Who is Nikolai Patrushev (Snr)?
A deep dive and potted history..
Nikolai Patrushev, a Kremlin hawk, career intelligence officer and close associate of the Russian president. Patrushev belongs to the siloviki of Putin's inner circle. Patrushev, is the "most dangerous man in Russia" because of his "paranoid conspiracy-driven mindset."
He is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers and wields considerable influence on government policy as the head of the powerful Security Council of Russia.
The council is where Russia’s security policy is formulated, and it is the center where intelligence from Russian sources and networks from abroad are received.
Patrushev is the one who interprets that intelligence. Patrushev often gives interviews to state-owned media about his conspiratorial views of the West and what the Kremlin describes as Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
👉 His views on colour revolutions, threats that worry Moscow the most and UKRAINE.
Per the Guardian interview in 2015:
“Colour revolutions are another form of destabilisation that represent an equally serious threat – the latest iteration of which occurred in Ukraine.
It is clear that behind the campaign to destabilise Ukraine lies an attempt to manufacture an instrument with which to weaken Russia dramatically. It was with this aim in mind that the preconditions were created in Ukraine for maintaining constant tension, further developing extreme forms of nationalism and sabotaging the Minsk agreements. At the same time, the task of keeping EU member states on a short leash was fulfilled: anti-Russian sanctions and positions are imposed upon them in disregard of their [own] opinions and national interests.
“You have to look at events objectively. The US are trying to prove that Russia is party to the conflict in Ukraine, but that is not the case. Moreover, the US themselves started the conflict in Ukraine.”
In August 2021, during the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Patrushev told Izvestia newspaper that the United States had abandoned its Afghan allies, and that the reason was the incompetent work of the intelligence services of the United States, Britain and other NATO countries and the misplaced belief of the West in the correctness of its decisions. He predicted that the United States would also abandon its allies in Ukraine:
"...Kyiv is obsequiously serving the interests of its overseas patrons, striving to get into NATO. But was the ousted pro-American regime in Kabul saved by the fact that Afghanistan had the status of a principal U.S. ally outside NATO? (No). A similar situation awaits supporters of the American choice in Ukraine."
In early November 2021, CIA Director William Burns and U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan met in Moscow with Patrushev and informed him that they knew about Russia's invasion plans. Burns warned that if Putin proceeded down this path, the West would respond with severe consequences for Russia. Sullivan recounted that Patrushev was undeterred and "supremely confident" that the invasion was going to succeed. However, in late January 2022, just before the invasion, Patrushev publicly denied that Russia was prepared to attack Ukraine.
On April 26, 2022, Patrushev gave an interview to the state Russian newspaper “Rossiskaya gazeta. He began with his favorite topic – the evil intentions of the West in general and the United States in particular. Patrushev said that while other countries are intimidated by the U.S. and "can’t even raise their heads,” Russia has “not only dared, but publicly declared that it would not play by the imposed rules” of the U.S.
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A deep dive and potted history..
Nikolai Patrushev, a Kremlin hawk, career intelligence officer and close associate of the Russian president. Patrushev belongs to the siloviki of Putin's inner circle. Patrushev, is the "most dangerous man in Russia" because of his "paranoid conspiracy-driven mindset."
He is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest advisers and wields considerable influence on government policy as the head of the powerful Security Council of Russia.
The council is where Russia’s security policy is formulated, and it is the center where intelligence from Russian sources and networks from abroad are received.
Patrushev is the one who interprets that intelligence. Patrushev often gives interviews to state-owned media about his conspiratorial views of the West and what the Kremlin describes as Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
👉 His views on colour revolutions, threats that worry Moscow the most and UKRAINE.
Per the Guardian interview in 2015:
“Colour revolutions are another form of destabilisation that represent an equally serious threat – the latest iteration of which occurred in Ukraine.
It is clear that behind the campaign to destabilise Ukraine lies an attempt to manufacture an instrument with which to weaken Russia dramatically. It was with this aim in mind that the preconditions were created in Ukraine for maintaining constant tension, further developing extreme forms of nationalism and sabotaging the Minsk agreements. At the same time, the task of keeping EU member states on a short leash was fulfilled: anti-Russian sanctions and positions are imposed upon them in disregard of their [own] opinions and national interests.
“You have to look at events objectively. The US are trying to prove that Russia is party to the conflict in Ukraine, but that is not the case. Moreover, the US themselves started the conflict in Ukraine.”
In August 2021, during the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Patrushev told Izvestia newspaper that the United States had abandoned its Afghan allies, and that the reason was the incompetent work of the intelligence services of the United States, Britain and other NATO countries and the misplaced belief of the West in the correctness of its decisions. He predicted that the United States would also abandon its allies in Ukraine:
"...Kyiv is obsequiously serving the interests of its overseas patrons, striving to get into NATO. But was the ousted pro-American regime in Kabul saved by the fact that Afghanistan had the status of a principal U.S. ally outside NATO? (No). A similar situation awaits supporters of the American choice in Ukraine."
In early November 2021, CIA Director William Burns and U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan met in Moscow with Patrushev and informed him that they knew about Russia's invasion plans. Burns warned that if Putin proceeded down this path, the West would respond with severe consequences for Russia. Sullivan recounted that Patrushev was undeterred and "supremely confident" that the invasion was going to succeed. However, in late January 2022, just before the invasion, Patrushev publicly denied that Russia was prepared to attack Ukraine.
