The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO demands from
the Federal Security Service (FSB) to render to the society
and the parliament a detailed report on investigation of all
the large-scale acts of terror beginning from explosions of
blocks of flats in Moscow in September 1999.
Now it has become absolutely clear that non-transparency
of secret services harms the security of Russian citizens.
The bad practices of concealing the circumstances of the
acts of terror lead to absolute uncontrolledness and, consequently,
irresponsibility of the secret services.
A lot of questions connected with the tragedy of hostages
in a Moscow theatre at Dubrovka and a Beslan school are sill
unanswered. And there has been virtually no information on
the circumstances of explosions in the Moscow metro in March
2010. Communication of the secret services with the society
is reduced to short victorious reports about elimination of
another bandit. These reports get less and less public trust,
as the level of security of people in Russia has remained
extremely low.
Lost human lives provide ample grounds to demand from the
FSB a detailed report on the progress in their investigation
of terrorist attacks.
We also think that the top officials of the FSB, up to the
heads of the service, should bear responsibility for the failures
in their work that led to human tragedies.
Public control over functioning of secret services, the FSB
in the first place, can make them take up such responsibility.
There has been no such control at present at all. Moreover,
the heads of the FSB spared no effort last year so that to
get wider proxies for fighting citizens and civil organisations
raising their voices against the arbitrary rule and non-transparency
of the authorities.
We demand an answer on the question about the reasons behind
the failure of the secret services to avert mass murders of
civilians.
We demand satisfactory evidence that the organizers and those
who ordered the acts of terror will not be able to bring us
new tragedies.
We demand cooperation with the society in the development
of recommendations for improvement of the work of secret services
and the law enforcement.
Only in such a way we can really punish those who is guilty
in these deaths and, which is even more important, to do out
best so that to avert such tragedies.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Chair of the YABLOKO party
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Tomorrow on January 27, YABLOKO will conduct
a mourning picket “Who will be answerable for the acts of
terror?” at Chistiye Prudi, at 12.30.
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