Putin's ‘Reinforcement’: Why Russian Secret Service Officers Go to Belarus?
Russian secret cervices are rooting themselves in Belarus.
Russian secret service officers are sent to Belarus to take public diplomatic functions. The ‘protected’ ones.
Highest-rank intelligence officers are appointed to be ambassadors in Belarus.
Russian authorities absolutely shamelessly appoint yesterday’s officers to hold top governmental positions.
Thus, Sergei Lebedev, an army general, was appointed the Executive Secretary of CIS (the CIS Executive Committee is based in Minsk) in 2007. Before this appointment Mr. Lebedev was the Chief of Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia.
Then, Grigory Rapota became the State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus on November 25, 2011. Same as Mr. Lebedev, Mr. Rapota was an officer of Foreign Intelligence Service and hold a position of the Deputy Chief in 1994–1998.
Victior Malashenko, a graduate of Dzerzhinsky KGB school, became the Chief of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation ‘Rossotrudnichestvo’ office in Belarus.
Mr. Malashenko was a KGB officer in 1980–1991.
Furthermore, according to existing information, the Kremlin is intending to appoint Sergei Stepashin the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Belarus.
Colonel General Stepashin, who has already been the chief for the Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia, replaced a non-military Rossotrudnichestvo’s chief Alexander Surikov.
Today we may clearly see how the diplomatic bodies responsible for Russia–Belarus relations are filled with Russian secret service officers. We may arrive at a logical conclusion that this is done because ‘civil’ diplomats cannot fully perform the task Russian authorities set regarding to Belarus.
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