On April 26, 2022, Patrushev gave an interview to the state Russian newspaper “Rossiskaya gazeta. He began with his favorite topic – the evil intentions of the West in general and the United States in particular. Patrushev said that while other countries are intimidated by the U.S. and "can’t even raise their heads,” Russia has “not only dared, but publicly declared that it would not play by the imposed rules” of the U.S.
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Indeed, the Russian government has been true to its word as evidenced by the brutal war it is waging against Ukraine and its people, which is in flagrant violation of all conventions of war. During the interview, Patrushev talks about a made up “criminal community who fled Ukraine” and “who are now engaged in the widespread business of the sale of orphans taken out of Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, the West, Patrushev asserts, “has already revived the shadow market for the purchase of human organs from the socially vulnerable segments of the Ukrainian population for clandestine transplant operations for European patients.” The West, Patrushev continues, “is giving support to Ukrainian neo-Nazis, by continuing to supply Ukraine with weapons.”
Patrushev then quotes Putin, who called the West an “empire of lies” once sanctions had been imposed. In Patrushev’s world view, the West seeks to reduce the “world’s population in various ways.” One of which is the creation of “an empire of lies, involving the humiliation and destruction of Russia and other objectionable states.”
In October 2022, Patrushev accused the United States and its allies of wanting to "fight to the last Ukrainian". He said that Anglo-Saxons "are exploiting Ukraine as an instrument of struggle with our country ... The goal is to suppress Russia, retain their imaginary supremacy, keep their unipolar world, ensure themselves the opportunity to live at the expense of others.
In November 2022, Patrushev accused the West of inciting Ukraine to attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and of assisting in the production of a "dirty bomb". He also accused the United States of wanting to recruit terrorists from Afghanistan and use them in the fight against Russia in Ukraine. He claimed that the West wants to destabilize the world to maintain its global dominance, saying that the "reckless policy of Washington, London, and their allies resulted in bloody adventures in the Balkans, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine, which have already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
In January 2023, he claimed that Russia was fighting NATO in Ukraine and that the West was trying to destroy Russia.
In February 2023, during a meeting with CCP Politburo member Wang Yi in Moscow, Patrushev claimed that "the bloody events in Ukraine staged by the West" are just one example of the West's attempts to maintain its global dominance.
In May 2023, Patrushev blamed the United States and Ukraine for the number of attacks in western Russia and said that "the terrorist attacks committed in Russia are accompanied by an information campaign prepared in advance in Washington and London, designed to destabilise the socio-political situation, and to undermine the constitutional foundations and sovereignty of Russia."
On 15 September 2023, Patrushev claimed that Russia had identified and "neutralized" hundreds of foreign spies in recent years. In September 2023, he met the Chinese foreign minister in Moscow for the annual security talks.[54] On 10 October 2023, he arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
On 22 December 2023, The Wall Street Journal cited sources within the Western and Russian intelligence agencies as saying that the Wagner Group plane crash was orchestrated by Patrushev. The paper alleged that Patrushev presented to Putin a plan to assassinate Yevgeny Prigozhin in August 2023, which led to intelligence officials inserting a bomb under the wing of Prigozhin's plane during pre-departure safety checks.[57]
In March 2024, Patrushev claimed that Ukraine was behind the Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow.
On 12 May 2024, Putin nominated outgoing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to replace Patrushev as the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, effective as of 14 May 2024.
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Meanwhile, the West, Patrushev asserts, “has already revived the shadow market for the purchase of human organs from the socially vulnerable segments of the Ukrainian population for clandestine transplant operations for European patients.” The West, Patrushev continues, “is giving support to Ukrainian neo-Nazis, by continuing to supply Ukraine with weapons.”
Patrushev then quotes Putin, who called the West an “empire of lies” once sanctions had been imposed. In Patrushev’s world view, the West seeks to reduce the “world’s population in various ways.” One of which is the creation of “an empire of lies, involving the humiliation and destruction of Russia and other objectionable states.”
In October 2022, Patrushev accused the United States and its allies of wanting to "fight to the last Ukrainian". He said that Anglo-Saxons "are exploiting Ukraine as an instrument of struggle with our country ... The goal is to suppress Russia, retain their imaginary supremacy, keep their unipolar world, ensure themselves the opportunity to live at the expense of others.
In November 2022, Patrushev accused the West of inciting Ukraine to attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and of assisting in the production of a "dirty bomb". He also accused the United States of wanting to recruit terrorists from Afghanistan and use them in the fight against Russia in Ukraine. He claimed that the West wants to destabilize the world to maintain its global dominance, saying that the "reckless policy of Washington, London, and their allies resulted in bloody adventures in the Balkans, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine, which have already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
In January 2023, he claimed that Russia was fighting NATO in Ukraine and that the West was trying to destroy Russia.
In February 2023, during a meeting with CCP Politburo member Wang Yi in Moscow, Patrushev claimed that "the bloody events in Ukraine staged by the West" are just one example of the West's attempts to maintain its global dominance.
In May 2023, Patrushev blamed the United States and Ukraine for the number of attacks in western Russia and said that "the terrorist attacks committed in Russia are accompanied by an information campaign prepared in advance in Washington and London, designed to destabilise the socio-political situation, and to undermine the constitutional foundations and sovereignty of Russia."
On 15 September 2023, Patrushev claimed that Russia had identified and "neutralized" hundreds of foreign spies in recent years. In September 2023, he met the Chinese foreign minister in Moscow for the annual security talks.[54] On 10 October 2023, he arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
On 22 December 2023, The Wall Street Journal cited sources within the Western and Russian intelligence agencies as saying that the Wagner Group plane crash was orchestrated by Patrushev. The paper alleged that Patrushev presented to Putin a plan to assassinate Yevgeny Prigozhin in August 2023, which led to intelligence officials inserting a bomb under the wing of Prigozhin's plane during pre-departure safety checks.[57]
In March 2024, Patrushev claimed that Ukraine was behind the Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow.
