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AND THIS, ACCORDING TO KAGARLITSKY, IS THE EMBODIMENT OF ANARCHISM? MY FOOT.
Irish Times, July 30 2014
by Daniel McLaughlin
If John le Carré were to visit the pseudo-statelet run by Russian-backed
rebels in eastern Ukraine, he might feel oddly at home with Vladimir
Antiufeyev.
The onetime British agent in le Carré would recognise a fellow survivor
of the cold war’s shadow games, and the great spy novelist would glimpse
some of his characters in the mysterious Siberian veteran of the Soviet
security services.
Antiufeyev arrived secretly in eastern Ukraine early this month before
being named deputy prime minister in charge of security affairs for the
separatist Donetsk People’s Republic. This week he became its acting
prime minister, when incumbent Alexander Borodai went home to Moscow for
“consultations”.
Antiufeyev (63) was a top security official in Latvia when it broke with
the Soviet Union, and a leader of pro-Moscow forces who tried to crush
the independence movement with deadly attacks on protesters in Riga in
January 1991. He says he fled Riga for Moscow two hours before he was
arrested, and was invited soon afterwards to establish the security
services of Transdniestria by Kremlin-backed rebels who sought to split
the region from Moldova. There – under the pseudonym Shevtsov –
Antiufeyev for 20 years crushed dissent as head of the local KGB, backed
hard-line leader Igor Smirnov and linked the isolated, unrecognised
republic with its friends and financiers in Russia.
full:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/shadowy-veteran-of-pro-russian-rebellions-in-ukraine-1.1881817
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