the
meeting forcing them to abandon the project.
In their statement issued yesterday, A. Litvinenko and O. Kaloughin
write that Russian authorities "are capable of using any special
measures in fear of new exposures of their criminal activities." "In
this situation, there is no guarantee that Russian security services and
their hirelings won’t carry out violent acts even on the US territory.
We feel that we have no right to subject to danger the lives and
well-being of the citizens who wished to take part in the event planned
for 14 March, and it is with a deep regret that we have to give up our
intention to speak at the meeting," state Litvinenko and Kaloughin.
Translated by Olga Sharp
PRIMA News Agency [2004-02-24-USA-35]