On 12 May 2024, Putin nominated outgoing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to replace Patrushev as the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, effective as of 14 May 2024.
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👉 His known beliefs..
Patrushev considers the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine to have been started by the United States and believes that the United States "would much prefer that Russia did not exist at all."
The Guardian ran an article about his views in July 2015, saying his country is under threat – from terrorists, from colour revolutions and, particularly, from America. Ahead of a recent conference to discuss global instability, Patrushev spoke to Kommersant about civil liberties, Syria, and western aggression. He says that global instability is growing precisely because the west continually seeks to solve its problems at the expense of others. This has led to sovereignty and territorial integrity being undermined in a series of Middle Eastern and North African countries. That, in turn, gave extremists and terrorists the opportunity to gather their forces and entrench their positions.
The consequences of the spread of chaos across the world are now entering a new phase. We have witnessed a highly dangerous development whereby extremist cells operating in different regions of the world unite under the auspices of the so-called Islamic State (Isis), which is in fact a terrorist organisation created from one of the branches of al-Qaida.
This pseudo-government has secured the allegiance of such odious groups as Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabaab in Somalia and part of the Taliban movement in Pakistan. A whole string of terrorist organisations in central Asia and the north Caucasus have also sworn loyalty to Isis, including the Turkistan Islamic Party and Caucasus Emirate.
👉 He opined “anti-terrorist coalitions forged by the US are essentially being used to intervene militarily in the affairs of sovereign states.
You can see this in Syria where the attempt to depose the lawful president, Bashar al-Assad, resulted in support being leant to opposition forces. That explains why airstrikes on Isis positions occur only intermittently. It just so happens that if the terrorists are fighting against Assad, they can be considered legitimate, whereas if they harm American interests, as, for instance, in Iraq, they must be annihilated. [The Americans] define which terrorists you can parlay or have dealings with, and which not, solely on the basis of their own interests.
I would like to underline the fact that fighting international terrorism as a single country or narrow coalition is ineffective by definition. Terrorism cannot be defeated alone or by separate groups because it doesn’t obey neatly defined geographical boundaries and can strike these groups without warning. In this regard, Russia is prepared to cooperate with the security services of any country on any continent, including the US.
Countering terrorism is a task for the whole international community without exception. For any state today to believe that it can remain on the sidelines, unaffected by this threat, is naïve. Russia insists on principle that the UN and its security council should take on the role of chief coordinator in resisting terrorism.
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Patrushev considers the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine to have been started by the United States and believes that the United States "would much prefer that Russia did not exist at all."
The Guardian ran an article about his views in July 2015, saying his country is under threat – from terrorists, from colour revolutions and, particularly, from America. Ahead of a recent conference to discuss global instability, Patrushev spoke to Kommersant about civil liberties, Syria, and western aggression. He says that global instability is growing precisely because the west continually seeks to solve its problems at the expense of others. This has led to sovereignty and territorial integrity being undermined in a series of Middle Eastern and North African countries. That, in turn, gave extremists and terrorists the opportunity to gather their forces and entrench their positions.
The consequences of the spread of chaos across the world are now entering a new phase. We have witnessed a highly dangerous development whereby extremist cells operating in different regions of the world unite under the auspices of the so-called Islamic State (Isis), which is in fact a terrorist organisation created from one of the branches of al-Qaida.
This pseudo-government has secured the allegiance of such odious groups as Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabaab in Somalia and part of the Taliban movement in Pakistan. A whole string of terrorist organisations in central Asia and the north Caucasus have also sworn loyalty to Isis, including the Turkistan Islamic Party and Caucasus Emirate.
👉 He opined “anti-terrorist coalitions forged by the US are essentially being used to intervene militarily in the affairs of sovereign states.
You can see this in Syria where the attempt to depose the lawful president, Bashar al-Assad, resulted in support being leant to opposition forces. That explains why airstrikes on Isis positions occur only intermittently. It just so happens that if the terrorists are fighting against Assad, they can be considered legitimate, whereas if they harm American interests, as, for instance, in Iraq, they must be annihilated. [The Americans] define which terrorists you can parlay or have dealings with, and which not, solely on the basis of their own interests.
I would like to underline the fact that fighting international terrorism as a single country or narrow coalition is ineffective by definition. Terrorism cannot be defeated alone or by separate groups because it doesn’t obey neatly defined geographical boundaries and can strike these groups without warning. In this regard, Russia is prepared to cooperate with the security services of any country on any continent, including the US.
Countering terrorism is a task for the whole international community without exception. For any state today to believe that it can remain on the sidelines, unaffected by this threat, is naïve. Russia insists on principle that the UN and its security council should take on the role of chief coordinator in resisting terrorism.
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👉 His views as terrorism the main threat to Russia and its neighbours:
Patrushev claimed that “terrorism” i.e anti-Putin resistance, is one of the main threats to the FSB backed Kremlin under Putin. “In 2014, the so-called Khorasan emirate was formed as part of Isis, including territory in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The avowed goal of the terrorists is to overthrow lawful governments and implant Sharia law. They intend to form several governments in central Asia that will establish ties with the region’s radical Islamist organisations.
