BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

25/01/2007

Russia's deputy FSB chief: Terrorists may enter Russia from Belarus

The power structures represented by Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, head of the Boarderguard Service of the FSB, Vladimir Pronichev, got involved into the conflict of the "union state" members, online site Khartiya'97 reports. In his yesterday's speech at the Council of Federation, quite of a sudden, he attracted the senators' attention to the transparency of the Russian and Belarusian border, calling it a "loophole" for terrorists. Russian-Belarusian "porous" border can be used by terrorists for penetrating the Russian Federation, as "it is virtually unguarded", Pronichev said.

Judging by Pronichev`s tone the situation at the borderline with Belarus was, at that moment, the most aggravated issue, according to Khartiya'97. The oil and gas war between Russia and Belarus that broke out in late 2007, yesterday passed officially beyond the frame of a specifically economic conflict, the Vremya novostei comments today.

"Boarder guards have recently prevented dozens of attempts of illegal penetration of Georgian nationals to Russia from Belarus. We do not exclude the possibility of this channel employment by terrorists and trans-boarder criminals".

Khartiya'97 is quoting Anatoly Lebedko, leader of the Belarusian Civil Party, as saying the following: "Quiet period at the Russian- Belarusian front was temporary, and now a new advancement in the information sphere was made: every day someone declares something and this must impress the opponent. A hint was made to the Belarusian authorities that if they are eager to impose rent payment for land under the pipelines, Moscow may impose elements of borderline monitoring, which would be tangible to both countries' nationals."

Source:

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1207

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