FSB agents have foiled a terrorist plot on Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, authorities said Thursday, accusing Chechen separatists and Georgia of jointly masterminding the plans. FSB agents have foiled a terrorist plot on Sochi, host of the...

... to terrorist cells in Abkhazia only calls attention to Sochi's vulnerability to North Caucasus terrorist networks. You would think that Russia would be playing the threat down. It's almost as if this scenario were written in Tbilisi, not Moscow. The FSB has provided no proof that Umarov, who is the leader of the terrorist group Caucasus Emirate, has any connections to Georgian security forces. Umarov is wanted by the U.S. State Department, which has a $5 million bounty on his head. The United States...

... Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Federal Guard Service — have declared their incomes for 2011, and, in contrast to other government officials, most don't own vehicles and are the main breadwinners for their families. The head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, earned 4.6 million rubles ($158,000) in 2011 — about the same as he earned the previous year. According to his public declaration, his personal property consists of a 99-square-meter apartment, a garage and two parking...

... unclear when they will be delivered. Boeing declines to comment on delivery times to specific customers, but says about half the 75 to 82 new-model planes it plans to build this year will be Dreamliners. The launch of the 787 flights came a day after FSB and Investigative Committee agents raided three of Domodedovo's divisions. Investigators spent several hours searching through office documents at the airport Wednesday and confiscated computers, hard disks and flash drives, Kommersant reported. A...

... starters, the Federal Security Service should pay particular attention to Khasavov. After all, the man promised to "fill the city with blood," and the security services should know whether he is planning to back up those words with actions. The FSB has spent a lot of resources tracking opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny, while they ignore the real threats right under their noses. Petrenko should fire Khasavov. The only possible thing that is stopping her from doing that, one...

... leader Alexei Navalny's Yandex.Money accounts for evidence of money laundering, sparking fears that the anti-corruption campaigner is being targeted for political reasons. Deputy Ilya Kostunov, 31, said Wednesday that he sent an official request to the FSB and the Federal Financial Monitoring Service after receiving documents from a former Yandex.Money employee that he said showed evidence of money laundering on Navalny's behalf. Kostunov also asked the agencies to check whether it was legal for Navalny's...

... other's countries. These officers are patriots of their nations but are united by the same goal: to find solutions to our common problems. Russian members include former Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov, former GRU head Valentin Korabelnikov and former FSB deputy head Anatoly Safonov. U.S. members include the former commander-in-chief of Strategic Command, General Eugene Habiger, and the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Michael Maples. The Elbe Group has met three times...

... politically motivated. On Friday, Udaltsov is scheduled to appear in court in Ulyanovsk, where a pro-Kremlin youth activist has accused him of assaulting her during a rally in April. He denies the charges. Navalny’s financing is facing a probe by the FSB and Federal Financial Monitoring Service after a United Russia Duma deputy charged that he might be accepting laundered money sent to the several Yandex.Money accounts he uses to drive his anti-corruption projects. 171293 418973 179742