They are focusing their efforts, first of all, on young people and national minorities, partly through the internet. Their rank-and-file followers are interested not only in religious rhetoric but also money. Cases of Russian and central Asian citizens swelling the ranks of the terrorists have become more common. Many are now fighting in Syria. But they will represent the greatest threat when they return home.”
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Patrushev claimed that “terrorism” i.e anti-Putin resistance, is one of the main threats to the FSB backed Kremlin under Putin. “In 2014, the so-called Khorasan emirate was formed as part of Isis, including territory in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The avowed goal of the terrorists is to overthrow lawful governments and implant Sharia law. They intend to form several governments in central Asia that will establish ties with the region’s radical Islamist organisations.
They are focusing their efforts, first of all, on young people and national minorities, partly through the internet. Their rank-and-file followers are interested not only in religious rhetoric but also money. Cases of Russian and central Asian citizens swelling the ranks of the terrorists have become more common. Many are now fighting in Syria. But they will represent the greatest threat when they return home.”
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👉 Speaking of “terrorists” strategy, he divulges perhaps his own mimicking of his likely strategy in Ukraine:
“Terrorist organisations generally plant these people in so-called sleeping cells. As locals, they are able to integrate into society completely, appearing to observe laws and norms. But when it comes to crunch time, terrorist leaders are able to use these “law-abiding citizens” to prepare or carry out attacks. This sort of threat hangs over not only Russia and its neighbours, but also over most countries in eastern and western Europe. [Leaders] there have grasped this and are in the process of amending legislation to bolster the powers of the security services.
It is important, of course, to find the golden mean and not to use the fight against terrorism to infringe citizens’ rights and liberties, as is happening in a range of countries where the population has been subject to indiscriminate wiretaps, and has found their personal life and personal space openly interfered with.”
👉 On cooperation with the US:
“We never broke off cooperation with other countries’ security services, including those of the United States. Where we say that Assad is a lawfully elected president, the United States believe that he is evil and must be removed from power. The US support the Syrian opposition in order to achieve this aim. We say that the opposition there is very diverse: there is a moderate opposition, but it doesn’t represent the majority, and there is the aggressive opposition, which includes supporters of Isis. They should never be supported. The US formerly maintained contacts with Isis, believing that it didn’t represent a threat to them.
They later changed their tune. But Isis had already turned into the [world’s] most powerful terrorist organisation.”
👉The Balkans War Lord from 2016
Following the October 2016 coup d'état plot failure in Montenegro, Patrushev was cited by experts, such as Mark Galeotti, as the Kremlin's point man for the Balkans, which was interpreted as indicating Russia's increasingly hardline approach to the region as well as the latter's growing importance in Russia's foreign policy strategy.
Honored Employee of the Security Agencies of the Russian Federation. Doctor of Law. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov (05/07/2009, as part of a team; for the development of a training manual “Fundamentals of special training for employees of the federal security service agencies sent to the zone of counter-terrorism operations in the territory North Caucasus", making a significant contribution to strengthening the defense capability of the state), the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Reported by Politico in June 2017, “Patrushev is definitely one of those people who think Russia is in an existential struggle for its survival” — Mark Galeotti, expert on the Russian security services. The former spy’s involvement indicates a more hard-line Russian approach to the region.
“Patrushev is definitely one of those people who think Russia is in an existential struggle for its survival,” Galeotti added. “It’s a Cold-War, Manichean vision of the world. And one in which any reversals for the West are implicitly good for Russia.”
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“Terrorist organisations generally plant these people in so-called sleeping cells. As locals, they are able to integrate into society completely, appearing to observe laws and norms. But when it comes to crunch time, terrorist leaders are able to use these “law-abiding citizens” to prepare or carry out attacks. This sort of threat hangs over not only Russia and its neighbours, but also over most countries in eastern and western Europe. [Leaders] there have grasped this and are in the process of amending legislation to bolster the powers of the security services.
It is important, of course, to find the golden mean and not to use the fight against terrorism to infringe citizens’ rights and liberties, as is happening in a range of countries where the population has been subject to indiscriminate wiretaps, and has found their personal life and personal space openly interfered with.”
👉 On cooperation with the US:
“We never broke off cooperation with other countries’ security services, including those of the United States. Where we say that Assad is a lawfully elected president, the United States believe that he is evil and must be removed from power. The US support the Syrian opposition in order to achieve this aim. We say that the opposition there is very diverse: there is a moderate opposition, but it doesn’t represent the majority, and there is the aggressive opposition, which includes supporters of Isis. They should never be supported. The US formerly maintained contacts with Isis, believing that it didn’t represent a threat to them.
They later changed their tune. But Isis had already turned into the [world’s] most powerful terrorist organisation.”
👉The Balkans War Lord from 2016
Following the October 2016 coup d'état plot failure in Montenegro, Patrushev was cited by experts, such as Mark Galeotti, as the Kremlin's point man for the Balkans, which was interpreted as indicating Russia's increasingly hardline approach to the region as well as the latter's growing importance in Russia's foreign policy strategy.
Honored Employee of the Security Agencies of the Russian Federation. Doctor of Law. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, State Prize of the Russian Federation named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov (05/07/2009, as part of a team; for the development of a training manual “Fundamentals of special training for employees of the federal security service agencies sent to the zone of counter-terrorism operations in the territory North Caucasus", making a significant contribution to strengthening the defense capability of the state), the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Reported by Politico in June 2017, “Patrushev is definitely one of those people who think Russia is in an existential struggle for its survival” — Mark Galeotti, expert on the Russian security services. The former spy’s involvement indicates a more hard-line Russian approach to the region.
“Patrushev is definitely one of those people who think Russia is in an existential struggle for its survival,” Galeotti added. “It’s a Cold-War, Manichean vision of the world. And one in which any reversals for the West are implicitly good for Russia.”
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👉 His hand in snuffing out Oligarch and Kremlin leaks
According to Anastasia Vashukevich, Patrushev, who had traveled to Thailand during late February 2018, was involved in her arrest in Thailand during late February 2018. Vashukevich claimed to have evidence linking Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Anastasia Vashukevich, who also goes by the name Nastya Rybka, says she’s being held in Thailand after being arrested on February 26, along with nine other Russians, in the city of Pattaya for running so-called “sex training” sessions. Rybka has said she’s from Belarus but entered Thailand on a Russian passport, a Thai immigration official told CNN. While on the way to prison in Pattaya, Rybka published a video on her Instagram account begging US journalists to help her.
CNN quoted Nastya Rybka on 01 March 2028: “I’m ready to give you all the missing puzzle pieces, support them with videos and audios, regarding the connections of our respected lawmakers with Trump, Manafort and the rest. I know a lot. I’m waiting for your offers and I’m waiting for you in a Thai prison,” she said. Rybka has come under the spotlight in recent weeks after the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny published an investigation earlier this month on his anti-corruption foundation website into her connections with some of Russia’s richest and most powerful men.
Rybka has described herself as a seductress and has published a “diary” on “how to seduce a billionaire.” In the investigation, Navalny published video from Rybka’s Instagram account showing an August 2016 yacht trip with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko.”
When he was confronted by CNN, Deripaska called allegations that he may have been a back channel from the Kremlin to the Trump campaign “fake news.” In a post on his Instagram account, he called the most recent allegations contained in Navalny’s investigation “outrageous” and “false.”
In a statement provided to CNN, his spokesperson said he was suing Rybka and her business partner because they “maliciously made his private photos and personal information public. If someone sneaked onto your house and then published photos from it you would do the same. This information was then used by Mr. Navalny as bait to drum up the interest of an audience, and make up a story far from any truth.”
The Russian Embassy consul in Thailand, Vladimir Sosnov, told the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that 10 Russians, including Rybka, were detained for running “illegal training” sessions and were “awaiting trial and deportation from Thailand.” The deputy chief of Pattaya’s immigration police office told CNN that Rybka, who was traveling on a Russian passport, was released on bail after being held for working in Thailand without a work visa. She was subsequently detained again and is being held in custody prior to deportation because her tourist visa was revoked, police Lt. Col. Dulayapat Techapornchayasin said.
Rybka has claimed she was arrested in Thailand on the orders of the Russian government because of the videos she published with Deripaska and Prikhodko.
“If we go back to Russia we will die in Russian’s [sic] prison or they will kill us,” a post on Rybka’s Instagram account said. “This is very serious. … Please USA help us not to die from Russians!” After she was detained, a post on Rybka’s Instagram account suggested her arrest was connected to the recent arrival in Thailand of Nikolai Patrushev, the head of Russia’s Security Council and former head of the FSB. The Kremlin dismissed any such suggestion, saying “such visits are, of course, organized in advance. It is quite ridiculous to associate it with the arrests of Russian citizens in Thailand.”
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According to Anastasia Vashukevich, Patrushev, who had traveled to Thailand during late February 2018, was involved in her arrest in Thailand during late February 2018. Vashukevich claimed to have evidence linking Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Anastasia Vashukevich, who also goes by the name Nastya Rybka, says she’s being held in Thailand after being arrested on February 26, along with nine other Russians, in the city of Pattaya for running so-called “sex training” sessions. Rybka has said she’s from Belarus but entered Thailand on a Russian passport, a Thai immigration official told CNN. While on the way to prison in Pattaya, Rybka published a video on her Instagram account begging US journalists to help her.
CNN quoted Nastya Rybka on 01 March 2028: “I’m ready to give you all the missing puzzle pieces, support them with videos and audios, regarding the connections of our respected lawmakers with Trump, Manafort and the rest. I know a lot. I’m waiting for your offers and I’m waiting for you in a Thai prison,” she said. Rybka has come under the spotlight in recent weeks after the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny published an investigation earlier this month on his anti-corruption foundation website into her connections with some of Russia’s richest and most powerful men.
Rybka has described herself as a seductress and has published a “diary” on “how to seduce a billionaire.” In the investigation, Navalny published video from Rybka’s Instagram account showing an August 2016 yacht trip with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko.”
When he was confronted by CNN, Deripaska called allegations that he may have been a back channel from the Kremlin to the Trump campaign “fake news.” In a post on his Instagram account, he called the most recent allegations contained in Navalny’s investigation “outrageous” and “false.”
In a statement provided to CNN, his spokesperson said he was suing Rybka and her business partner because they “maliciously made his private photos and personal information public. If someone sneaked onto your house and then published photos from it you would do the same. This information was then used by Mr. Navalny as bait to drum up the interest of an audience, and make up a story far from any truth.”
The Russian Embassy consul in Thailand, Vladimir Sosnov, told the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that 10 Russians, including Rybka, were detained for running “illegal training” sessions and were “awaiting trial and deportation from Thailand.” The deputy chief of Pattaya’s immigration police office told CNN that Rybka, who was traveling on a Russian passport, was released on bail after being held for working in Thailand without a work visa. She was subsequently detained again and is being held in custody prior to deportation because her tourist visa was revoked, police Lt. Col. Dulayapat Techapornchayasin said.
Rybka has claimed she was arrested in Thailand on the orders of the Russian government because of the videos she published with Deripaska and Prikhodko.
“If we go back to Russia we will die in Russian’s [sic] prison or they will kill us,” a post on Rybka’s Instagram account said. “This is very serious. … Please USA help us not to die from Russians!” After she was detained, a post on Rybka’s Instagram account suggested her arrest was connected to the recent arrival in Thailand of Nikolai Patrushev, the head of Russia’s Security Council and former head of the FSB. The Kremlin dismissed any such suggestion, saying “such visits are, of course, organized in advance. It is quite ridiculous to associate it with the arrests of Russian citizens in Thailand.”
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👉Celebrating the Russian instigated Chechen wars with Putin:
On New Year’s Eve in 1999, Yeltsin made the surprise announcement that Putin would replace him as acting president. Putin won the presidential election on March 26, 2000. Shortly before Putin won the election, the cozy relationship between Putin and Patrushev was displayed when the two decided on New Years Eve in 2000 to fly to Chechnya with their wives to bolster Russian troops.
This was during the second Chechen War that occurred between 1999-2009.
Despite another turn in hostilities and bloody attacks on civilians by Russian forces on the ground, Putin and Patrushev opened two bottles of champagne and the two couples drank straight out of the bottles as they flew in the helicopter above the combat zone. After spending an hour with a unit of surprised soldiers, the group flew back to Moscow.
👉 Patrushev’s KGB history
In 1975 he graduated from the Higher Courses of the State Security Committee (KGB) under the Council of Ministers of the USSR in Minsk (Belarus). After completing the courses, he served in the counterintelligence unit of the KGB of the USSR for the Leningrad Region: junior detective, detective, head of the city department, deputy head of the district department, head of the service for combating smuggling and corruption. He completed a one-year advanced training course at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR.
After the collapse of the USSR, he continued to serve in the security agencies of the Russian Federation. From June 1992 to 1994 – Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia, Head of the Directorate of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation for Karelia. In 1994-1998 - Head of the Internal Security Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB of Russia), Deputy Head of the Department - Head of the Organizational Inspection Directorate of the Department for Organizational and Personnel Work of the FSB of Russia.
Patrushev joined the Soviet Union’s KGB in 1974 and is believed to have first met Putin — also a former intelligence officer — in the early 1990s. After 10 years as head of the FSB, the domestic successor agency to the KGB, he moved in 2008 to the Security Council, an influential body of senior officials set up by Putin.
Clans and confined groups, based on the principles of geography and the fact of personal links, have always played an important part in the highest levels of power in the Soviet Union and then in Russia. After Vladimir Putin came to power at the beginning of the 2000s, the construction of a “power vertical” has begun by appointing his associates to the key governmental positions. Control over state security and the resources of the economy also became an equally important area for him.
Under the presidency of Mr. Putin, the problems which Russia suffered from in the 1990s were not forgotten, but on the other hand, he provided the state with a certain stability and improved standards of living. For this, citizens put up with the fact that the President is increasingly concentrating power in his hands.
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Next 👉 Patrushev’s “official” glorified history
On New Year’s Eve in 1999, Yeltsin made the surprise announcement that Putin would replace him as acting president. Putin won the presidential election on March 26, 2000. Shortly before Putin won the election, the cozy relationship between Putin and Patrushev was displayed when the two decided on New Years Eve in 2000 to fly to Chechnya with their wives to bolster Russian troops.
This was during the second Chechen War that occurred between 1999-2009.
Despite another turn in hostilities and bloody attacks on civilians by Russian forces on the ground, Putin and Patrushev opened two bottles of champagne and the two couples drank straight out of the bottles as they flew in the helicopter above the combat zone. After spending an hour with a unit of surprised soldiers, the group flew back to Moscow.
👉 Patrushev’s KGB history
In 1975 he graduated from the Higher Courses of the State Security Committee (KGB) under the Council of Ministers of the USSR in Minsk (Belarus). After completing the courses, he served in the counterintelligence unit of the KGB of the USSR for the Leningrad Region: junior detective, detective, head of the city department, deputy head of the district department, head of the service for combating smuggling and corruption. He completed a one-year advanced training course at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR.
After the collapse of the USSR, he continued to serve in the security agencies of the Russian Federation. From June 1992 to 1994 – Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia, Head of the Directorate of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation for Karelia. In 1994-1998 - Head of the Internal Security Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB of Russia), Deputy Head of the Department - Head of the Organizational Inspection Directorate of the Department for Organizational and Personnel Work of the FSB of Russia.
Patrushev joined the Soviet Union’s KGB in 1974 and is believed to have first met Putin — also a former intelligence officer — in the early 1990s. After 10 years as head of the FSB, the domestic successor agency to the KGB, he moved in 2008 to the Security Council, an influential body of senior officials set up by Putin.
Clans and confined groups, based on the principles of geography and the fact of personal links, have always played an important part in the highest levels of power in the Soviet Union and then in Russia. After Vladimir Putin came to power at the beginning of the 2000s, the construction of a “power vertical” has begun by appointing his associates to the key governmental positions. Control over state security and the resources of the economy also became an equally important area for him.
Under the presidency of Mr. Putin, the problems which Russia suffered from in the 1990s were not forgotten, but on the other hand, he provided the state with a certain stability and improved standards of living. For this, citizens put up with the fact that the President is increasingly concentrating power in his hands.
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Next 👉 Patrushev’s “official” glorified history
👉 His official history, as window dressed by Kremlin propaganda:
Born on 11 July 1951 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), Patrushev is the son of a Soviet Navy officer who was also a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Patrushev graduated from Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute in 1974, and initially he worked as an engineer in the Institute's shipbuilding design bureau, but very soon afterwards, in 1975, he was recruited by the KGB.
May 1998 – Head of the Main Control Directorate (GCU) of the President of the Russian Federation. From August 11, 1998 to October 5, 1998 – Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation – Head of the State Civil Institution.
From October 6, 1998 to April 1999 - Head of the Department of Economic Security - Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia. Since April 1999 - First Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia. Since August 9, 1999 - acting, since August 17, 1999 - Director of the FSB of Russia. He replaced V.V. Putin in this post and remained in office throughout his two presidential terms (1999-2008). On 9 August 1999, a decree by President Boris Yeltsin promoted him to Director, replacing his close friend Vladimir Putin.
The United Kingdom public inquiry into the 2006 poisoning of FSB whistleblower Alexander Litvinenko found that "the FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin." In October 1999, he was elected chairman of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services of the CIS. Since November 1999 - permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
On September 4–16, 1999, a month after his appointment as director of the Russian FSB, a series of major anti-Putin attacks occurred on Russian territory - explosions of residential buildings in Buinaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk. The authorities declared the organizers of these crimes to be Chechen separatists, a claim long since debunked and it transpires this was the work of Putin to whip up anti-Chechen sentiment . The house bombings became the basis for the start of the second Chechen campaign, as Putin had intended.
By decree of the President of the Russian Federation (“closed”) dated March 15, 2000 (according to other sources, dated January 14, 2002) for courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, Colonel General Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with the presentation of a badge special distinction - the Gold Star medal. Such a good poodle.
In subsequent years, against the backdrop of the armed confrontation in Chechnya where Russia had forced it’s presence and undermined the regional government, a number of major anti-Kremlin acts were committed in Russia, including in territories where hostilities did not take place.
Among them: an explosion in the passage of the Pushkinskaya metro station in Moscow (2000), an explosion in Kaspiysk during celebrations on the occasion of Victory Day (2002), the capture of spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" in Moscow (2002), the explosion of a bus carrying employees of the Mozdok airfield (2003), terrorist attacks during the Wings rock festival in Moscow (2003), an explosion in the Kislovodsk - Mineralnye Vody train (2003), an explosion in a Moscow metro car on the Paveletskaya - Avtozavodskaya section ( 2004), explosions in the air of Tu-134 and Tu-154 aircraft (2004), explosion at the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow (2004), siege of a school in Beslan (2004).
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Next 👉 Glorious propaganda washed history continued..
Born on 11 July 1951 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), Patrushev is the son of a Soviet Navy officer who was also a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Patrushev graduated from Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute in 1974, and initially he worked as an engineer in the Institute's shipbuilding design bureau, but very soon afterwards, in 1975, he was recruited by the KGB.
May 1998 – Head of the Main Control Directorate (GCU) of the President of the Russian Federation. From August 11, 1998 to October 5, 1998 – Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation – Head of the State Civil Institution.
From October 6, 1998 to April 1999 - Head of the Department of Economic Security - Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia. Since April 1999 - First Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia. Since August 9, 1999 - acting, since August 17, 1999 - Director of the FSB of Russia. He replaced V.V. Putin in this post and remained in office throughout his two presidential terms (1999-2008). On 9 August 1999, a decree by President Boris Yeltsin promoted him to Director, replacing his close friend Vladimir Putin.
The United Kingdom public inquiry into the 2006 poisoning of FSB whistleblower Alexander Litvinenko found that "the FSB operation to kill Mr Litvinenko was probably approved by Mr Patrushev and also by President Putin." In October 1999, he was elected chairman of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services of the CIS. Since November 1999 - permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
On September 4–16, 1999, a month after his appointment as director of the Russian FSB, a series of major anti-Putin attacks occurred on Russian territory - explosions of residential buildings in Buinaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk. The authorities declared the organizers of these crimes to be Chechen separatists, a claim long since debunked and it transpires this was the work of Putin to whip up anti-Chechen sentiment . The house bombings became the basis for the start of the second Chechen campaign, as Putin had intended.
By decree of the President of the Russian Federation (“closed”) dated March 15, 2000 (according to other sources, dated January 14, 2002) for courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, Colonel General Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with the presentation of a badge special distinction - the Gold Star medal. Such a good poodle.
In subsequent years, against the backdrop of the armed confrontation in Chechnya where Russia had forced it’s presence and undermined the regional government, a number of major anti-Kremlin acts were committed in Russia, including in territories where hostilities did not take place.
Among them: an explosion in the passage of the Pushkinskaya metro station in Moscow (2000), an explosion in Kaspiysk during celebrations on the occasion of Victory Day (2002), the capture of spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" in Moscow (2002), the explosion of a bus carrying employees of the Mozdok airfield (2003), terrorist attacks during the Wings rock festival in Moscow (2003), an explosion in the Kislovodsk - Mineralnye Vody train (2003), an explosion in a Moscow metro car on the Paveletskaya - Avtozavodskaya section ( 2004), explosions in the air of Tu-134 and Tu-154 aircraft (2004), explosion at the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow (2004), siege of a school in Beslan (2004).
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Next 👉 Glorious propaganda washed history continued..
In January 2001, N.P. Patrushev headed the Operational Headquarters for managing corruption revenue to the Kremlin and “counter-terrorism” operations in the North Caucasus region (he headed it until August 2003). Since 2000, the Russian FSB has carried out a number of murderous operations to eliminate the leaders of Chechen separatists and militants, such as Khattab, Aslan Maskhadov, Abu Omar al-Seif and Shamil Basayev, whom the Russian FSB called the masterminds of most of the terrorist attacks committed in Russia. Chechens would like to settle the score with Patrushev for his murderous campaign.
In March 2003, during an exercise to develop methods of “fighting terrorists in high altitude conditions”, N.P. Patrushev personally led a group of state security officers in climbing the highest mountain in Europe - Elbrus (5642 meters). This demonstrates the heights to which the FSB and Putin will go to practice warfare against democracies? In 2004-2009 he was chairman of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation. In January 2007, two Mi-8 helicopters of the FSB of Russia with N.P. Patrushev and A.N. Chilingarov on board landed at the South Pole in Antarctica, another FSB paid jaunt to keep Patrushev a patriot with an ego for “adventure”.
In February 2006, N.P. Patrushev became the head of the National “Anti-Terrorism” Committee, which colluded with the goat loving Chechen traitors as invited militants operating in Chechnya to enter into negotiations with local or federal authorities. According to the Russian FSB, at the beginning of 2007, about five thousand members of illegal armed groups took advantage of the proposed amnesty, with the leaders paid off handsomely to bring their groups into Putins fold.
In March 2007, he was approved as a member of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation with Foreign States. In September 2007, he was appointed a member of the newly formed Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of physical culture and sports, elite sports, preparation and holding of the XXII Winter Olympic Games and XI Winter Paralympic Games in 2014 in Sochi.
On May 12, 2008, he was relieved of his post and appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. In this position, he paid a lot of attention to defending the country's interests in the Arctic and participated in the development of state policy in this region. In addition, he took part in the preparation of a new military doctrine of the state, approved by the President of the Russian Federation in February 2010. On May 12, 2024, he was relieved of his position.”
👉 Footnote on his Agriculture Failure..
Since 2016, Patrushev has been a member of PJSC Gazprom's Board of Directors. Since 2018, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Russian Agricultural Bank JSC. This #Rantallion has overseen the demise of agriculture in Russia, with food prices soaring by 34+% in the past year in reality - not the #Putin propaganda number of 0.4%
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In March 2003, during an exercise to develop methods of “fighting terrorists in high altitude conditions”, N.P. Patrushev personally led a group of state security officers in climbing the highest mountain in Europe - Elbrus (5642 meters). This demonstrates the heights to which the FSB and Putin will go to practice warfare against democracies? In 2004-2009 he was chairman of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation. In January 2007, two Mi-8 helicopters of the FSB of Russia with N.P. Patrushev and A.N. Chilingarov on board landed at the South Pole in Antarctica, another FSB paid jaunt to keep Patrushev a patriot with an ego for “adventure”.
In February 2006, N.P. Patrushev became the head of the National “Anti-Terrorism” Committee, which colluded with the goat loving Chechen traitors as invited militants operating in Chechnya to enter into negotiations with local or federal authorities. According to the Russian FSB, at the beginning of 2007, about five thousand members of illegal armed groups took advantage of the proposed amnesty, with the leaders paid off handsomely to bring their groups into Putins fold.
In March 2007, he was approved as a member of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation with Foreign States. In September 2007, he was appointed a member of the newly formed Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of physical culture and sports, elite sports, preparation and holding of the XXII Winter Olympic Games and XI Winter Paralympic Games in 2014 in Sochi.
On May 12, 2008, he was relieved of his post and appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. In this position, he paid a lot of attention to defending the country's interests in the Arctic and participated in the development of state policy in this region. In addition, he took part in the preparation of a new military doctrine of the state, approved by the President of the Russian Federation in February 2010. On May 12, 2024, he was relieved of his position.”
👉 Footnote on his Agriculture Failure..
Since 2016, Patrushev has been a member of PJSC Gazprom's Board of Directors. Since 2018, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Russian Agricultural Bank JSC. This #Rantallion has overseen the demise of agriculture in Russia, with food prices soaring by 34+% in the past year in reality - not the #Putin propaganda number of 0.4%
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12 May 2024:
Per Reuters - Putin says he is moving Patrushev to “another job” - without specifying.
This man has intimate knowledge of the indicted war criminal and his secret wealth, accumulated over decades of stealing from Russia and coercing the criminal underworld - including the $2million drugs haul that disappeared under Putins watch in St Petersburg when Putin was a 3rd rate KGB officer. Shortly thereafter Yeltsin became rich and announced the promotion of Putin.
Patrushev is either going to be given some well paid pension job as a Politburo elder - or he is a dead man walking. It will be a heart attack or some “natural” / Novichok accident - if I was a gambling man.
Which I’m not.
reuters.com/world/europe/w…
Per Reuters - Putin says he is moving Patrushev to “another job” - without specifying.
This man has intimate knowledge of the indicted war criminal and his secret wealth, accumulated over decades of stealing from Russia and coercing the criminal underworld - including the $2million drugs haul that disappeared under Putins watch in St Petersburg when Putin was a 3rd rate KGB officer. Shortly thereafter Yeltsin became rich and announced the promotion of Putin.
Patrushev is either going to be given some well paid pension job as a Politburo elder - or he is a dead man walking. It will be a heart attack or some “natural” / Novichok accident - if I was a gambling man.
Which I’m not.
reuters.com/world/europe/w…
Following a number of appeals.. they decided to reverse the censorship.
Putin dare not sideline the man who could bring the regime down - and a room full of Oligarchs who worked to undermine the 2016 US elections too.
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